Claire Jacobs
Mind Vox
MindVox is a podcast all about the human mind, with the aim to educate, support and empower. A fully inclusive space that explores mental health, neurodivergence, self-care and wellbeing without judgement. Guests openly discuss their personal journeys with trauma, grief, mental health, neurodivergence and more. Hosted by Claire Jacobs, writer of SingleParentPessimist.co.uk*Warning*We cover topics that can be of a sensitive or triggering nature, and always highlight these on each episode's show notes. We're not medical experts, we're only experts of our own mental health experiences.
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Episodes
Ways to Declutter Your Head: How Mental and Digital Clutter Can Affect Our Wellbeing- Includes Helpful Tips for ADHD, Autistic and Neurotypical Minds. 23.07.2025 1:24:00
Daisy Cordell is a Professional Declutterer and Organiser, specialising in helping people find easier ways to declutter and maintain their homes. Daisy has been on Mind Vox previously (season 1 episode 31) giving advice on decluttering your home. Daisy has created a range of strategies to help both Neurotypical and Neurodivergent people to keep their homes, digital and mental health organised to m...
ADHD Adults Parenting ADHD Kids (Part 2), An Interview with Interior Designer, Hayley Roy 16.07.2025 41:36
This is part two of a 2-part interview. Hayley Roy is an Interior Designer and Entrepreneur, withexperience of running several businesses. She has a son, aged 8 at the time of recording, and two adultstepdaughters. Hayley is currently awaiting ADHD assessment after her son was diagnosed earlier this year with traits she recognises within herself. She has experience of studying NLP and has a Diplom...
ADHD Adults Parenting ADHD Kids (Part 1), An Interview with Interior Designer, Hayley Roy. 09.07.2025 1:05:27
Hayley Roy is an Interior Designer and Entrepreneur, withexperience of running several businesses. She has a son, aged 8 at the time of recording, and two adultstepdaughters. Hayley is currently awaiting ADHD assessment after her son was diagnosed earlier this year with traits she recognises within herself. She has experience of studying NLP and has a Diploma in Business Management. Hayley has com...
Why I've Been Away For So Long: A Season 2 Intro 02.07.2025 22:21
I’m finally back! This is a brief episode to explain why I’ve been away for so long, and to explore what season two will bring. If you want to suggest some pod topics, be on the podcast, or even recommend somebody who would be great for it, please email us at the link below or DM our @ MindVoxPod Instagram. Please subscribe, rate and share us with your friends so we can reach more of our community...
Reflections of a Summer of AUDHD Burnout and Things I’ve Learnt Along the Way. 08.09.2023 33:46
After two months of radio silence, Claire is back with a new Mind Vox episode. This is more of an update to what’s been going on, as well as what she’s learnt through the current issues she’s faced, and what’s coming up for the pod. This episode explores: -Why Claire hasn’t uploaded a pod episode in a while! -Some of the symptoms she’s recognised as Autistic and ADHD Burnout. -Recent transitions t...
Ways to Manage Sensory & Autistic Traits Outdoors: Making Adventures Accessible to Improve Wellbeing for Neurodivergent Adults & Young People. An Interview with Autistic Adventurer Allie Mason 27.06.2023 1:13:53
Allie Mason is a Children’s Author and a Landscape and Training Coordinator. She was diagnosed Autistic at the age of 23 in 2020, and wants to talk about her late-diagnosis journey and what she has put in place to help with the Autistic traits that affect her wellbeing. Allie describes herself as an Autistic Adventurer Extraordinaire, as she finds outdoor adventures help improve her wellbeing. She...
My Depression & Anxiety Was Actually Autistic Burnout: Reflections of Growing Up Undiagnosed, Late-Diagnosis and Parenting Neurodivergent Children. An Interview with Carrie Kearns. 30.05.2023 1:18:25
Carrie Kearns is a Veterinary CPD Tutor and Student Hypnotherapist and Counsellor. They were a Pet Bereavement Counsellor for 22 years and are currently training as a Hypnotherapist. Carrie has two children and is a late diagnosed Autistic who uses They/Them pronouns. They were misdiagnosed with depression and anxiety before getting an Autism diagnosis, and their experience within the mental healt...
How Trauma & Tension Releasing Exercises Can Improve Physical & Mental Health: Includes Somatic TRE Tips and Tools. An Interview with TRE® Provider Sylvia Tillmann 17.05.2023 53:01
Sylvia Tillmann is a TRE® (Trauma & Tension Releasing Exercises) Provider, specialising in teaching therapeutic ways to improve physical and mental wellbeing. She’s founder of Tremendous TRE®, and is also trained in counselling, Jikiden Reiki and Laughter Yoga. Sylvia feels that people hold too much tension in their bodies which can manifest in many forms, from chronic physical pain to mental...
