NeuroDiverse Marriages [301]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Narcissism, Christianity, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual, Christian, Self-improvement, Education, Divorce, Marriage

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I interview Dr. Stephanie Holmes to explore the unique challenges and dynamics within neurodiverse marriages. We talk about how Autism interacts with faith, how religion plays into neurodiversity, the difference between abusers and neurodiverse individuals, and how neurodiverse couples can navigate their relationships more effectively. Dr. Holmes shares insights from her extensive experience working with these couples.

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Related Resources:

Check out Stephanie’s Autism Spectrum Resources for Marriage & Family as well as the International Association of NeuroDiverse Christian Marriage.
Go listen to Stephanie’s podcast, NeuroDiverse Christian Couples.
Find Stephanie on YouTube.
Pre-order Stephanie’s book, Uniquely Us.
Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote another book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
My newest book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
Flying Free is my online membership program designed for Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip and support you through this program.
Flying Higher is my online membership program for divorced Christian women. Come rebuild your life after divorce with women just like you.

Dr. Stephanie C. Holmes is an ordained minister, author, autism researcher, speaker, and certified autism specialist. She is the owner and founder of Autism Spectrum Resources for Marriage & Family, LLC, and she and her husband, Dan, are co-founders of The International Association of NeuroDiverse Christian Marriage, LLC, and the podcast NeuroDiverse Christian Couples.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free
0:10.0	Podcast, a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.4	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:21.4	Welcome to episode 301 of the Flying Free Podcast.
0:27.0	Our guest today is Dr. Stephanie Holmes.
0:30.3	She is an ordained minister, an author, an autism researcher, speaker, and certified
0:36.8	autism specialist. She's also the owner and founder
0:39.8	of Autism Spectrum Resources for Marriage and Family, and she and her husband Dan are co-founders
0:46.7	of the International Association of Neurodiverse Christian Marriage. And they have a podcast
0:52.6	called Neurodiverse Christian couples, which is fascinating.
0:57.1	And by the way, I will make sure that I include links to all of those resources in the show notes.
1:02.0	Let's just say welcome, Stephanie. Thank you so much for being on the Flying Free Podcast.
1:06.1	I am very excited to be here. Thank you for having me.
1:08.9	So we were having a little bit of a conversation before we
1:11.2	got started because I have a child who was diagnosed on the spectrum and then I have a couple
1:17.5	children that I have wondered about. And then of course in the flying free kaleidoscope,
1:22.5	which is my private program, there have been many women who've come forward and said, I think either
1:27.3	their husband was
1:28.0	diagnosed or they believe that their husband's on the spectrum, but I've never had a guest on the
1:33.5	podcast actually specifically address this issue. So let's just start off by asking this, because I know
1:40.8	a lot of people in the forum will say, well, since my husband has this
1:45.2	thing and he can't help it, I mean, this is the way God made him. So do I need to just suck it up
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