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A collaborative post today with sparkle partner and co-host of Loving Difference and the podcast, Heather Parks!
Loving Difference – HOPE and a Way Forward for Your Neurodiverse Relationship
Many contact us or arrive in Loving Difference wearing and bearing the symptoms and scars of relationship and life wounds – from their current relationship and before it too, e.g. …
- physically – sleep issues, put on or lost weight, pain
- emotionally – exhaustion/burnout, grief, anger, resentment, anxiety, depression
- spiritually – lost touch with who they are, despair
- mentally – exhaustion, confusion
- socially – lost confidence, isolated
These may be experienced by ALL neuro-identities
Rewind 10 years…
We didn’t know what emotional wounds are or how they were impacting us and our relationships.
Now we do and we’ll show you.
We didn’t know how to heal these wounds and stop them interfering with our present and future happiness.
Now we do and we’ll show you.
Many come here wanting and looking for the Solutions. Sticking plasters (band-aids!) are out of stock here, which many great solutions are, until we’ve walked through some recovery and healing!
So in Loving Difference, we support you to recover and heal… then it’s time for solutions that are empowering and surprisingly easy when exhaustion and emotional wounds of the recent and more distant past aren’t joining in.
Emotional wounds aren’t a gender thing or ‘only some neuro-identities’ thing. They’re an everyone thing!
We recovered ourselves and healed our emotional wounds so we’d have a different experience and be happier, and unexpectedly created a surprisingly safe environment for others to heal – in our homes and here, in Loving Difference.
In Loving Difference, here’s how you can heal the wounds you live with and carry every day, so that you can have a different experience ASAP…
1. Acknowledge and Validate – the power of sharing your experience with others who ‘get it’ without needing to explain yourself. This, in and of itself, begins the healing process, bringing hurts and fears into the light, into the open – to be seen. The power of ‘me too!’ can have us feeling less alone and more hopeful.
2. Re-view and Heal – with care.. seeing and understanding past hurts in new/different ways that brings clarity and renewed hope
3. Release and Decide – restoring agency in relation to past hurts and changing their influence on the present and future
4. Recovery and Care – creating renewed energy/capacity for love and life gently, at a pace that’s sustainable… and being YOU again, or maybe for the first time ever!
5. Safety and Steadiness – experiencing more safety at a nervous system level for steadiness and confidence to navigate everyday life and relationships, and all the joy and pain they bring
6. Light and Peace – corny as it sounds, healing truly brings a lightness, the weight of wounds is lifted, an inner peace can return and outer experience is forever changed
These six steps are supported by our professional expertise and personal experience through:
- Accredited Coaching – going beneath the surface to what’s deeper, that needs care and attention
- Therapeutic Coaches – supporting you with a combination of healing approaches including NLP, CBT, psychotherapy, parts/narrative therapy, energy and nervous system recovery, soul strolling and creativity; all trauma and neurodiversity informed – read more here
- Lived Experience – new maps and a new navigation system for love and life – we live what we teach, we’ve walked and are still walking the same path as Loving Difference members. Every day we use the same ways we share.
- Community – to encourage and share the healing journey with – the highs and the lows – without it many get stuck again or give up because healing does take time and commitment to the step by steps of it
- Culture – that’s safe, inclusive, hopeful, encouraging and empowering – the same culture we’re living in our friendship and our families
- Empowering Resources – Loving Difference is home to 100s of bite-sized and surprisingly fun resources that you journey at ‘Your Path, Your Pace’, designed and curated to support you to heal the past hurts, emotional wounds and scars from the journey that led you here.
Two ways to begin to change your experience ASAP:
Join Loving Difference – the all-online and fresh approach to being YOU again and thriving in your neurodiverse relationship, co-hosted with Heather Parks.
Book a complimentary call here – to discuss how coaching and community in Loving Difference can support your step by steps to reverse the impact of unknown neurodiversity, be YOU again and thrive – in your relationships and your life.
If you feel that Loving Difference is something you would benefit from and finances are a barrier to you participating fully, please contact us for help with that.
We’re here to meet you when you’re ready.
With love and sparkle for your healing journey…
Natalie and Heather ✨
(Photo credit: Artem Saranin via Pexels)
