About this episode

This episode discusses the unique challenges faced by autistic women in high-conflict co-parenting situations and the effects on their nervous systems.

In this episode, we explore:• Why high-conflict co-parenting is uniquely dysregulatingfor autistic women• How ASD nervous systems respond to unpredictability and coparenting conflict• Why your body may feel constantly “on alert” after narcissistic abuse• Hypervigilance, overthinking, fawning, and emotional exhaustion• The impact of high-conflict coparenting on sleep, sensory overwhelm, executive functioning, your parenting bandwidth, and your work capacity.• Why autistic women often mask, fawn, or over-explain under stress• How nervous system dysregulation affects communication and legal strategy• Why emotional detachment is difficult when the body still feels unsafe Welcome to Season 3 of Light in the Battle : InnerStability — a podcast for autistic women healing from narcissistic abuse, where we become clearer, calmer, and spiritually and legally harder to mess with. In Season 2, we focused on Emotional Detachment:* Breaking the Trauma Bond * PTSD and CPTSD recovery * forgiveness , not reconciliation* codependency as a general concept but more specifically in autistic women here .* the importance of fellowship and mentorship * gratitude after narcissistic abuse * surrender *…

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