The Actualising Woman
Clare Llewellyn-Bailey
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The Actualising Woman is an empowering space for late-diagnosed autistic (ASD) + ADHD women to navigate unmasking, rebuild identity, and learn how to set healthy boundaries, and develop self-acceptance and self-advocacy, through guidance, validation and encouragement 🌱
As a counselling psychotherapist, diagnosed at 58 with AuDHD, I share a raw, honest account of my own unmasking, autistic burnout and breakdown, and the subsequent rebuilding of my identity, while planning a neurodivergent - friendly life abroad. (France or Italy, I haven't decided yet!)
I talk about how I'm attempting to find the right environment in which I can thrive and reach my full potential, and for once, after decades of highly masking (to my detriment) learn to accept myself for who I am as a congruent, neurodivergent, UNMASKED woman 🌸🌱
I am inspired by Carl Rogers' Theory of Actualisation (the king of person-centred therapy) and also his daughter Natalie Rogers; herself a therapist, who wrote a fantastic book about her journey through the later stages of her life after HER own life changing event.
This channel blends lived experience with practical advice, validation, evidence-informed insights, actionable tools, and plenty of humour 😝🌱
☕Girl needs COFFEE! Please donate ANY amount, so that I can do this full time?! Thank you!
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Contact: [email protected] for requests, stories for the show, questions or sponsorship queries.🌱
Clare Llewellyn-Bailey: Counselling Psychotherapist (MBACP, BA Hons)
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S1E10 AUDHD MASKING + UNMASKING | PROs +CONs | Late Diagnosed | Authentic + Congruence Identity
AUDHD MASKING + UNMASKING | PROs +CONs | Late Diagnosed | Authentic + Congruence Identity. My experiences so far! In this deeply personal episode on AuDHD masking and unmasking, I explore the pros…
S1E9 PART 2 What is Actualisation? What does it MEAN to me? Becoming a Fully Functioning Person with AuDHD
PART 2. In this episode I'm outlining: 1. what actualisation means. 2. what it means to become a fully functioning person and 3. what does that mean for me in REAL terms? What changes do I need to…
S1E8 PART 1 What's Your Plan Clare?? What Do You Need For You to Start Becoming a Fully Functioning Person? AKA - Actualise?
PART 1. In this one, I'm talking about (well... rambling on, really) a lightbulb moment I had in May 2022, which I've never got out of my head. A long term dream. BUT, it seems that it's only now…
S1E7 How Does Congruence Help You Unmask as an ASD ADHD -er? - A Core Condition for Actualising The Ideal 'You'
How Does Congruence Help You Unmask as an ASD ADHD -er? - A Core Condition for Actualising The Ideal 'You'. I talk about how masking goes against your congruent self.. causing distress and…
S1E6 How I'm Helping Myself Unmask and Process ADHD, ASD Diagnosis - Self Parenting, A Potato + The Actualising Tendency Carl Rogers
How I'm Helping Myself Unmask and Process My ADHD, ASD Diagnosis - Self Parenting + The Actualising Tendency Carl Rogers. Here's the story of how Carl Rogers came to learn about The Actualising…
S1E5 How Trauma & AuDHD Led Me to Chronic Negative Thinking & Breakdown
This episode is fully loaded! I talk about how having experienced trauma in childhood (and adulthood) alongside undiagnosed ADHD and ASD, had led me to my recent mental health breakdown. Heavy topics…
S1E4 Starting to Come Back to Myself - My NEW Self - Breakdown to Breakthrough as an AuDHD-er
Starting to Come Back to Myself - My NEW Self - Breakdown to Breakthrough as an AuDHD-er. I talk about how I move into an assessment phase, despite still feeling very vulnerable, emotional, sad and…
S1E3 Falling into Breakdown - What Was the Last Straw? AuDHD-er's Journey Towards Diagnosis
Falling into Breakdown. In this episode, I talk candidly about what caused my 'crash' into being mentally and physically incapacitated for 13+ weeks after months and years of extreme stress and…
S1E2 My AuDHD Diagnosis How did THAT happen? Late Diagnosis Journey
My AuDHD Diagnosis How Did THAT happen? Late Diagnosis JourneyThe Actualising Woman 🪴 is a raw, unfiltered diary of life after my late diagnosis of (Level 1) ASD & ADHD (AuDHD) and a mental…
S1E1 WELCOME to The Actualising Woman and Here's What to Expect
INTRODUCTION to The Actualising Woman... what to expectThe Actualising Woman 🪴is an unfiltered, raw diary of life after my late-diagnosis of (Level 1) ASD and ADHD (AuDHD) and a mental breakdown in…
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