Soul reclaiming work for ASD, Autistic, ADHD & AuDHD women
A deep journey of women's Soul work with a small circle of sisters - starting at the Autumn equinox and spiralling through the winter illuminations and out the other side into the spring equinox. Designed specifically for women who are either Autistic, ADHD or AuDhd and who hold space in their life for others (either personally or professionally) for example look after family in some way in your life or roles of responsibility, or who run workshops, facilitate circles, work in the healing arts, write or speak, work with creativity or spirituality.
Maybe this is you ?
There are aspects of being a neurodivergent woman that are truly beautiful, magical, powerful and truly a gift to behold. There are also aspects of being neurodivergent as a woman that are challenging – both historically and now. The challenges mostly come from our societies not being set up for a wide diverse spectrum of humans to thrive and be valued. Society has been set up to work for a particular kind of brain and soul and if we do not fit that then we struggle and bump up against things daily. Both the beauty and wonder of being a neurodivergent woman in the 21st century need space to be welcomed and until our societies make space for this diversity we we need to create our own and meet ourselves in the kindred company of others who can champion us and help us to find all the exiled parts of us and together find our way into fully living life unmasked and unapologetically.. This journey is about being with both the challenges as well as the joys and celebrations.
“I have seen over and over again the healing that happens when a circle of neurodivergent women come together and show up unmasked – it is quite something to experience – empowering, healing, inspiring and strengthening”
Often women come to me with deep grief and sadness because of a lifetime of missed opportunities because they didn’t know they were neurodivergent.This pain runs deep and it needs to be integrated in order to be able to fully live our true soul self without apology and in total joy of who we are.
Have you recently (or not so recently) discovered you are a Neurodivergent woman and it’s all kicking off? like your life has been turned upside down in ways you cannot fathom ? Below is a list of things you may of been finding challenging as you go deeper into finding yourself. If you say yes to 4 or more from the list then this wintering circle of kindred spirit has many deep gifts to offer you. What I hear women say over and over and over again is that the most profound thing that is helping them is being with other neurodivergent women and able to talk freely about it and be understood, empathised with and celebrated.
Can you relate ?
- Do you find yourself wondering how on earth you could of not known your were neurodivergent your entire life now that it seems so glaringly obvious and so front and centre ?
- Are you exhausted from a lifetime of masking and long to be with others relaxed in your true self ?
- Is there deep grief, anger and pain when you look back on your life and the opportunities missed because of not knowing ?
- Is the list of ways that you are neurodivergent seem ever growing ?
- Have you found that therapy never really quite hit the target somehow, and you were left believing it was your fault that it didn’t work ?
- Has your life been one where you have often just not been able to ‘cope’ with being in the world, with your senses feeling overwhelmed, feeling burned, and having a lot of very specific ways you need things to be ?
- Do you carry historical hurt and trauma because of a lifetime of being misunderstood, misattuned to, shamed, mocked, judged, ostracised or made wrong for how you where/are ?
- Do you feel like inside your head is often like a 10 lane motorway of thoughts and you’re not sure how to order them ?
Reclaiming and living our magnificent selves - Would you like to genuinely feel delight and celebration about being a neurodivergent woman ?
- Would you like to harness and develop your superpowers and gifts and have them enhance your life ?
- Would you like support in navigating your way through some of the difficullties with other women who really understand you ?
- Would you value a space to talk about your neurodiversities more so you can get a deeper and wider understanding of yourself ?
- Would you like to get to a place in yourself were the good things about being neurodivergent totally out weight the things that feel hard about it (if you don’t already feel that) ?
- Would you like to become close friends with other neurodivergent women, and have them as true allies and sisters in your life ?
- Would you like to live a life that feels in alignment with who you really are and how you want to live as a neurodivergent woman ?
- Would you like to become a woman contributing to the great transformation on earth just by living a truly aligned neurodivergent life as a woman ?
- Would you value being held in a safe enough space to practice bringing through your magic and gifts while at the same time looking after yourself and feeling resourced ?
If several of these questions resonate with you,
this Cauldron of Illumination may hold deep gifts for your journey…
There are no 2 humans who are the same
This is also true for there being no 2 neurodivergent humans being the same. It is different within each and every one of us and it’s our journey to get curious about ourselves and in learning how we can best navigate our life in a world that has yet to widen it’s lens of understanding or adaptation. Our world has yet to understand that it’s not us that’s broken, but the system itself, and that we can’t and/or don’t want to conform to a system that feels misaligned with our values; way of thinking; way of doing, and way of expressing.
