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This week, I’m joined by nutritionist and eating behaviour coach Marcelle Rose to explore the often-overlooked connection between emotional eating and neurodivergence.

If you’ve ever struggled with binge eating, food restriction or chaotic eating patterns, especially alongside ADHD or autism, you are not alone. We talk about why these behaviours are so common in the ADHD community, the impact of shame and generational messaging around food, and how traits like perfectionism, RSD and impaired interoception can make eating feel extra hard.

Marcelle shares practical, compassionate tools to help you feel more connected to your body, understand your hunger signals, and heal your relationship with food, without restriction or guilt.

Whether you're newly diagnosed or have long suspected your ADHD or neurodivergence influences your eating habits, this episode will leave you feeling seen, supported and more empowered to heal your relationship with food.

✨ Why ADHD and autism can increase the likelihood of emotional and binge eating

✨ The difference between disordered eating, emotional eating, binge eating, restrictive eating and clinical eating disorders

✨ How shame, diet culture and generational beliefs about weight impact your relationship with food

✨ Why neurodivergent women often struggle with hunger cues and interoception – and how to start reconnecting

✨ How RSD, perfectionism and comparison can feed into disordered eating

✨ What recovery really looks like (and why it’s different for everyone)

✨ The role of hormones, the menstrual cycle and sleep in your eating behaviours

✨ Gentle, realistic strategies to feel more calm, consistent and confident with food

🕒 07:27 – What binge & disordered eating can look like

🕒 15:40 – The emotional root of chaotic eating

🕒 21:39 – Healing, body image, and self-compassion

🕒 25:40 – Listening to your body’s hunger signals

🕒 35:16 – Why neurodivergent brains need a gentler approach

Marcelle’s book The Binge Freedom Method: 4 Pillars to Beating Emotional Eating for Good is available here. You can also connect with her community via The Food Freedom Collective on Facebook.

Links and Resources:

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In this week’s episode, Kate speaks with Rachel Morgan-Trimmer, a neurodiversity consultant, TEDx speaker, and author of How to Be Autistic: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed. Together they explore the complex intersection of ADHD and autism, and what it means to truly support neurodivergent people at work and beyond.

Rachel shares her journey of late diagnosis, burnout, and self-discovery, and unpacks the lesser-known ways mental and physical health can be affected when ADHD and autism go unsupported. They dive deep into the power of language, the harm of assumptions, and how workplaces can move from just “awareness” to real, sustainable inclusion through low-cost, high-impact interventions.

What You’ll Learn:

✨ Why the overlap between ADHD and autism can feel confusing — especially for women

✨ How internalised stigma, shame, and burnout can show up at work

✨ What sustainable, inclusive systems for neurodiveristy look like in the workplace

✨ How to support neurodivergent employees and be a better manager

✨ The role of passion, purpose, and flexibility in helping neurodivergent employees thrive

✨ Why workplace inclusion must centre both health and performance

✨ Why neurodiversity training is more in demand than ever

✨ How changing the narrative from “not enough” to “full of potential” helps productivity and outcomes

✨ Rachel’s personal experience riding the wave of ADHD and autism — and how she empowers others to be their authentic selves

Timestamps:

🕒 01:11 – How ADHD and autism overlap

🕒 12:25 – The rise of neurodiversity awareness at work

🕒 14:30 – What inclusive workplaces can look like

🕒 24:40 – How neurodivergent traits show up in everyday life

🕒 28:40 – Rethinking productivity with ADHD

🕒 36:28 – Navigating neurodivergence as a woman

🕒 40:08 – Why support is key to thriving

This episode is for anyone who’s felt misunderstood at work, questioned how their brain “should” operate, or wants to help build a more inclusive workplace for their employees. When we reframe neurodivergence as a difference, not a deficit, everyone benefits.

Find out more about Rachel and her work via her website, askfirebird.com or on LinkedIn. Buy Rachel's book here.

Links and Resources:

⭐ Perfectionism, Pressure, Procrastination, Productivity, and all the ADHD Ps in between! Workshop available to buy now on-demand. Click here to purchase.

⭐ Book on the next ADHD Wellbeing Workshop all about 'Boosting Hormonal and Perimenopausal Wellbeing alongside ADHD' on April 22nd @1.30pm! Click here to book.

⭐ If you love the podcast but want more ADHD support, get a sneak peek of my brand new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit and pre-order it here!

⭐ Launching September! Tired of ADHD support...

🌟 My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is available to preorder here 🌟

In this inspiring episode, I speak with Emily Katy, author, advocate, and neurodivergent changemaker, about her powerful journey with late-diagnosed autism, ADHD, and OCD. At just 22, Emily is using her voice to spotlight the urgent need for better understanding and support for neurodivergent girls, particularly in education.

We explore how Emily’s struggles with school attendance, mental health, and being misunderstood led to her writing Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life. Her story is a call to action for educators, parents, and mental health professionals to rethink how we support young neurodivergent women.

What You’ll Learn:

✨ How stereotypes influence undiagnosed ADHD, autism, and OCD in girls

✨ The power of Emily's diagnosis in understanding lifelong struggles

✨ Why Emily started the ‘Not a School Skiver’ campaign to challenge harmful assumptions about school avoidance

✨ The link between neurodivergence, school attendance difficulties, and severe emotional distress

✨ How schools and the government must do better to support neurodivergent children

✨ Practical adjustments to help neurodivergent students struggling in mainstream education

✨ Why recognising undiagnosed neurodivergence is critical in mental health services

✨ How self-acceptance and diagnosis changed Emily’s life — and inspired her to write a book to help others

Timestamps:

🕒 01:56 – Emily’s diagnosis journey

🕒 04:50 – The daily challenges of living with ADHD and autism

🕒 07:11 – Why school refusal is often misunderstood

🕒 10:20 – The failures of the education system for neurodivergent students

🕒 12:01 – Why recognising neurodivergence is key in mental health

Listen now for a deeply honest, eye-opening conversation that will leave you feeling informed, moved, and motivated to spark change.

Learn more about Emily here

Read Emily's Letter to the government here

Links & Resources:

⭐ Perfectionism, Pressure, Procrastination, Productivity, and all the ADHD Ps in between! Workshop available to buy now on demand. Click here to purchase.

⭐ Book on the next ADHD Wellbeing Workshop all about 'Boosting ADHD Hormonal and Perimenopausal Wellbeing' on April 22nd @1.30pm! Click here to book.

⭐ If you love the podcast but want more ADHD support, get a sneak peek of my brand new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit and pre-order it here!

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