Be Gentle With Your Giant Heart: Self-Care, Self-Advocacy, and Reclaiming the Right to Receive with Suzy Reading

Dr Ali Bromley is a forensic psychologist, ADHD coach and LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist with twenty years' experience across mental health and criminal justice. In 2024 she won Big Brother. In this episode, she talks with Dr Emma Offord about being watched but not understood, the masks we wear to belong, and what it means to recognise your neurodivergence later in life. They discuss burnout, grief, the pressure on clinicians to stay distant, and the quiet power of finding your people. Ali spea...

In this grounded and deeply honest conversation, Lucinda Miller, clinical lead of NatureDoc and bestselling author, joins Dr Emma Offord to explore what nutrition looks like in neurodivergent life. Lucinda is ADHD, alongside two of her three children, which makes this conversation personal as well as professional. Together, Emma and Lucinda look at food, gut health, iron, sleep and histamine. They ask how to nourish neurodivergent brains without creating another set of rules that families fe...

Jolene Ironside, DL team member, integrative counsellor, ADHD coach and holistic therapist, joins Dr Emma Offord for a conversation about the body's own language, and why so many neurodivergent people were taught to stop listening to it. Jolene explains how children learn to override exhaustion, sensory overwhelm and physical discomfort just to keep pace with environments that were never built for them, and what that disconnection costs later in life: anxiety, hypervigilance, and a nervous s...

In this honest, funny and deeply human conversation, Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall, psychologist and mother of three, joins Dr Emma Offord to talk about the truth of modern motherhood: the fear, the perfectionism, and the shame around feelings we were never taught to name. Tuesday shares how she left an academic career built on perfectionism behind when motherhood made it impossible to keep performing, and how a single moment on her own driveway became the turning point that changed everything. T...

Ruby describes herself first and foremost as the little sister of her big brother Ewan, who is profoundly autistic, non-speaking, and has a severe learning disability. In this episode of *This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast*, Ruby joins Dr Emma Offord to talk about a devotion that has shaped her whole life, and a system that has repeatedly let her family down. Ruby shares what it meant to lose her closest companion to residential school at seven, to learn to be let down, and to live insi...