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ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Kate Moryoussef

Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships?

If so, the ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This multi-award-winning podcast, which won Gold in the Parenting category at the British Podcast Awards 2026, is hosted by Kate Moryoussef, an ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author, EFT practitioner, mum of four, and late-in-life diagnosed with ADHD herself.

Each week, thousands of women just like you tune in to hear Kate chat with top ADHD experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors. Their powerful insights will help you harness your health and enhance your life as a woman with ADHD.

From tips on nutrition, sleep and motivation to guidance on regulating your nervous system, dealing with anxiety and living a calmer and more balanced life, you’ll find it all here.

The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast will help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance. It’s time to put an end to self-criticism, judgment and blame – and get ready to live a kinder and more authentic life.

“Mindblowing guests!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Brilliant and so life-affirming” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“So, so grateful for this!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Obsessed with this pod on ADHD!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ORDER NOW! Kate's new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit! https://www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk/adhd-womens-wellbeing-toolkit

In The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, Kate Moryoussef shares the psychology and science behind the challenges faced by women with ADHD and lays out a roadmap for you to uncover your authentic self.

With practical lifestyle tools on how to manage mental, emotional, physical, and hormonal burnout and lean into your unique strengths to create more energy, joy, and creativity, this book will help you (re)learn to not only live with this brain difference but also thrive with it.

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  • #350
    Monday · 23 min

    After an ADHD Diagnosis: How to Build a Life That Feels More Like You

    Join me live in Manchester this December for The Next Chapter — an immersive event for women ready to move beyond understanding their ADHD and explore what comes next with more confidence, self-compassion and permission to be themselves. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more: Book your place here⁠. ________________________________________ You understand your ADHD. So… what now? There can be such enormous relief in finally understanding your brain. The patterns make more sense. The struggles have context. You might start looking at your past, your relationships and even your family through a completely different lens. But at some point, another question starts to appear: What do I actually do with all of this understanding? In today’s More Yourself episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m sharing something I’ve been developing inside my workshops and that sits right at the heart of my upcoming The Next Chapter live experience. It’s called the SAFER framework, and it’s designed to help you look at your life differently now that you understand yourself better. This will provide you with a way of getting curious about what supports you, what drains you, what you’re forcing, what you might be ready to let go of and what you want more of moving forwards. This episode is really about intentionality. Helping you notice the environments where you feel calmer. The people you feel most yourself around. The commitments that leave you depleted. The places where you might need more freedom, more space or more support. Because understanding your ADHD is one thing but using that understanding to make choices that genuinely work for you is something else entirely. And that’s where my upcoming event, The Next Chapter Begins, comes in. In this episode, we cover: Moving beyond ADHD awareness and asking what comes next Why understanding your ADHD can change how you see your past, relationships and family Introducing Kate’s SAFER framework How to notice what supports you and what leaves you feeling depleted Why your physical and emotional environment matters Giving yourself permission to stop living according to who you think you should be Reducing commitments and stepping away from always being the fixer Asking for help and allowing other people to support you Creating more room for what genuinely matters Understanding your energy and recognising when you’re pushing too far The importance of rest, white space and nervous system recovery Building a life that feels more like your own Life Threads podcast: To Listen to the Life Threads podcast on Apple click the link HERE and to listen on Spotify click the link HERE Timestamps: 00:00 - Why understanding your ADHD is only the beginning 00:50 - The question: what comes next? 01:15 - Introducing the SAFER framework 02:10 - A different way of looking at your life 02:35 - The Next Chapter live ADHD Women’s Wellbeing event 04:00 - Moving from understanding into intentional living 05:20 - Exploring what helps you feel calmer and more supported 08:10 - Simplifying and reducing unnecessary choices 08:30 - Living more on your own terms 09:00 - What helps you feel most like yourself? 09:35 - Stepping away from decades of masking and “shoulds” 10:00 - Reducing commitments and letting go of the fixer role 10:25 - Learning to ask for help 11:00 - Creating more room for what matters 13:20 - Understanding your energy and capacity 14:15 - Protecting your energy and reducing the extremes 15:00 - Cortisol, adrenaline and knowing when you need to come back down 16:35 - One way to protect your energy this week 17:00 - Rest, recovery and recalibration 17:10 - Why ADHD brains need time to decompress 18:00 - Glimmers, nervous system regulation and meaningful connection 19:00 - More Yourself and continuing to understand yourself through a neurodivergent lens Links and Resources: Find my ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources here. Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, here. Find out more about The Next Chapter event and book your place here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod. Kate Moryoussef is an ADHD women's wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #349
    Thursday · 48 min

