This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet Podcast

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 feel they are failing. Planning, buying and tolerating food all take capacity, and this episode makes room for that.

A warm, practical and human conversation for anyone who has ever felt that food was one more thing to get wrong.

Follow Lucinda on her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/naturedockids/

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 system stuck in survival mode. Together, Emma and Jolene explore what changes when we come back into the body, including a beautiful centring practice Jolene calls finding your "soft front, strong back."

This is a gentle, grounded episode for anyone who has spent years living entirely in their head, and is ready to come home to the body instead.

Follow Jolene: @heart_in_mind_uk — https://www.instagram.com/heart_in_mind_uk/

This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast. For every neurodivergent mind that was masked, misread, or missed.

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. Together, Emma and Tuesday explore the myth of the easy child, the fear of becoming your child's inner critic, sensory overwhelm, and why connection, not solutions, is what mothers are really looking for.

A grounding, validating listen for every mother figuring out who she is underneath the performance.

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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 inside a hypervigilance that never really switches off. She speaks with rare honesty about the 454 days Ewan spent in a psychiatric hospital, the fight to bring him home, and finding her own identity beyond being his shadow.

This is a conversation about love that carries fear, and fear that never once looks like resentment. A story for anyone who has ever had to hold two things true at once.

Follow Ruby on [her Instagram account here](https://www.instagram.com/ewenandme/).Find out more at divergentlife.co.uk. This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast.

James Hunt, founder of the Stories About Autism community and SAA Clothing, and author of Love Needs No Words, joins Dr Emma Offord for a tender conversation about fatherhood, communication and connection. James is dad to Jude, 18, and Tommy, 15, both autistic, non-speaking and living with global developmental delay. He shares how one Facebook post grew into a community of hundreds of thousands, and how his family have found ways to communicate without spoken words, from eyes and body language to AAC devices and, more recently, nightly text messages with Tommy. Together, James and Emma talk about Jude turning 18, the fear and hope of watching him grow more independent, living with the uncertainty of Tommy's tics, and the small sensory rituals that keep James grounded. Honest, warm and full of heart.

Follow James on Instagram @storiesaboutautism.
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