Feel Truly Loved and Understood
The Neurodivergent Love Lab. A weekly podcast for brains that work a little differently. Hosted by Jenna Dalton, a psychologist who’s AuDHD.
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⚡ The Hypothesis
You’re not the problem. You just need the right tools to feel loved and help your partner truly get you.
About the show
If you’ve read all the relationship books and felt like they just didn’t work for you, this is the show you’ve been waiting for.
Each episode breaks down how female neurodivergent wiring actually shows up in relationships (and gives you tools designed for how your brain actually works.)
No clinical jargon. No advice that only works for neurotypical people. Just the kind of conversation that ends with: “ohhh… it makes so much more sense now.”
You’ll leave with practical tools and neurodivergent-affirming strategies to help you build a better relationship – with yourself and your partner.
What to expect
New episodes weekly. Most run 20–30 minutes. Long enough to actually get something useful out of it, short enough to fit into your drive, your walk, or trying out that new TikTok recipe. (Besides. We both know you’ll be listening on 1.5x speed, anyway!)
Here’s what you can expect:
- What it’s like being a neurodivergent woman, and the language you need to feel understood by your partner
- How to start unmasking more with the person who loves you most (so your relationship doesn’t feel like a performance)
- Why typical relationship advice keeps falling flat and what to do instead
- Conflict, shutdown, and repair…. but make it neurodivergent-affirming
- Hyperfocus, executive functioning, masking, double empathy, and the patterns that keep creating moments of disconnection
- Rejection sensitivity, emotional dysregulation, sensory needs.… all the things that make you, you (and how to stay authentically you, while also staying connected)
- Neurodivergent-affirming communication scripts, frameworks, and tools you can actually use to build a better relationship
Start here
Episode 03The Neuroscience of Why You Fall Hard and Then Pull Away
The most misunderstood pattern in neurodivergent relationships. The neuroscience and four tools to break the cycle.
Episode 05Why You Shut Down In Fights (And What to Do About It)
The difference between ADHD and autistic shutdowns. Plus, what’s actually going on and what to do when your partner feels like you’re checking out.
Episode 07How Rejection Sensitivity Hijacks Your Relationship (+ 4 Steps to Slow Its Roll)
Why mild criticism can land like a punch and a small disagreement can feel like the whole relationship is ending. The neuroscience of RSD, plus four steps to slow the spiral.
Convinced it’s probably you?
That’s usually the first thought, isn’t it? Take the free quiz, Is It Actually Me?, and find out what’s really driving the same hurt, the same fight, the same feeling on repeat — your wiring, your relationship, or both together. Because “it’s me” and “it’s us” were never the same thing.
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