Raquel Devillé: Regulating our neurodivergent nervous systems
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Episode 198 with Raquel Devillé.
“The idea of just sitting still to meditate was always terrifying. I need movement — something active — otherwise I can’t calm down.”
Raquel is a therapist, yoga teacher, and the author of It’s Not Your Period! Beyond Moods and Myths: Understanding Unexplainable Emotions and the Hidden Roots of Pain, Stress, and Anxiety. Originally from Portugal and now based in Belgium, Raquel was diagnosed with ADHD and autism in adulthood after recognizing the signs through her children’s experiences.
Drawing from her personal journey and professional training, Raquel developed the EnCorps Method — a body-centered, practical framework designed to help neurodivergent individuals manage sensory overwhelm, chronic stress, and emotional dysregulation. Her work offers a refreshing, empowering path to self-acceptance and nervous system regulation.
In this episode, Raquel and I discuss:
- The connections between chronic stress, masking, sensory overwhelm, and chronic pain
- How TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) helps discharge stress stored in the body
- Why stillness-based meditation often doesn’t work for ADHDers — and what does
- Practical ways to weave body-based practices like TRE and somatic healing into daily life
- Highlights from her EnCorps Method, including embracing sensations, nurturing the body, and stabilizing the nervous system over time
Whether you're newly diagnosed or deep into your neurodivergence journey, Raquel’s approach offers some fascinating and tangible strategies for stabilizing the nervous system over time
Website: encorps.be ; raqueldeville.be
Instagram: @raqueldeville
Links & Resources:
Video: Peter Levine's Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body
Video: Impala Escapes Death & Shakes off Stress
Book: When The Body Says No by Gabor Maté
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| 0:00.0 | If our autonomic nervous system decides that we risk our life by fighting or running away, |
| 0:08.0 | it will make us free, so we have the freeze response. |
| 0:11.0 | It's really fast, but we don't have that intense movement of fighting or running away. |
| 0:17.0 | So we just freeze, no movement. |
| 0:20.0 | And if we were in nature, our body would tremor. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to the Women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed |
| 0:35.2 | with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. |
| 0:40.8 | I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with |
| 0:47.5 | this new lens, and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. I quickly discovered I was not the |
| 0:52.8 | only woman to have this experience, and |
| 0:54.8 | now I interview other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD, and |
| 1:00.3 | are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, |
| 1:06.5 | both professionally and personally. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome back. I know I say this every time, but you are |
| 1:13.1 | in for a real treat today. So let's get started with a brand new episode. Here we are at |
| 1:19.1 | episode 198 in which I interview Raquel de Bile. Raquel is a therapist, a yoga teacher, |
| 1:26.8 | and the author of It's Not Your Period, Beyond Moods and Myths, Understanding, Unexplainable Emotions, and the Hidden Routes of Pain, Stress, and Anxiety. |
| 1:38.1 | Originally from Portugal and now based in Belgium, Raquel was diagnosed with ADHD and autism in adulthood after recognizing the |
| 1:44.9 | signs of neurodivergents in her children. |
| 1:47.2 | Drawing from her personal journey and her professional training, Raquel developed the Encore |
| 1:52.2 | Method, a body-centered, practical framework designed to help neurodivergent individuals |
| 1:57.3 | manage sensory overwhelm, chronic stress, and emotional dysregulation. |
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