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- 2026
- First episode
About Home Is Where The Body Is
Hi, I’m Jenn. I’m AuDHD and live with cPTSD, OCD, Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and POTS. I grew up in a religious cult and spent years searching for love and belonging. I eventually learned the home I was seeking wasn’t a place or another person, but a relationship with my body, nervous system, and myself. In this podcast, I share lived experiences of trauma, inner child care, and learning to give myself safety. I’m not a mental health professional, just a very marginalized engineer offering reflection and companionship. Content warnings provided.
- Publisher
- Jenn
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Feb 2026
- Latest episode
- 22 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
19 episodes in the feed.
22 Jul 2026
One Person Can't Change the World (And That's the Point)
In this episode, I explore how letting go of the belief that I had to single-handedly change the world became the thing that finally let me exist without earning it. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: The myth of the individual effort (00:55) Tired of celebrating great men (04:24) Existing in systems that prefer we didn’t (09:07) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
8 Jul 2026
It Was Never Your Brain: Rethinking Mental Health, Trauma, and Who Gets to Define "Well"
In this episode, I explore how the mental health system's obsession with fixing individual brain chemistry kept me from understanding that my symptoms were never random, but rather rational responses to environments designed to harm people like me. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: What the system told me was wrong with me (00:55) Why your brain was never the problem (12:47) From "what's wrong with you" to "what was done to you” (20:00) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
24 Jun 2026
Why DEI Doesn't Work, And Was Never Supposed To
In this episode, I explore how DEI initiatives, despite their stated purpose, function as a sophisticated mechanism of the systems they claim to dismantle — selecting for compliance, gatekeeping dissent, and abandoning the most marginalized through the very architecture of participation. I reflect on how my experience of this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Renovation rather than demolition (00:55) Filtering, gatekeeping, and compliance (10:34) Moral indemnity and the road out (20:46) Resources mentioned: https://neuroqueer.com/throw-away-the-masters-tools/ (https://neuroqueer.com/throw-away-the-masters-tools/) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
10 Jun 2026
Coercive Dependency: The Real Reason You're Blamed for Needing Support
In this episode, I explore coercive dependency, the system that weaponizes your need for support against you, and how separating 'needing help' from 'being at fault’ is necessary. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: What is coercive dependency and why it's not your fault (00:55) The burning frustration of being required to contort (14:35) Separating needing support from being at fault (24:06) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
27 May 2026
What Online Dating Taught Me About Safety, Trauma, and Self-Reliance
In this episode, I explore how my experience of dating exposed deep trauma patterns around love and safety. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: No one owes me a relationship (00:55) Self-reliance: I can be my own parent and savior (09:31) Removing external conditions for feeling complete (16:34) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
13 May 2026
Unlearning People-Pleasing After Parentification: Practical Steps to Stop Caretaking and Build Healthy Boundaries
In this episode, I explore practical tips for re-parenting and self-regulating after a parentified childhood. I talk about: Release schedule update (00:55) Summary of previous parentification episode (01:34) Reiterating tips shared in previous episode (05:02) Continuing list of tips for re-parenting and self-regulating (06:38) Summary of list (24:18) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
29 Apr 2026
Parentification, Emotional Burnout, and Reparenting: How to Stop Managing Everyone Else and Start Regulating Yourself
In this episode, I explore how recognizing the parentification of my childhood allowed me to leave behind obligatory caretaking in adult relationships. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: When Caretaking Replaces Childhood (00:54) How It Rewrites Adult Relationships (6:21) Reparenting and Nervous System Reset (11:36) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
22 Apr 2026
AuDHD, Trauma, and Ehlers-Danlos: How I Learned to Trust My Body Again
In this episode, I explore how years of misdiagnosis and medical minimization shaped my understanding of autism, chronic illness, and identity. I reflect on how this influenced my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Connecting the dots of misdiagnosis and minimization (00:54) Moving from self-doubt to self-recognition(12:27) Building safety in a dismissive system (20:05) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. This podcast also has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is (https://www.youtube.com/@home-is-where-the-body-is) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
15 Apr 2026
From Control to Boundaries: Attachment Trauma, Autonomy & Safety
In this episode, I explore how recognizing that I couldn’t change other people freed me up to detach from unhealthy dynamics more quickly, and invest in relationships that genuinely support me. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: I can’t change others (00:54) Relearning love and attachment (2:13) Safety, boundaries, and letting go (11:52) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
8 Apr 2026
How to Detach from Toxic Workplaces (Autism, Trauma, AuDHD Perspective)
In this episode, I explore how to emotionally detach from discriminatory workplaces. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Summary of last week’s episode (00:54) A bit more on neurotype as a protected class (03:38) How to emotionally detach (10:07) Resources mentioned: Study of sexism in the software industry: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10555 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10555) Challenges for autistic women in the workplace: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27927031/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27927031/) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
1 Apr 2026
Why Workplaces Feel Impossible as an Autistic Woman