We are really unique and precious
I believe we are the lineage of humans that have somehow not conformed to the rules of the modern world of socialisation and functionality. I believe that our level of attunement to the senses and to life is the natural state of all humans before we got lost in modern evolution. We each have a unique and essential role to play at this time on earth and the gifts of being Neurodivergent are very much needed if we are to change the way we exist at this time on Earth. We may find it challenging to live in our societies but that is not because we are broken and wrong. It is the societies that are broken and very wrong in so many ways and we feel it and our souls express it.
At the moment however, it can feel like the more we express our true selves, the more pathologized we get. We are here to make big change, and if we come together in mutual support and collaboration we can do so much more than on our own. It begins with each of us personally finding our way to living an unmasked life, free of shame and self-judgement.
This wintering journey of darkness calls forth illumination of our inner light and provides an inspiring space to discover how to live and celebrate your full, unapologetic and magnificent neurodiverse self with the gifts you bring to the world.
“I discovered so many more things about myself today just by listening to other women talk about their quirks… I came away with an encyclopaedia of more understanding… I feel so differently about myself in the best possible way…”
The healing power of coming together as neurodivergent woman
The winter hearths journey is about liberating ourselves from the hurt of a lifetime of being misunderstood, judged and shamed for being who you are. A lifetime of 10,000 tiny rejections and judgements delivered in a myriad of ways, from subtly to overt, over many decades from being a small child to the present day. These hurts sit in our bodies, hearts and minds. It is only relatively recent that we have begun to become aware of the depth and breadth of what it’s like to live with Neurodiversities in a system designed for something very different. Incredible as it seems, we live with the struggles for decades, without realising that so many of them… and then when we are shown them, we are dumfounded about how we could have lived ALL this time not knowing.
This can often bring a river of grief inside us for all that we lost or missed out on as a result of not knowing. Giving space to feel the grief is important as it brings with it more self-compassion and more capacity for kindness towards ourselves. It has the power to lift the inner-critic from our shoulders that kept telling us we just need to ‘make more effort’.
There is deep healing in the coming together too. Sharing our stories and experiencing the power of empathy from others can crack our hearts open in a way that we have not been able to reach… this alone heals so much because it has been such a huge missing piece in the story. It’s not where the story ends but it brings courage and strength to make the changes we long for in living a life that is truly free from shame.
This is a space for experiencing authentic, genuine understanding and empathy for the struggles that have been, and still can be challenging to navigate. We will gather as women and really see each other. Can you imagine being in a circle of women who really get you? Like really get you, not only do they get you, they delight in you, they empathise with the daily struggles you experience because they resonate. This is what happens in the workshop and it’s magical to witness. To see the healing unfold in each woman as she blossoms like a rose and light up the room with her unique essence.
“..wow…that was like nothing I have ever experienced before…this changes everything, it was so much more than I thought it would be. I can’t thank you enough…
My own Journey
HOW IT ALL UNFOLDED
I have been on my own journey of self discovery in relation to my own AuDHD which I have had since birth. It has been passed down my mother and my Father line and my daughter is also AuDHD. I have spent a lifetime living outside of conventional society in part due to being a deeply spiritual, animistic nature based soul that has always preferred living close to the land and to the Mystery and being embedded within the natural world.
But also because I could not fit myself inside the rules laid down by society. I have struggled endlessly for decades in countless ways and it is only in the past 7 years that I have come to understand why some of how I am in due to what conventional mainstream society would call AuDHD. I fiercely rejected being labeled and boxed and pushed them away for many years. However in my journey of enquiry I came to see that for a time these labels have been useful not least as they helped with research as one can search terms online to find out more.
I do not believe however that being Autistic or AuDHD is a pathology to be fixed. I believe in essence it is our modern world and the culture we live within that is the problem. That many of my ways of being are a deep connected way of living with spirit at the centre of my life and in our modern world this is not understood or welcomed. In indigenous ancestral cultures people who are what we now refer to as Autistic or AuDHD where often the shamans or healers in the village, the seers and the edge walkers. There are of course challenges to be navigated in relation to social human relating and in extreme situations self care at a basic physical level. What I am exploring (and offering here in my work) is for women like myself who are what is termed as ‘Highly functioning autistic or AuDHD’
THE CLINICAL LENS
There is much on offer for autism and AuDHD in the mainstream through a clinical lens – one that see’s us as broken and needing to be fixed and changed so that we can better ‘fit in’ and follow the rules of conventional society and we have to squash many aspects of ourself down in order to succeed with that.
