Abbey Booth is an Uplifting Personal Stylist, and founder of Stories With Clothes.

Abbey believes the colours we wear can have positive or negative effects on our wellbeing and confidence. She feels colour can be used to boost our mood and energy, provide a sense of direction or protection, and reduce anxiety.

Clothing can also boost dopamine for those with ADHD and/or Autistic.

Abbey is also a course leader for the Women’s Styling Diploma at The London College of Style, and a mother of two teenagers.

This episode explores:

-The power of colour: How we can use it to get noticed, feel a sense of direction and purpose, but also give us a sense of calm and reduce anxiety.

-The science and research about colour and what it does to the brain.

-Dopamine dressing: what is it and how we can use it, especially if we have ADHD or are Autistic.

-What is colour analysis and how is it done, including the benefits of draping.

-What are the differences we can expect when wearing colours that work for our skin tone?

-How we can use colour analysis to use colours to help our mood, confidence and wellbeing.

-Tips for ways we can add colour to our wardrobe for little, or no, cost.

-Advice and resources to find out your body shape and how to dress to accentuate your specific shape.

-How diet culture within society affects the views we have about our bodies.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Suicide, Grief, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Autism, Wellbeing, Menopause, Diet Culture and Body Shape.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree in our bio.

Abbey can be found via her website Stories With Clothes, Instagram  and TikTok.

Abbey’s Colour Blog: https://www.storieswithclothes.com/post/how-to-wear-colour

Abbey’s ‘Finding Your Waist’ Reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClnbZTMjAX7/

Abbey’s free Body Shape Guide: https://www.storieswithclothes.com/free-body-shape-guide

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Christmas can be a confusing, overwhelming and stressful time for those with ADHD and Autism.

These neurological conditions are largely ‘invisible’ and misunderstood by many, so the challenges we face are often overlooked by society during times like Christmas.

It can be mentally and even physically painful, with the festive traditions and expectations causing more stress and anxiety than we usually have.

This episode focuses on giving advice and tips on how to navigate the stressors and triggers that Christmas can bring for those with ADHD, Autism, OCD, Depression and Anxiety Disorders in particular.

*(Please note, using a new mic which picked up the heating turning on for the end half of the episode, so apologies for the background humming noise!)*

This episode explores:

-Challenges at Christmas when you have ADHD, Autism, OCD, Anxiety and Depression.

-Ideas for managing Christmas when Neurodivergent.

-The complexities of managing relationships with family, friends and partners at Christmas.

-Setting boundaries for yourself and others to reduce overstimulation.

-Social expectations and pressures, and ways to manage these.

-Christmas Parties with family, friends and also office parties and secret Santa overwhelm.

-Routine disruption that festivities bring and ways to reduce this.

-Budgeting over Christmas and ways to reduce impulse spending.

-Giving and Receiving Gifts, including ideas for reducing the risk of offending others when disliking their gifts.

- Exploring Christmas traditions to identify which can be avoided to reduce overload.

-Ways to prioritise and implement self-care during this hectic season.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about ADHD, Autism, OCD, Addiction, Stimming, RSD, Depression, Medications, Addiction, Anxiety Disorders and Masking.

Links

The written version of this episode, in more detail, can be found on my Single Parent Pessimist website:

https://singleparentpessimist.co.uk/christmas-with-adhd-and-autism/

Another useful post about managing relationships at Christmas can be found here.

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

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Louise Williams is a well-known blogger and ADHD content creator across social media and even appearing on BBC’s The One Show about late diagnosis in women.

To support this community, Louise runs a Facebook support group for late diagnosed ADHD adults and has recently opened a wellbeing gym in her local area.

Louise is a single parent to two children aged 10 and 12, and has regularly talked online about post-natal depression.

This episode explores:

-Less obvious signs of ADHD

-Stimming behaviours used to mask ADHD in childhood.

-Autism and ADHD crossover traits.

-Louise’s late diagnosis journey.