In this episode, I explore how “misaugyny” put a chip on my shoulder very early in my working life. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Naming “misaugyny” (00:54) When systemic bias puts a chip on your shoulder (07:53) Autistic women statistics (13:43) Resources mentioned: “Misaugyny” - https://medium.com/@autieadventures/misaugyny-the-relationship-between-misogyny-and-autism-e6d7df8a39a4 (https://medium.com/@autieadventures/misaugyny-the-relationship-between-misogyny-and-autism-e6d7df8a39a4) “Autistiphobia” - https://autismspectrumnews.org/this-is-what-autistiphobia-looks-like-why-autistic-advocacy-matters/ (https://autismspectrumnews.org/this-is-what-autistiphobia-looks-like-why-autistic-advocacy-matters/) Why female autism is questioned - https://embrace-autism.com/why-female-autism-is-questioned/ (https://embrace-autism.com/why-female-autism-is-questioned/) Danish suicide study - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774853 (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774853) French sexual violence study - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9087551/ (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9087551/) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
25 Mar 2026
Creative Self-Expression for Nervous System Healing: Why Making “Bad" Art Matters
In this episode, I explore what I’ve learned from my attempts at content creation. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: The inherent value of self-expression (00:54) The value of “bad” art (04:02) The many benefits of creative self-expression (05:39) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
18 Mar 2026
Anti-Diet, Body Trauma & Unlearning the Myth That Worth Is Measured in Numbers
In this episode, I explore my eye-opening reaction to the book Anti-Diet. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Anti-Diet (00:54) Worth is not measured by numbers on a scale, or paycheck (12:14) I AM okay, not I will be okay (20:32) Body positivity within the patriarchy (27:49) Resources mentioned: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison Weight stigma is stressful: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24997407/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24997407/) (Explains how weight stigma itself contributes to physiological stress and poorer health outcomes independent of BMI) Long-term Effects of Dieting: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12076 (https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12076) (A review revealing that dieting rarely leads to long-term weight loss and often doesn’t improve health outcomes) Long term maintenance of weight loss …: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25134100/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25134100/) (Shows that even with structured programs, most people regain lost weight over time, with limited evidence of long-term maintenance) The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
11 Mar 2026
Survival Mode to Alignment: Nervous System Healing & Prioritizing My True Self
In this episode, I explore shifting from prioritizing survival for survival’s sake, to prioritizing alignment with my true self. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Living in alignment with true self (01:36) Liberation from outcome attachment (22:10) An internal anchor, existential integrity (27:47) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
4 Mar 2026
Religious Trauma, Control & Breaking the Link Between Love and Self-Erasure
In this episode, I explore how a shift from the Christianity of my childhood to non-theistic Satanism allowed me to break the internalized link between love, control, and self-erasure. I reflect on how this shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: A new blog! (00:54) When choice is not a choice (02:29) Reclaiming belonging to myself first (08:14) From external to internal validation (15:36) This episode is created from an unedited writing fragment on my blog. Visit What My Connective Tissue Knows (https://piquant-radiator-e92.notion.site/What-My-Connective-Tissue-Knows-2f8eaba735ac8003bafcfc58a8f14f11?source=copy_link) to read more. How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
25 Feb 2026
Family Court, Institutional Gaslighting & Reclaiming My Sense of Safety
In this episode, I explore institutional gaslighting in the context of family court, specifically my mother’s failed attempt to divorce my father when I was a kid. I reflect on how recognizing and learning about institutional gaslighting shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Gaslighting in court (00:54) Recognizing institutional gaslighting (06:21) Emotionally detaching to reclaim safety (14:04) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
18 Feb 2026
Empathy vs. Boundaries in Generational Trauma
In this episode, I explore how recognizing the humanity in my abusers allowed me to build empathy for them, and to simultaneously set firmer boundaries with them. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: My abusers were human, CW: suicide and physical/sexual abuse (00:54) But empathy is not obligation (10:01) It’s about boundaries (22:02) How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
11 Feb 2026
How Pattern Recognition Helped Me Reframe Trauma, Neurodivergence & Alienation
In this episode, I explore how recognizing the interaction between neurodivergence, physical disability, and generation trauma gave me the power to shift the narrative relating to my lifelong sense of alienation. I reflect on how it shaped my journey toward being able to honestly say that home is wherever I am right now. I talk about: Recognizing the pattern (00:54) Shifting the narrative (07:06) Reclaiming internal power (17:09) Resources mentioned: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly How to contact me: You’re welcome to share reflections, feedback, or thoughts at homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com (mailto:homeiswherethebodyis@gmail.com) If this episode was meaningful to you: Leaving an honest review or sharing it with someone who might find it helpful is the best way to support this work.
4 Feb 2026
Trailer: Home is Where the Body is
Home is Where the Body Is is my reflective podcast about searching for home, and slowly realizing it’s something built from the inside out. I’m Jenn, an autistic woman living with complex trauma and chronic illness. Through specific moments and lived experience, I explore trauma processing, nervous system repair, inner child care, and the lifelong work of becoming my own first and truest home. New episodes every Wednesday. If you’ve ever felt like home was just out of reach, you’re welcome here.
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