Changing The Narrative: Educating Teens About Consent and Gender Equality, and Creating Positive Representations of Women and Autism in Literature. An Interview with Author, Sue Bordley. 03.05.2023 52:31
Sue Bordley is an Author, Teacher and mother to two teenage sons. She’s Autistic, which was discovered when her children were formally diagnosed with Autism. Sue’s self-diagnosed, and has some experience of the stigma surrounding self-diagnosis. Sue’s taught English at secondary school for 26 years, whilst also writing novels for adults and teenagers. Her latest book, Sweet Like Candy, feature...
Recovering from Childhood Sexual Abuse By My Father: How I Healed and Found My Voice. An Interview with Lauren Sullivan 26.04.2023 1:07:42
Lauren Sullivan is a mother of two young daughters and is founder and illustrator of Loz Creates. She grew up without her father, until he came into her life when she was a teenager. He then groomed Lauren, supplied her with drugs, and abused her frequently. Lauren’s father was aware he was HIV-positive at the time. Lauren has Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), Anxiety and Borderline...
Create the Life You Love: How to Reconnect with Yourself and Make Positive Changes Using Vision Boards (Includes tips for ADHD & Autistics): An Interview with Vanessa Buck. 17.04.2023 1:01:01
Vanessa is a Vision Board Mentor and trained life coach, who specialises in helping people reconnect with how they want their life to be, if they’ve become overwhelmed or lost. She was a successful business owner for 25 years and raised two children whilst experiencing grief, loss and serious illness. With all of these factors at play, she began to feel stuck, so Vanessa tried vision boards and ma...
Narcissistic Parents: How They Present and Ways to Release Childhood Traumas Caused By Them. An Interview with Brooke Bownes. 27.03.2023 1:01:02
Brooke Bownes is a Therapist, Brainspotting Practitioner and Trauma Coach, specialising in narcissistic abuse. Throughout her life, Brooke has personal experience of trauma from a Narcissistic mother, a lack of self-confidence and imposter syndrome, until she found strategies to heal herself. Referred to as the Trauma Breakthrough Queen, Brooke has also written a self-help book about the self-sabo...
Natural Ways to Improve Self-Care and Self-Compassion to Reduce Burnouts: Interview with Functional Medicine Health Coach, Suzy Glaskie. 20.03.2023 59:58
Suzy Glaskie is a Functional Medicine Health Coach and Founder of Peppermint Wellness. During her career as a PR boss, Suzy became underweight, exhausted and constantly burnt-out. Suzy believes her previous career created toxic stress hormones that led to a constant flood of inflammation in her body. These health conditions and death of her father led Suzy to retrain as a health coach, where she l...
Navigating Neurodivergent Sensory Issues: ADHD and Autism-Friendly Tips for Cooking, PIP Forms, Talking to Medical Professionals and More. An interview with Lydia Wilkins. 11.03.2023 1:04:08
Lydia Wilkins is a freelance journalist, author and speaker, covering topics including disability, neurodivergence and social issues. She’s been featured in publications such as The Independent and The Metro. Lydia is Autistic and has recently published a book called The Autism-Friendly Cookbook, for Autistic adults and teenagers to use on low-energy/ burnout days, or when needing inspiration. The...
Am I Autistic as well as ADHD? Opening the Conversation About Female Autism 04.03.2023 42:09
After a two week break, Claire is back to talk a bit about Autism and how it can present in women, based upon her own research and experiences. Claire was diagnosed with ADHD a year ago, but has spent a year researching Autism which she now also identifies with. This episode explores: -How ADHD and Autism are common to have as dual diagnosis for up to 70% of people. -Claire’s own experience of ADH...
Neurodivergence and Mental Health in the Workplace: Ways to Make Workspaces More Inclusive to Maintain Wellbeing. An Interview with Workspace Consultant Kirsty Hayward 10.02.2023 59:21
Kirsty Hayward is a Workspace Consultant who focuses on adapting workplaces to improve staff wellbeing, mental health and productivity. After years of working long hours, lockdown showed Kirsty she needed to make changes for her own health. She resigned and set up her own business, putting her health and wellbeing first, which naturally increased her work performance and productivity. During this...