-ADHD medication, the pros and cons.

-The unmasking process after diagnosis.

-How using social media has helped Louise come to terms with her ADHD diagnosis.

-Self-diagnosing from social media content and the power of social media in helping to get a diagnosis.

-Parenting as a single mother with ADHD, including post-natal depression after pregnancies and setting boundaries for the first time once medicated.

-The grief process after late diagnosis.

-Strategies Louise uses to manage ADHD traits and dysregulation.

-Creating a business with ADHD.

-The importance of support from others with neurodivergence, forming online communities.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation ADHD, Autism, Eating Disorders, OCD, Addiction, Stimming, Body Repetitive Behaviours, Skin and Nail Picking, RSD, Post-Natal Depression, Medications, Imposter Syndrome, BPD/EUPD, PMDD and Masking.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

Louise can be found on her website, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

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Ambila Nath is a Spiritual Business Coach, entrepreneur, international speaker and award-winning magazine editor.

Known for her straight-talking spirituality, Ambila went from a high-paid corporate job to building a business based on Spirituality.

She believes the most incredible journey you can take is the one in building a relationship with yourself, which starts with healing from within.

In order to heal, firstly we need to use intuition to know what needs healing and how.

This episode explores:

-Ambila’s personal journey as a second-generation Asian woman with a corporate career, to finding a better balance by changing career and leaving her family due to cross-culture struggles.

-Why it’s important to heal from within, and how to use your intuition and manifesting to do this.

-How the Pandemic caused trauma for so many people in the long-term and ways to release this and other long-term traumas.

-Trauma healing- the various types of healing that can help.

-Types of energy in the environment (negative, positive), how they affect us and how we can change energy vibrations.

-The benefits of manifestation in most areas of life.

-How to manifest using strategies to align your energy, shift your mindset and create positive daily habits.

-How to connect with our intuition- so can listen to it and use it.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Trauma, Depression, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety and the trauma caused by the Pandemic.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree. 

For more information about Ambila’s work, visit her website, Instagram or Facebook.

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Priyanka Patel is a Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist, and was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult this year.

She is using personal and scientific knowledge to educate and raise awareness about ADHD across social media.

Priyanka is also currently campaigning to make a change within the UK Healthcare System for the Neurodivergent community.

This episode explores:

-What ADHD is and how this neurological disorder presents.

-Whether some ADHD traits can be superpowers.

-The lack of psychosocial education and therapeutic support after diagnosis.

-Priyanka’s rollercoaster ride to an ADHD Diagnosis journey

- Priyanka’s experience of ADHD and mental health stigmas within her Indian culture.

-Other stigmas including gender, ADHD and mental health and where these can occur (by health professionals, workplace, family, friends).

-The impact of various stigmas that can occur together, including Priyanka experiencing alopecia.

- The difficulties women can face when trying to get ADHD diagnosis and acceptance from society.

- Jack Vening’s distasteful article in The Guardian about ADHD and it’s potential to negatively impact on the neurodivergent community.

-ADHD medication

-The new research project Priyanka is trying to get funding for to benefit women with ADHD.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Trauma, Suicidal Ideation, Depression, Alopecia, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety and ADHD Medications.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

Priyanka can be found on TikTok and Instagram under username @littlemiss_adhd_

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Simran Sondhi is a transformation alchemist, with a mission to empower people to live by their own unique soul blueprint.

She believes our power is in the present moment.

After years of feeling stuck in a rut and not enjoying her career, Simran went through some major change and transformed her life.

Through this process, Simran became passionate about helping others to transform their lives through changing their perspectives.

Simran specialises in freeing people from their blocks, healing past traumas and uses a range of ways to do so, including trauma release techniques, Reiki, Sekhem, Bodytalk, astrology and proprietary energetic methods.

This episode explores:

- Limiting-Beliefs: What they are and how we can get healthier belief systems.

-How trauma can be stuck in our body physically and mentally, causing blockages.

