Welcome to The AuDHD Body. This is a dedicated Christ-centered space designed to support the AuDHD experience from the inside out.
Today, I want to talk about the mission of The AuDHD Body and reflect on my own journey with AuDHD. I also want to share my vision for the blog so you know what to expect for future posts.
The mission of The AuDHD Body is to integrate the mind, body, and spirit. Living with an Autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) brain often means living in a landscape of contrasts: deep focus alongside sensory overload, intense creativity paired with executive dysfunction, and a constant, dynamic flow of passion and fatigue. Too often, conventional wellness and productivity advise asks us to mask, push through, or fit into systems that were never meant for our nervous systems.
At The AuDHD Body, a holistic approach is embraced, anchored in the core ethos: integrating mind, body, and spirit. It is a place where true well-being doesn’t come from forcing yourself into rigid molds, but from coming home to your Christ-centered self through gentle, tailored somatic and mindful connections.
Whether you are newly diagnosed, exploring diagnosis, or simply seeking a Christ-centered, somatic and holistic path to living with AuDHD, The AuDHD Body is here to walk alongside you.
I personally want to walk alongside you because I have been to the rock bottom of the AuDHD experience. That experience ended with the crushing misdiagnosis of Bipolar 2, after previously being diagnosed with depression with psychotic features. I have since learned that misdiagnosis is a common experience among those with AuDHD. I want to share my story in the hope it will inspire you to persevere in the face of real AuDHD challenges and to find beauty in even the toughest of experiences.
In March of 2025, I ended up in the psyche ward with what I thought at the time were hallucinations. I had been hearing voices, seeing and talking to faces in the wall, and I felt like my brain had been breaking in two for months. I had been experiencing high levels of stress since the pandemic in 2020. I was working part-time and volunteering part-time, and I had a successful weekly podcast that took a close look at the original languages of Scripture. I had a stable home life, but still I couldn’t seem to function under the stress. It felt like a mountain of stress to me and then I broke under the weight of it. I was found wandering around an abandoned mall parking lot, talking to myself. I had shed my clothes in the parking lot and was shortly thereafter picked up by a kind lady police officer. It was certainly an embarrassing story to tell, but I tell it because mental health is not a joke. It has very real implications for one’s overall health and safety.
It was originally thought by doctors in the psyche ward that I had depression with psychotic features, so I was put on a mood stabilizer that incidentally is also used to calm autistic agitation. My body and mind responded immediately to the medication and I was released from the psyche ward.
This is just a high level view of my story. There are a lot of details I will leave out of today’s episode and return to in future episodes. For now, I want you to know that my diagnosis, though on paper is an unspecified moos disorder, is actually a stress-induced dissociative break. I was fortunate to get a second opinion, and though the official diagnosis hasn’t changed yet, I resonate with all that goes along with an stress-induced dissociative break. The other thing you should know for now is that people with AuDHD are particularly susceptible to having these kinds of breaks from reality.
I promised, however, to leave you with something hopeful. The beauty of my story is that through all of this, I discovered that I was wonderfully made as a person with AuDHD. If I hadn’t ended up in the psych ward, I might never have discovered that I was beautifully different.
For now, I will leave you with the thought that God’s timing and purpose for our lives is impeccable. I can’t deny His role in my discovery and He is everything to me and my healing journey. I hope He will be part of our journey here together and an intimate part of your life as well. This blog and the work I do at The AuDHD Body is Christ-centered work. My wish is for you to be loved and seen in that and encouraged beyond your diagnosis. We are all sons and daughters of the Most High. That is our identity and not our diagnosis. May we continue forward with that in mind.
So, what can you expect from this blog? My hope is that you will use it as a healing tool. So much of the AuDHD experience is in our heads. Our minds contain so much energy and carry so much of weight of our lives. Somehow we must find a way to integrate mind, body, and spirit. I want to help with this endeavor by providing weekly somatic exercises. To regulate our minds, we must regulate our bodies. Most episodes will look like this with episodes for reflection, story-telling, and research interspersed through out.
I’d like to leave you with one final thought for the day: Remember, wellness isn’t about fixing your nervous system – it’s about learning its language and building a Christ-centered life that honors it.
