As Development Lead at Neurodiverse Connection, I'm currently part of a project team led by Dr. Nicole Renehan, an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Durham. The team is developing a practitioner guide for domestic abuse perpetrator intervention practitioners who work with Neurodivergent clients.

Research Associate Dr Vicky Butterby is also on the team, along with partners specialising in domestic abuse perpetrator work: Respect, the North East Probation Service, and Community Justice Scotland. The project is funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

During phase one of the project, we have been proud to use our organisational expertise in advocating for Neurodivergent individuals, facilitating lived-experience informed and led training on Neurodivergence and consultancy on the creation of Neurodivergent-inclusive sensory environments, to shape and inform the co-production of the practitioners’ guide on working with Neurodivergent people.

Phase two of the project begins this September, in which we will be delivering training to support the piloting of the guide across three project partner organisation delivery sites.

We look forward to launching the guide in April 2026 at a hybrid event, which will be a collaborative effort between Neurodiverse Connection and the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse at Durham University.

To learn more about this project, visit Dr Renehan’s webpage.

"Do you think I want to be this way? Do you think I want to care this much? Don't you know how much easier my life would be if I didn't?"

~ Elphaba

Deep feelers, justice seekers, activists, humane, humanitarian, humans - we can't change our essence.

Even though we are othered, misogynistically pathologised & (deliberately) misunderstood.

Even though life would be so much easier for us if we could.
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Blessed are the #wicked #witches - we know wicked is not what we are!

The culmination of a huge & wonderful period of creativity and writing for me!

All the books I authored, co-authored, and the Girl God Books anthologies co-edited are now legally deposited in the British Library.

My writing centres on embodiment, spirituality & transformative education. 

I believe access and resources to this work and these experiences should be available to everyone and free of charge.  

Getting the books into the library was an important step towards that, and very important to me.

📚 Books I Have Authored:

Mentorship of Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood (June 2022)
A practical rite of passage guide to reconnecting with the sacred feminine and empowered womanhood.

Making Love with the Divine: Sacred, Ecstatic, Erotic Experiences (February 2023)
An exploration of how to find the sacred & spirituality within day-to-day life & the mundane.

Somatic Shamanism: Your Fleshy Knowing as the Tree of Life (June 2023)
A workbook that invites readers to embody their own internal wisdom through somatic practices and earth-based spirituality.

Embodied Education: Creating Safe Space for Learning, Facilitating and Sharing (September 2023)
Co-authored with my husband Dan Aldred, this book offers tools for cultivating inclusive, felt-safe, and transformative learning environments.

📖 Anthologies I Have Contributed To & Co-Edited

Re-Membering with Goddess: Healing the Patriarchal Perpetuation of Trauma (March 2022)
A powerful collection of voices reclaiming embodied feminine wisdom and healing after trauma.

Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity (December 2022)
A celebration of Neurodivergent experiences through a sacred lens.

The Crone Initiation: Women Speak on the Menopause Journey (August 2023)
A heartfelt anthology where women share their personal journeys through menopause.

Pain Perspectives: Finding Meaning in the Fire (October 31, 2023)
A raw and honest exploration of pain, transformation, and resilience.

These works are deeply personal and inspired by my journey through spirituality, education, embodiment, and Neurodivergent womanhood. They are intended to support others in finding their voice, reclaiming their body, and connecting with spirituality and meaning-making in their own liberating way.

It’s back!!! 
Woo hoo. Our Neurodiverse Connection Neurodivergent Wellbeing Approach Training  Course - which I facilitate - is back with evening or half-day session options starting on Oct 14th - find out more here

"Boundaries are essential for our wellbeing, healthy relationships and working sustainably. Intellectually I know that. Yet, as a Neurodivergent individual, I have found that understanding and setting boundaries incredibly challenging. This has been further complicated by the fact that much of the literature, self-help strategies and wellbeing approaches related to boundary setting are not Neurodivergent-informed and for me, this has been unhelpful and at times has led to shame and self-blame.

Trying to work out my boundaries and communicate them whilst simultaneously navigating sensory overload, managing social neuronormative expectations, and balancing professional demands, in environments where there was no allowed processing time, has been a struggle and I have sometimes found attempts to uphold personal limits overwhelming.

In addition, in both professional and personal contexts, I, like many other Neurodivergent people I expect, have often been encouraged (or required) to share my lived experiences to advocate for understanding, adjustment or change.

While sharing can and has been empowering at times, it has also blurred boundaries and led to feelings of overexposure or emotional exhaustion.

These are some of the reasons that inspired us to offer a new ‘Understanding Boundaries’ free resource and ‘Understanding Boundaries’ training workshop at Neurodiverse Connection."

Extract from my latest Neurodiverse Connection blog Defining boundaries: A new Neurodivergent-informed resource and training workshop.

My lived experience tells me Descartes was wrong #ifeelthereforeiam

Also that in the beginning wasn't the word (Logos) there was intuition (Eros)

Time to move on from the old men's tales. Imagine what the world & humanity might have been like if we hadn't believed them in the first place.

I feel, therefore I am & shine a light on the epistemic injustice that so many multiply Neurodivergent women, like myself, face.

Epistemic injustice is a type of harm that affects someone in their role as a knower or communicator of knowledge, including when explaining their own experiences.

This kind of injustice often takes place when listeners diminish what is being communicated due to the listener’s (often unconscious) prejudices against the person communicating.

Those of us who feel deeply; who experience deep emotional & somatic empathy, intuitive & psychic insights, & hyper sensitivity to the world - our ways of knowing, feeling & being are too often diminished, misunderstood & excluded from knowledge-making spaces.
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Our knowledge, however, is both valid & legitimate wisdom for humanity.