- Signs of burn out, feeling stuck and having trauma to address.

-Generational and Ancestral traumas.

- What we can do if we feel stuck or at a crossroads in life, lack direction and even creativity.

- Why reaching rock bottom can be useful for growth.

-How to heal from the past and escape self-limiting beliefs.

- How to get through burnout and break out of the systems and mindsets that limit us.

- Positive changes that can be made to help have a better life, including using live foods, sunlight, nature, reparenting tools, somatic therapies, mindfulness, brain-dumping and EFT.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Trauma, Generational Family Trauma, Chronic Pain, Mental Health, ADHD, Depression, Disabilities, Trauma Release and Anxiety.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

Simran Sondhi can be contacted via her website, Facebook and Instagram.

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Maria Jones is a Special Yoga Practitioner and Therapist and mother to a teenage son.

Maria teaches chair yoga to adults and children with special needs, including physical disabilities, Autism, ADHD and mental health conditions.

She talks about the benefits Chair Yoga offers to the body and mind, and how practising within a group setting is the most powerful part of it.

Maria has Systemic Lupus, and has had dialysis and a kidney transplant, so hasn’t always been able to move her body the way that can help.

She was attracted to chair yoga to discover ways to manage her symptoms through the practice.

As she practised this form of yoga, Maria discovered other benefits for her mental health, particularly when working in groups, and how powerful this was for her wellbeing.

This episode explores:

What Special Yoga is, and the benefits it has as a particular yoga speciality for SEN.

The physical and mental benefits of Chair Yoga for those with chronic pain, disabilities, SEN and mental health conditions (includes mobility, bilateral coordination, helps memory processing and poses can create new neurological pathways).

How yoga within a group or communal setting can also benefit the nervous system, social isolation, communication and self-confidence.

The positive impact for people trying to process their newly diagnosed conditions.

The benefits of dynamic movements and how breathing techniques can encourage endorphins, similar to the effects if a high-impact cardio workout.

Examples of Chair Yoga poses.

Maria’s personal journey with chronic pain and how using Chair Yoga and Special Yoga has helped her.

The benefits of Yoga Therapy.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Multiple Sclerosis, Special Educational Needs (SEN), Chronic Pain, ADHD, Autism, Depression, Extreme Fatigue, Disabilities, Anxiety, Systemic Lupus, Dementia, Cognitive Impairments, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica and Alzheimer’s.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

Maria can be found on her website and across socials, Facebook and Instagram.

Maria’s Book- The Chair Yoga Handbook.

Maria's Pod- The Chair Yoga Podcast.

Special Yoga website.

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Could most of our health problems be in our minds?

Rachel Claire Farnsworth believes that while the symptoms of chronic pain and long-term health conditions are very real, our emotions can be responsible for some of the physical and mental health issues we can experience.

As a Transformational Life Changer, Rachel uses advanced hypnotherapy methods to access the subconscious and resolve traumatic moments from a person’s past which could be making them ill today.

During this episode we explore:

What the subconscious is and how it loves imagery.

Familial generational trauma and how it’s passed down to us and our children without intention.

How trauma and past emotional issues can affect our physical and mental health.

The ways trauma can manifest through chronic pain, anxiety and other conditions, and the areas of the body that can indicate the types of trauma we may have.

Rachel’s personal experience in supporting her child with an autoimmune condition that disappeared after releasing early childhood emotions.

Ways you can try to find and release these emotions at home.

How those with ADHD or Autism can benefit from this form of work.

Silent counselling.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, anxiety, depression, trauma, CPTSD, ADHD, Autism, chronic pain conditions and stress.

Links

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

To find out more about what Rachel does, or join her Facebook group, visit her LinkTree here. 

Rachel has co-authored a book which will be out in November, called Me Too But Never Again and is also releasing her own book Decoding the Body’s Messages.

Dolores Cannon writes about the Universe in books including Convoluted Universe. 

Julia Cannon’s book Soul Speak is mentioned within this episode can be found here. 

