During this episode with neurodivergent counselor Jarral Boyd we address the connection between trauma and neurodivergence and ways to think about romantic love as well as the following:
- Navigating neurodivergence and trauma
- Understanding your emotional vocabulary.
- Addressing challenges through somatics and getting to know your body and acknowledge what is going on.
- Creating a routine can be helpful to better understand your body and emotions and help you get more in tune.
- Understand how to experience joy in your body.
- Translating what’s happening in your body when you have alexithymia.
- Information shared through AANE certification includes using a 1-5 scale to share with your partner how you’re feeling emotionally.
- Memory issues during or after a meltdown.
- Apologizing when you don’t feel you have done anything wrong.
- Trauma can make being wrong scary and unsafe.
- Cassandra Syndrome
- Benefits of decentralizing romantic love for neurodivergent folx
- Removing relationship hierarchy and being open to different types of romantic relationships. This can help reduce expectations of one or both partners.
- The value of expanding the idea of love.
- Asking youself "Is it the person I want or the situation?"
You can contact Jarral Boyd at: jarralboyd.com
If you are interested in the free support groups Mona offers for the non-autistic/neurotypical partners you can email her at neurodiverselove4u@gmail.com to get the Zoom links.
Mona Kay, MSW, Ph.D.
Host of the Neurodiverse Love Podcast
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