I for one have no desire to do this and my work is offered to women who also wish to deepen their relationship to themselves as being autistic AuDHD through the lens of their spiritual being and how to bring though their full gifts to the world and feel authentic and resourced in that.
I believe with a passion from over 30 years of work with women and women in leadership that when women come together basically anything is possible. My intention in birthing this body of work is to slowly build a network of kindred spirits and to change the narrative, change culture and arrive at a place where we are honoured and needed in our world for the work we do and how we do it.
In the past year or more as I have been more vocal on social media about my own journey and with hundreds of requests from women who know my work – to put my 30 years of experience as a space holder and spiritual guide into helping and supporting others who are autistic / AuDHD. Finally I feel the call is too strong to not open up the pathway. I am an animist, a seer, a healer a truth teller, a heart that can hear and can champion women. If this calls to you also please join me.
“..I am sitting here with tears as I think about the workshop. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so empathised with about being ADHD. I feel my life changed in some way today that I don’t yet get but I know it’s profound..”
You do not need an official diagnosis to join !
This is not a medical, clinical or educational day for learning about symptoms or theories through a clinical lens. If you would like to learn more about that then I recommend deepening that enquiry in all the way you can, through online research and by connecting with other women who are further along the path of understanding to you.
It feels important to be clear about who I can best serve at this time and how as I cannot help everyone who is neurodiverse. I feel I can best serve women who are walking a resonant path to me. So this offering is for highly functioning Autistic, ADHD / AuDHD women who’s work is supporting others.
It is designed specifically for high functioning Autistic, ADHD and Audhd women (either diagnosed or self identified but that you know yourself enough to know) who already have reasonably good understanding about ‘their’ Autism, ADHD / AuDHD and are ready to explore a deeper enquiry of how to fully live in this world and bring your gifts.
I am inviting women who are open to exploring or who already believe that this is not a diagnosis to be ‘fixed’ but a way in which spirit works through you.
The journey offers
- A space to unmask and be your fabulous authentic full woman self for a day in a circle of kindred spirits.
- Sharing experiences in service to more self awareness and understanding
- Giving and receiving empathy in service to deeper authentic self acceptance and self love.
- Grief ceremony for all loss experienced from a lifetime of living as a highly functioning autistic / AuDHD woman.
- Exploring and deepening the essence of our gifts through the lens of spirituality and sacred gifts
- Cauldron of shared ideas and practices in service to deepening our sacred gifts
Logistics
Fees:
£2,000 standard
£1,800 low income
£1,600 Concession (limited availability, book early)
Payments plans are offered and if you opt for this full fees must be completed by the start date of the training.
Dates 2026 – 2027:
Circle 1 – 16-18 October
Circle 2 – 27-29 November
Circle 3 – 8-10 January
Circle 4 – 26-28 February
Circle 5 – 8-11 April (nature immersion)
To reserve a place:
You pay a holding deposit of £295. This includes your fees for module 1 which is up to a 30 minute personal session with Jewels over zoom. In the unlikely event that after module 1, either Jewels or you feel it’s not right for you, your deposit will be returned to you. Once you are accepted you will then be required to pay the remaining balance (either in one amount or in instalments)
Module 1:
This is a personal conversation with Jewels to meet you and get a deeper sense of each other. It also gives space for any questions you may have and also for Jewels and you to see if this training is right for you at this time.
Venue:
The EarthHeart centre, Forest of Dean UK.
Accommodation:
Accommodation is included in the fees. The beautiful house at EarthHeart with it rustic kitchen and crafted hobbit style woodwork throughout will be our HomeHearth for the time we gather. A gorgeous open fire to keep us extra warm in the winters evenings and the house has underfloor heating and a welcoming feel. If you have a campervan you are welcome to bring it if you prefer. We also have one air B&B guest suite that can be booked separately (contact us for booking info)
Meals and hot drinks
Hot drinks with fresh herbs and oodles of regular tea are on tap 24/7 and included in the fees. Breakfast is self serve and lunch is provided by EarthHeart – organic simple, nourishing and homemade soup or dhal and bread. Dinner will be a co-creation all together – a beautiful way to connect and nourish.
Booking policy
Please read our cancellation and booking policy before booking your place
so you are making an informed choice.