    The ADHD Sweet Spot: How to Find Work and a Life You Don’t Need to Recover From

    You understand your ADHD. But what happens when you’re ready to live differently? Join me live in Manchester this December for The Next Chapter — an immersive event for women ready to move beyond understanding their ADHD and explore what comes next with more confidence, self-compassion and permission to be themselves. All surrounded by neurodivergent women who truly get it. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more and book your place. ______________________________________ In today’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I sit down with Amy Marie Hann, author of Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home and Family as a Mom with ADHD. And this conversation is for anyone who can do really big, complicated, creative things… but still feels completely floored by the dishwasher, laundry, meals, forms, life admin and all the tiny repetitive jobs that somehow never stop coming. Amy was diagnosed with ADHD at just five years old, and ADHD runs through her whole family. But even with that early diagnosis, medication and years of understanding her brain, adulthood still brought a whole new layer of challenges. The mental load. The overwhelm. The pressure to keep everything running. The feeling that everyone else seems to be managing it better. Then perimenopause hit, and everything got harder. We talk about why so many ADHD women swing between over-functioning and burnout, why complicated productivity systems rarely stick, and why the answer might not be becoming more organised or disciplined at all. Amy shares how she learned to simplify, work with her actual capacity and focus on the small number of boring-but-important things that keep life moving. This is a very practical conversation, but it’s also such a compassionate one. Because if you’ve ever looked around your house, your to-do list or your family life and thought, Why can’t I just keep on top of this? — there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. You may just be trying to carry far too much. In this episode, we cover: Being diagnosed with ADHD at five, and what Amy understood — and didn’t understand — about ADHD growing up Why medication helped with school and focus but didn’t teach the life skills needed for adulthood How perimenopause can intensify ADHD symptoms, even when you already understand your diagnosis ADHD medication alongside sleep, exercise, lifestyle support and practical strategies Losing confidence in your abilities and choosing an “easier” path because of ADHD Finding the ADHD “sweet spot” between intense challenge, boredom and burnout Why ADHD brains may need meaningful challenge without an unsustainable pace Building work and a life around your energy instead of expecting eight-hour-a-day productivity Why ADHD mothers carry such a heavy mental load Unrealistic expectations, perfectionism and the feeling of never doing enough Why everything can feel urgent when prioritisation is difficult The cycle of long to-do lists, overdoing it and burnout Applying compassionate parenting strategies to yourself Amy’s “taxing tasks” approach and identifying the boring things that genuinely matter Why new planners and complicated systems often work temporarily because novelty is doing the heavy lifting Reducing daily executive-function demands by making basic routines repeatable Defining “good enough” instead of aiming for a perfectly organised home Why understanding your capacity matters more than copying someone else’s routine Simplifying when outsourcing isn’t financially realistic ADHD, motherhood and the shame attached to domestic expectations Sharing the load with partners and finding the household tasks that suit each person The power of ADHD women finding spaces where they can ask honest questions without shame Life Threads podcast: To Listen to the Life Threads podcast on Apple click the link HERE and to listen on Spotify click the link HERE Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Amy Marie Hann 02:00 - Being diagnosed with ADHD at five 03:00 - What an early diagnosis did — and didn’t — explain 04:00 - ADHD, adulthood and perimenopause 05:00 - Medication, school and self-belief 08:00 - Medication, lifestyle and practical strategies 09:30 - Finding the right pace for an ADHD brain 10:30 - The cycle of challenging work, boredom and burnout 11:30 - Finding your ADHD sweet spot 13:00 - Trying different paths and discovering what fits 15:00 - Building work around your actual energy 16:00 - Why your best work may not require eight-hour days 17:00 - Finding something you can stay interested in 18:00 - ADHD, organisation and the myth that every ADHD woman looks the same 20:00 - Perfectionism, over-functioning and coping behaviours 21:00 - The mental load of ADHD motherhood 22:00 - Unrealistic expectations and the endless to-do list 23:00 - Parenting yourself with more compassion 24:00 - The six or seven boring things that matter 25:00 - Why complicated systems fail 26:00 - Executive-function energy and removing daily decisions 27:00 - Amy’s three daily “taxing tasks” 28:00 - Working full-time, parenting and the pressure to do everything 29:00 - Self-care, capacity and realistic expectations 30:00 - Letting things go and simplifying 31:00 - Replacing shame with “good enough” 32:00 - Domestic expectations and ADHD women 33:00 - Sharing household responsibilities 34:00 - Knowing your capacity before dividing the load 36:00 - Master the Mundane and Amy’s practical framework 37:00 - Coaching, body doubling and accountability 39:00 - Why ADHD community can reduce shame 41:00 - Where to find Amy and her work Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Visit Amy’s website: amymariehann.com Follow Amy on Instagram: @amymariehann Get Amy’s free resource, Thriving in Motherhood, here Find Amy’s book, Master the Mundane: How to Manage Your Life, Home and Family as a Mom with ADHD. Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #348
    October 21 · 1 hr 4 min

