AuDHD Flourishing
Mattia Maurée
The monotropic neurotype of Autism + ADHD holds strengths and challenges. Typical advice often doesn't work for us! Your AuDHD host, Mattia Maurée (they/them), shares research, lived experience, and practical advice from coaching over 400 neurodivergent folks. They focus on feeling better first, before tackling the big life design questions. You're doing great, you belong here, and it's possible to feel a lot better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 28, 2026 • 33min
136 Financial Therapy with Christine Hargrove
Christine Hargrove, a licensed marriage and family therapist who practices financial therapy for people with ADHD. She explains what financial therapy looks like and how ADHD affects money management. She describes tools like financial genograms, simple spending categories, automation, and the SAVER app test. She emphasizes building a budget you can follow on your worst day.
Mar 27, 2026 • 6min
Paper Planners & Tasks Feeling Real
They explore returning to a paper planner and why writing time blocks by hand makes scheduled tasks feel more real. They talk about copying digital events to paper to make the week concrete. They discuss picking a planner with limited to-do slots to force realistic choices. They reflect on how medication and planner constraints affect focus, boundaries, and task persistence.
19 snips
Mar 21, 2026 • 24min
135 Slow Processes are Frustrating
A host explores the frustration of slow, opaque internal changes and how they differ from processing speed. They talk about positive disintegration and how shifting inner processes can realign life with values. There are candid moments about reducing smartphone use and reshaping daily routines. The conversation covers experimenting with priorities, email systems, and making space for integration and learning.
Mar 14, 2026 • 40min
134 Worst Tasks for AuDHDers
They break down the toughest tasks using the BAD(A)D lens: Boring, Annoying, High-stakes, and Difficult. They explore why boring jobs stall interest-driven systems and ways to gamify or timebox them. They cover strategies for annoying, persistent chores, and how to unfreeze when things feel high-stakes. Practical steps and an energy-aware planning approach round out the conversation.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 14min
133 Anger and Aloneness
They talk about feeling anger and overwhelm about ongoing crises and how that emotion can motivate change. The conversation separates chosen alone time from painful isolation and when each harms wellbeing. They explore channeling anger into nourishing care, valuing feeding and household work as movement support. Practical tips include mending, cleaning, and small acts that build capacity for future community action.
Feb 28, 2026 • 20min
132 Is This Your True Desire?
A lively look at how to tell fleeting hyperfocus apart from long-term wants. Personal stories show when urges fit your life and when they do not. Practical alternatives are offered so you can explore passions without upending everything. Tools and exercises help track intensity and preserve core pursuits while letting new interests bloom.
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Feb 21, 2026 • 40min
131 Disordered Eating and AuDHD
frank conversation about why disordered eating is more common among autistic, ADHD, and trans folks. Personal stories connect childhood food scarcity, dieting, and pandemic relapse to long-term eating patterns. Sensory differences, low interoception, ritualized eating, and ARFID are explored. The episode also challenges diet culture and highlights medical causes like gastroparesis and motility issues.
10 snips
Feb 14, 2026 • 10min
Your Core Self-Care Need - Repost
They explore the idea that one or two core self-care needs can make life feel easier. Practical examples like food, sleep, movement, touch, and social time are discussed. The host warns against one-size-fits-all fixes and explains why sleep is not always the universal answer. Reflective questions and common barriers to identifying your core need are offered.
6 snips
Feb 7, 2026 • 12min
130 Unclear Discomfort
A host explores vague, hard-to-pinpoint discomfort and why AuDHD brains often feel off without a single cause. They list small stressors to reveal cumulative effects. Practical tactics like floor-planning, to-do writing, and medication/movement checks get discussed. Mindfulness and Internal Family Systems are offered as ways to process parts. Compassion and validation are emphasized throughout.
Jan 31, 2026 • 1h 3min
129 Embodied Exercise with Martha Munroe
Martha Munroe, a neurodivergent personal trainer, researcher, and author of Attuned Exercise, talks embodiment and rethinking fitness. She explores shifting from appearance-driven goals to sensing the body's experience. Topics include pacing for sustainability, matching training to life load, movement as restorative practice, social dance and consent, and widening what counts as exercise.
