![[90] S7, Ep10: Burnouts, breakdowns and anxiety: a journey towards more supportive and sustainable work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dea-Neile-Hopton-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 26 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Déa Neile-Hopton is a basket maker and artist. She is of mixed Jamaican and English heritage and grew up in the 1970s and 80s in York, England. Now 47, she lives in Whitland in Wales, with her partner and three neurodivergent children. She is self diagnosed autistic...
![[86] S7, Ep6: Narrative therapy: reflections on an autistic experience of mental health inpatient services](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Alexis-Quinn-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 29 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Alexis Quinn is a mother, author, educator and former teacher who spent three and a half years in inpatient services following a mental health breakdown in her mid twenties. 14 months into this period, aged 27, she was diagnosed autistic by chance, when an Autism...
![[85] S7, Ep5: Autistic motherhood: working through the overwhelm of birth and parenting](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sanna-Ostergren-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 22 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Sanna Östergren is a writer and literary translator from Sweden. She lives in the countryside with her husband and their two-year-old son, where she also runs a small independent publishing company. She realised she was autistic about a year ago, when the overwhelm of...
![[82] S7, Ep2: God as a special interest: deconstructing religious identity as a newly identified autistic](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/D-L-Mayfield-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 1 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
D.L. Mayfield is a freelance writer from Portland, USA. She has written for Christian publications in the US for over 10 years, and is the author of several books, the latest of which, Unruly Saint, explores the life and work of the late American journalist, social...
![[61] S5, Ep6: Empowering labels, navigating relationships and advocating for neurodivergent and disabled people](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Marie-Ralph-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 12 Feb, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 5
Marie Ralph is an autistic, disabled single mum to two neurodivergent sons. She is 48 and was diagnosed five years ago. She lives in Newquay, Cornwall in the UK, where as well as being a full time carer, she is Director of Youth Art Connect and Cornwall Tourettes and...