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Hyacinth J Myers is a Soul Alignment Coach, Life Strategist and Author, with 35 years of experience within community work, mental health and holistic therapies.

She currently works with women to help them overcome serious trauma.

Hyacinth has three children, one of which is neurodivergent and one sadly died as a baby.

During this episode she talks about how she overcame the loss of her baby, a childhood witnessing domestic violence, a sexual assault and other challenges, using 7 specific steps she created herself.

Hyacinth believes we’re not our story, we’re not broken and we’re not victims. Instead, we are soul conscious creators of our future.

This episode covers:

· The traumas and challenges Hyacinth experienced as a child, including domestic violence, growing up without her father and escaping to a refuge with her mother as a teenager.

· How meeting her birth father as an adult was the catalyst of deep change within her.

· Being sexually assaulted and then overcoming her fear of men by working with abusers in prison and seeing the souls behind the crimes.

· The challenges she faced as a solo parent and the awakening she had during a lone trip to Egypt at a time where she felt stuck in life.

· How Hyacinth overcame giving birth to premature twins, then losing one twin three weeks later and having to parent alone through grief.

· We talk about Baby Loss Awareness Week which happened during this recording, and Hyacinth offers advice and tools that helped her in the first stages of her baby loss.

· The tools she used to get through severe trauma, how she came to form her EMPOWER 7 Step Method, and what the method consists of.

· The creative outlets Hyacinth has used during the 7-step process, including journaling, photography and meditation.

*Trigger warning*

Contains talk about domestic violence, sexual assault, abortion, baby loss, trauma, emotional abuse, premature birth, grief, ADHD and neurodivergence.

Links

More information about the work Hyacinth does and her book, 7 Steps to Overcoming Adversity and Transforming Your Life, can be found on her website. 

The Babyloss Memory Box and more resources and social media from Hyacinth can be found on Hyacinth's Linktree.

Bliss Charity- parent support for babies born premature or sick.

Sands- Stillbirth and neonatal death charity.

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree.

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Iman Gatti is a mother to a four-year-old daughter, author, empowerment trainer and certified grief recovery specialist.

She endured severe childhood trauma, witnessing her father murder her mother when she was 6-years-old, and then growing up in the care system.

At 39 Iman was diagnosed with ADHD, but then found out she was diagnosed as a child, which opened up another type of grief she had to heal from.

Iman has used various grief and trauma tools to create a life she feels happy and fulfilled with.

She now works to empower people to heal from grief and trauma, with a focus on self-love and empowerment.

During this episode we explore:

Effects of undiagnosed ADHD as an adult.

How Iman processed the trauma and grief of being diagnosed as an adult, and then finding out she was diagnosed as a child too; How she reparented herself.

The things she had always done differently to others that prompted her to research ADHD symptoms.

How the ADHD diagnosis has positively changed her outlook on life and how she manages day to day activities and experiences.

The 44 types of grief that affect us, (not just death) and how we can manage these.

Advice on how to process grief, and ways to increase emotional intelligence to learn how to verbalise feelings, which can be difficult to do when neurodivergent.

*Trigger warning*

Contains talk about self-harming behaviours, murder, childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, ADHD, Autism, OCD, anxiety, grief, CPTSD and trauma.

Links

Iman can be contacted via her website, Instagram, TikTok  and Facebook.

Iman’s Books*:

Cracked Open- Never Broken (her memoir)

Fifi’s Morning Song (Children’s Book)

Fifi’s Alphabet Book (Children’s Book)

Book recommendation by Iman during the episode: When Children Grieve

Claire’s article about how to support young people with Grief that linked with a previous pod episode can be found on her website Single Parent Pessimist

To send us ideas for future episodes, or to offer to be interviewed, please complete our quick form here or contact us via Instagram or email [email protected]

To shout us a coffee, find the options on our Linktree. 

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*Contains Amazon aff link, meaning a tiny commission may be made if purchased through these links.