In this important and compassionate episode of The Neurodivergent Experience, Jordan is joined by Ashley Dupuy for a powerful discussion on perimenopause, especially how it can uniquely impact neurodivergent women. Simon is taking time to rest and recharge, reinforcing the show’s message that rest is survival.

Together, Jordan and Ashley explore why this stage of life is still so misunderstood and often overlooked — particularly for autistic and ADHD women whose symptoms may already resemble burnout, anxiety, brain fog, sensory overload, and emotional exhaustion.

Ashley explains what perimenopause actually is, how it can begin years before menopause itself, and why hormonal changes can affect sleep, mood, memory, stress tolerance, energy levels, and physical health.

This is a hugely valuable episode for women navigating perimenopause, neurodivergent listeners wondering why life suddenly feels harder, and partners wanting to better understand and support the people they love.

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In this week’s Mindful Mondays, we continue the From Mask to Map series by exploring a question that sits at the heart of so many neurodivergent lives:

What is the difference between masking, performing, modelling behaviour, and learning soft skills?

From the outside, these things can look almost identical. But inwardly, those same behaviours can come from very different places - and that distinction matters deeply.

In this episode, Ashley explores:

* masking as a nervous system adaptation for safety and belonging

* why masking can become so normal that it disappears into the baseline

* the emotional and somatic cost of prolonged self-erasure

* performing as approval-seeking rather than true self-expression

* modelling behaviour as a way of calling forward qualities that already live within you

* soft skills as tools for connection, rather than disguises for disappearance

* movement and dance as powerful forms of gentle unmasking

This episode is an invitation to ask a life-changing question:

Am I using this skill to express more of who I am…or to disappear?

The episode also includes a deeply immersive guided practice, Keeping the Wisdom, Releasing the Disguise, helping you reconnect with the parts of you that adapted, the parts that learned, and the integrated self now ready to carry wisdom without self-erasure.

If you’d like to explore this work more deeply, Ashley has one final 1-to-1 space remaining and is also taking expressions of interest for her group coaching cohort beginning in September.

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And as always…

We’re all just walking each other home.

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In this powerful and deeply personal episode of The Neurodivergent Experience, Jordan and Simon are joined by musician and advocate Paul Stanworth, who shares his lived experience of growing up and navigating life with Tourette’s Syndrome and OCD.

Together, they unpack how Tourette’s often overlaps with other neurodivergent conditions like OCD, ADHD, and autism — and why understanding these connections is so important. Paul opens up about his early childhood memories of tics, including the hidden and often misunderstood compulsions he learned to mask from a young age. He explains how Tourette’s is not just about visible or vocal tics, but a constant internal experience driven by overwhelming urges and rituals that can affect every moment of daily life.

This episode is an honest, emotional, and ultimately hopeful conversation about understanding yourself, finding your path, and embracing neurodivergence — even when the world doesn’t yet understand it.

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