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🎙 My educational podcast and YouTube videos, webinars, and workshops are the place to start learning about your neurodiverse relationship dynamics.

📆  Consult with me personally for feedback and guidance about your relationship's potential for growth and repair. Get in-depth insight through relationship evaluation and neurodiversity assessment. 

❤️️ Communication is critical for connection and clarity. I developed a the world's FIRST Relationship Rescue method designed specifically for mixed neurotype couples to break the endless cycle of confusion and conflict.

CracktheCommunicationCode.com

🌐  Visit me online at JodiCarlton.com to learn more.

📱 FOLLOW ME: Facebook, Instagram and TikTok: @thejodicarlton

When a person's faith and spiritual values are used to coerce, convince, or control and manipulate, devastating harm is done. Weaponized faith is all too common, and I see the trauma it causes in so many of the men and women who contact me for help. "Scripts" about the roles of men and women, and husbands and wives, are often conveyed by well-meaning religious leaders, but then, in the neurodivergent community, applied rigidly in a relationship. Both partners often participate in reinforcing a coercive and controlling dynamic that utilizes shame, guilt, and obligation to get one or both partner's needs met - both believing they are following the beliefs of their faith. This relationship is ultimately highly dysfunctional, and can become toxic and abusive. Take a moment to listen to my conversation with Dan and Stephanie Holmes, who are Christian neurodiverse relationship specialists. This concept applies to people of all faiths and value-systems because these same dynamics occur in any relationship where beliefs and values are used to manipulate.

I am frequently asked the question "How do I stay committed to my Christian values of being compassionate and selfless without losing myself and my identity - especially when my autistic partner doesn't believe my needs are valid?"

I recently had a Q & A with Dan and Stephanie Holmes where we talk about this and so much more. Dan and Stephanie founded the International Association of NeuroDiverse Christian Marriages, LLC to bring hope, help, and possible healing to NeuroDiverse Christian Marriages. Their ministry also includes educating and equipping helping professionals, clinicians, and ministers with effective coaching and counseling strategies by first understanding and accepting the complexities of NeuroDiverse Christian Marriages.  Visit Dan and Stephanie online at: https://www.christianneurodiversemarriage.com

S2E9 In today's episode, part two with my best friend, Kathy, we have a really important conversation about toxic traits and how that's a very different thing from neurodiversity.  Kathy and I both have experienced toxic personalities in our marriages and our relationships. 

This the last episode of my summer series on communication and of sharing my personal neurodiverse relationships with you.  If you missed any of the previous episodes, go back and through Season 2 and meet my autistic daughter, Abby, and her brother, Aidan, as well as my mother.  I'm so glad they all agreed to be on the show and share our neurodiverse relationships with all of you!  It's not just about marriages - neurodiverse relationships are of all kinds!

Also, I'm taking a short break before we bring Season 3 to you (in about a month), but we will be dropping some neurodiverse relationship Q & A, and tips here for you, so stay tuned!

I am really, really excited today to have my best friend Kathy, on the show.  She is the last of the mini series this summer on communication and of me sharing my neurodiverse family and friends with you.  

This two-part episode is one of my favorite yet because Kathy and I talk about so much!  There's so much packed into these two episodes.  Kathy and I talk about our own friendship, which is a neurodiverse relationship.  We talk about her family of very different neurodiverse personalities...and as best friends do she even calls me out on something that's actually really important! We have a very good conversation about it that's going to be very relatable to so, so many of you.  You're going to want to listen up  to hear what we have to say about that.

In last week's show, during my chat with my mother, I mentioned how those of us who are neurotypical and neurodiverse speak different languages.  We have many different kinds of language...emotion, logic, social, relationship, love...and we all speak them in different kinds of ways, and with different levels of fluency.

In part two of my conversation with my mom. We talk about how we discovered neurodiversity in my own family.  It's a narrative that is so similar to many of yours.  

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🎙 My educational podcast and YouTube videos, webinars, and workshops are the place to start learning about your neurodiverse relationship dynamics.

📆  Consult with me personally for feedback and guidance about your relationship's potential for growth and repair. Get in-depth insight through relationship evaluation and neurodiversity assessment. 

🗣Communication is critical for connection and clarity. I developed a ground-breaking program for my OWN relationships and it will help you finally understand your partner and break the endless cycle of confusion and conflict.

🌐  Visit me online at JodiCarlton.com to learn more.

📱 FOLLOW ME: Facebook, Instagram and TikTok: @thejodicarlton

As we continue our summer series on communication, I took a moment to talk with my mom, Jean, about this neurodiverse family of ours.  Her perspective and her observations about discovering autism in our family is going to be so relatable to so many of you.  As a retired teacher (and she was held in high regard in our community), she thinks back to students she had who she now realizes were neurodiverse - and how she didn't understand their needs or how to communicate with them.  

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Communication is the bridge that connects us and this week we continue my summer communication series.  Today in part two of my conversation with two of the very most important people in my life, my daughter, Abby, who is autistic, and my son, Aidan, who is neurotypical, we talk about what it's been like for them as siblings in a neurodiverse relationship, but also with me as their neurotypical mom navigating parenting in a neurodiverse family. I invite you to hear what they have to say, because I think you're going to really relate to so much of it!

Today I invite you to meet MY neurodiverse family.  We have relationships with many different people in our lives...our partners, our friends, our siblings, our co-workers.  Today a colleague asked me how many people I estimate are around us every day who are neurodiverse. I told her that number is high!  Today...I'd like you to meet two of my own favorite people.

BE A GUEST ON THE SHOW: SpectrumRelationships.com/podcast

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