In this deeply grounding episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord is joined by Will Martin, Nutritional Therapist, former teacher, and late-identified Dyslexic, Autistic ADHDer who helps children, adults and parents regulate their emotions and attention through holistic, evidence-based neurobiology.

Together, Emma and Will explore the unspoken internal world so many neurodivergent people carry: the internal chatter, the “work harder” conditioning, the cycles of anxiety and burnout, the longing for deep connection, and the quiet belief that you’re “not enough.”

Will shares:

• Growing up sensitive, misunderstood and unable to name his struggles
• Internalising everything because no one ever asked what was happening inside
• Late diagnosis of dyslexia, autism and ADHD — and the grief, clarity and identity shift that unfolded
• How chronic anxiety, indecision and burnout were downstream effects of masking
• Why neurodivergent mental health is often physiological and relational, not pathological
• The role nutrition, minerals, the gut-brain axis, hormones and lifestyle play in emotional regulation
• Why safety, not compliance, is the foundation of learning
• How understanding his neurobiology allowed him to parent, work and live more compassionately

Emma and Will unpack the misconceptions around nutrition in ND spaces, and explain why supporting the body is not about fixing, curing or erasing neurodivergence. Instead, it’s about returning safety to the system, reducing overwhelm, and helping individuals access the continuity of who they have always been.

Will also closes the episode by reading his original poem, From Struggle to Strength, a powerful reflection on identity, sensitivity and self-honouring.

This episode is essential listening for anyone navigating burnout, late identification, parenting neurodivergent children, or trying to understand their neurobiology with more compassion and less fear.
Follow Will on his Instagram account here and his website here.