Amplifying the Female Voices of Late-Diagnosed ADHD: An Interview with ADHD As Females Podcast Creators, Dawn and Laura. 03.02.2023 1:09:07
Dawn-Marie Farmer and Laura Mears-Reynolds moved to the same street, at the same time, at the same age, and had the same undiagnosed disability. After discovering the impact that undiagnosed ADHD had on their lives, and the high numbers of mis/undiagnosed ADHD women who've endured the same struggle, they created a podcast to raise awareness and break the stigma around neurodivergence. ADHD As Fema...
How To Support Children and Teenagers Grieving Significant Loss: Includes Advice For Supporting ADHD & Autistic Young People. An Interview with Clinical Psychologist, Dr Marianne Trent. 27.01.2023 1:00:25
Dr Marianne Trent is a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in Grief and Trauma therapy, and the author of The Grief Collective. During her career, Dr Trent has worked with NHS adults’ and children’s mental health teams, and now supports trainee psychologists, which includes hosting The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. Dr Trent has come onto the pod to talk about how grief can affect us all, but in p...
How to Find Depth in Everyday Life: Practical Strategies to Give Your Life More Meaning, Purpose and Intention. An Interview with Existential Therapist, Eloise Skinner 20.01.2023 51:20
Eloise Skinner is an Existential Therapist, Author, Teacher and Business Founder Studying at Cambridge and training at Oxford, Eloise began in corporate law before spending a year in a Monastic Community training as a monk and now focusing on Existentialism (living with intention). Eloise is also a Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher and has presented a TEDx talk about life meaning, purpose a...
How Clutter Affects Wellbeing: Why It’s Hard to Let Go of Stuff and Ways to Make Decluttering Easier (Including ADHD strategies). Interview with Daisy Cordell. 13.01.2023 1:00:57
Daisy Cordell is a Professional Declutterer and Organiser, specialising in helping people find easier ways to declutter and maintain their homes. She believes clutter can negatively affect daily wellbeing, and understands how overwhelming it can be to try to declutter. Decluttering has always been a hobby for Daisy, and during lockdown she turned this passion into a business, called Whole and Home...
Dopamine Dressing: How to Use Colour to Improve Wellbeing, Reduce Anxiety and Boost Confidence. An Interview with Uplifting Personal Stylist, Abbey Booth. 06.01.2023 1:05:08
Abbey Booth is an Uplifting Personal Stylist, and founder of Stories With Clothes. Abbey believes the colours we wear can have positive or negative effects on our wellbeing and confidence. She feels colour can be used to boost our mood and energy, provide a sense of direction or protection, and reduce anxiety. Clothing can also boost dopamine for those with ADHD and/or Autistic. Abbey is also a co...
Surviving Christmas with ADHD and Autism: Useful Tips to Manage Relationships, Parties, Gifts and Festive Expectations. 17.12.2022 42:54
Christmas can be a confusing, overwhelming and stressful time for those with ADHD and Autism. These neurological conditions are largely ‘invisible’ and misunderstood by many, so the challenges we face are often overlooked by society during times like Christmas. It can be mentally and even physically painful, with the festive traditions and expectations causing more stress and anxiety than we usual...
My ADHD Late Diagnosis Journey, Masking and Self-Diagnosis Using Social Media: An Interview with Louise Williams. 02.12.2022 58:11
Louise Williams is a well-known blogger and ADHD content creator across social media and even appearing on BBC’s The One Show about late diagnosis in women. To support this community, Louise runs a Facebook support group for late diagnosed ADHD adults and has recently opened a wellbeing gym in her local area. Louise is a single parent to two children aged 10 and 12, and has regularly talked online...
The Importance of Intuition and How to Build Your Intuitive Muscle: An Interview with Ambila Nath 25.11.2022 59:36
Ambila Nath is a Spiritual Business Coach, entrepreneur, international speaker and award-winning magazine editor. Known for her straight-talking spirituality, Ambila went from a high-paid corporate job to building a business based on Spirituality. She believes the most incredible journey you can take is the one in building a relationship with yourself, which starts with healing from within. In ord...
Being an Indian Woman with ADHD: How Culture, Gender and ADHD Stigmas Affected My Diagnosis Journey and Mental Health. 18.11.2022 1:01:58
Priyanka Patel is a Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist, and was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult this year. She is using personal and scientific knowledge to educate and raise awareness about ADHD across social media. Priyanka is also currently campaigning to make a change within the UK Healthcare System for the Neurodivergent community. This episode explores: -What ADHD is and how this neurological...
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