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NeuroDiverse Christian Couples

NeuroDiverse Christian Couples

By: Dr. Stephanie Holmes
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 Like all couples, NeuroDiverse (AS/NT) Christian couples face challenges with communication and connection. Those challenges are nuanced in a way that most couples, therapists, and clergy don't typically recognize. Often NeuroDiverse Couples have children on the spectrum (or or other differences), this podcast will dedicate topics to the NeuroDiverse Couple as well as issues that may arise in spectrum or special needs family systems. We invite you to learn about NeuroDiverse Christian couples to understand those aspects more fully.2021+ Dr. Stephanie and Dan Holmes Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Resolving Old Trauma Impacting Your Marriage Now with Immanuel with Dr. Karl Lehman

    Resolving Old Trauma Impacting Your Marriage Now with Immanuel with Dr. Karl Lehman
    Nov 3 2025
    We are welcoming back Dr. Lehman with so much positive feedback about his first time on the show. Last show with Dr. Karl, we specifically spoke about the trauma from the perspective of the non-autistic woman married to an autistic man. Today, we shift the focus to potential traumas the autistic man may have, where simple feedback and simple emotions can trigger trauma in the autistic spouse, with a brief discussion on brain anatomy and how trauma develops and the differences in processing in the autistic brain. While we did not get enough time to go through all the steps of healing, we introduce that laying new circuits are possible and healing old trauma and wounds is possible!
    About Our Guest:
    Dr. Karl Lehman is a board-certified psychiatrist with 35+ years of experience and more than 40,000 hours of clinical experience. He has worked tenaciously throughout his career to integrate his personal Christian faith with medical science, modern mental health care, and his rigorous scientific training. He has researched and worked to integrate faith-based emotional healing with insights from psychological and neurological research. Dr. Lehman is also deeply committed to his own growth and healing.
    Dr. Lehman has been married to Charlotte for over 30 years, and they work as a team to apply everything they learn about growth and healing in the context of their marriage.
    Author of Outsmarting Yourself and The Immanuel Approach.
    Podcast links from podcasts we mentioned about autistic brain neurology:
    Pt 1 with Dr. Lehman
    https://www.spreaker.com/episode/unresolved-trauma-s-impact-on-marriage-with-dr-karl-lehman--66548811
    Enemy Mode with Dr. Wilder
    https://www.spreaker.com/episode/escaping-enemy-mode-with-dr-jim-wilder--52449734
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    58 mins
  • Humility & Sacred Attachment with Michael John Cusick

    Humility & Sacred Attachment with Michael John Cusick
    Oct 27 2025
    Our guest was identified on the autism spectrum with the label he prefers, Asperger's Syndrome, and began his identification journey of what it means to be on the spectrum. As we conclude this month's focus on attachment, Michael shares from his book, Sacred Attachment, that discovering God's love, affection, and delight in us was life-changing. Michael shares many insights, but leans in on his definition of humility and how it is key to attachment to oneself and others.
    About our Guest:
    Michael John Cusick
    Michael John Cusick is the CEO and founder of Restoring the Soul, an intensive counseling ministry in Denver. He is a licensed professional counselor, spiritual director, and former assistant professor of counseling at Colorado Christian University. Michael is the author of Surfing for God, and his articles have appeared in prominent publications such as Relevant, The Huffington Post, and Red Letter Christians. He and his wife, Julianne, have two grown children and live in Littleton, Colorado. You can find out more about Michael and his resources at: https://restoringthesoul.com/
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    59 mins
  • Self-Attunement, Lament & Developing Your iSight with Marlene Allen

    Self-Attunement, Lament & Developing Your iSight with Marlene Allen
    Oct 20 2025
    Continuing this month's topic on attachment and attunement, we have with us today the Life Model Works Executive Director, Marlene Allen. So many of our clients and listeners ask how I can have joy in pain or return to joy when things seem hopeless. Isn't that like just being happy and faking it until you make it?
    No!
    Today, we talk about adversity, pain, and lament, and how they differ from complaining and venting, which are stuck in disgust or contempt. Lament is a release and offering, and complaining amplifies your pain and can blind you.
    So join our discussion today to learn more about:
    • Self-attunment

    • Attunement to God and developing iSight, is Immanuel always with me?

    • How does pain impact me?

    • Lamenting vs Complaining

    About our Guest:
    Marlene Allen currently serves as the Executive Director of Life Model Works. She is an author, teacher, mentor, networker, licensed minister, and joy-starter. She graduated from McNeese State University in her home state of Louisiana. Her passion for teaching spiritual principles to young people led to a forty-plus-year journey of serving in schools and churches. During her 16-year service as a missionary in Southeast Asia, Marlene was introduced to Life Model Works and finally found the language to articulate the value of joy that she carried within her.
    Before becoming executive director, Marlene was a relational practitioner and served on the Life Model Works Board of Directors. She firmly believes that Life Model Works’ relational tools will help us better represent the Lord on the Earth.
    Residing in Aurora, Colorado, Marlene is a mom to four amazing adults, Rachell, Victoria, Kia, and Moses, and is called ‘Momma Marlene’ by a host of others. She is the creator of Doodles at Relational Wholeness Doodles and the author of the children’s book Candlestick City, available on Amazon.

    Life Model: https://lifemodelworks.org/neurotheology/
    Many of Dan & Stephanie's courses use Life Model Books or ministry partners such as Deeper Walk or Thrive Works.
    Chapter 5 of Uiquely Us relies on some of these principles!
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    55 mins
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