    40 Years of ADHD: What Pioneer Dr Kathleen Nadeau Has Learned About ADHD Women, Late Diagnosis & Thriving

    You're understanding your ADHD. But what happens when you’re ready to actually live differently? Join me live in Manchester this December for The Next Chapter — an immersive event for women ready to move beyond understanding their ADHD and explore what comes next with more confidence, self-compassion and permission to be themselves. All surrounded by like-minded neurodivergent women who truly get it. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more: Book your place here⁠. ________________________________________ For decades, ADHD research focused overwhelmingly on hyperactive boys while girls and women with ADHD were missed, misdiagnosed or told they were anxious or depressed. ADHD expert, Dr Kathleen Nadeau has spent more than 40 years helping to change our understanding of ADHD in women. On this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by internationally recognised clinical psychologist, author and ADHD pioneer Kathleen G. Nadeau, PhD. Kathleen has written or co-authored 18 books on ADHD and was awarded the CHADD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. Her ground breaking work has helped bring ADHD in girls, women and older adults into a conversation that once centred almost entirely on hyperactive young boys. And having ADHD herself, alongside decades of clinical experience and generations of ADHD within her own family, Kathleen brings a perspective that goes far beyond diagnostic criteria. We talk about what ADHD looked like when Kathleen entered the field in the 1970s, why so many intelligent girls and women were missed and what happens when a woman spends her life believing she simply needs to try harder. We also get into hormones, perimenopause and postpartum mental health, the physical conditions increasingly being seen alongside ADHD and why our healthcare systems still struggle when women’s physical and mental health needs intersect. But this isn’t only a conversation about what has gone wrong. Kathleen talks beautifully about finding the environment in which your ADHD brain can thrive, the healing that can come with a later-life diagnosis and why women need connection with other women who finally understand. You do not have to spend the rest of your life trying to make yourself fit the wrong environment. Sometimes, you need to plant yourself in a different garden. ________________________________________ In this episode, we cover: How our understanding of ADHD has changed since Kathleen began working in the field in the late 1970s Why ADHD was once seen almost entirely as a condition affecting hyperactive young boys The moment Kathleen began recognising ADHD in parents, adults and within her own family Why bright, high-achieving children can have ADHD even when they're doing exceptionally well academically Looking beyond traditional ADHD diagnostic criteria to understand the wider experience How girls and women with ADHD were overlooked and the work that began changing that Rejection sensitivity, feeling different and the impact of growing up without an explanation for your ADHD Why ADHD can be both challenging and a source of curiosity, connection and different ways of thinking Whether our schools and workplaces are asking ADHD brains to function in environments that don't suit them ADHD hormones, puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause and why the research is still catching up Why women's ADHD symptoms have so often been misdiagnosed as anxiety or depression What happens when psychiatry, women's health and other areas of medicine operate in separate silos The physical conditions and health difficulties increasingly being seen alongside ADHD Why connection with other ADHD women can be such an important part of healing Receiving an ADHD diagnosis in your 60s, 70s or later, and navigating grief for the life you might have lived Why a late diagnosis can offer more healing than regret Kathleen's “right garden” approach and finding the environments, relationships and work where you can thrive High-achieving ADHD women who hold everything together at work before collapsing behind closed doors The invisible expectations still placed on women to manage families, homes, relationships and emotional labour Why ADHD treatment needs to go beyond medication, coaching or therapy in isolation Learning to care for yourself, follow your heart and stop measuring yourself by how well you meet everyone else's needs Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Kathleen Nadeau 02:25 - Kathleen's personal ADHD “learning lab” 04:00 - Working with ADHD since the late 1970s 06:00 - How ADHD diagnosis and treatment looked in the early days 07:00 - Realising adults didn't simply grow out of ADHD 09:30 - Writing some of the earliest books about ADHD 11:20 - Who was being missed? 12:00 - Gifted children, hidden ADHD and looking beyond school performance 13:00 - Looking beyond the diagnostic criteria 15:00 - What the early ADHD criteria left out 16:00 - Rejection sensitivity and why girls changed the conversation 17:00 - Kathleen's pioneering work on ADHD in women and girls 18:00 - What decades of following ADHD families can teach us 20:00 - ADHD as a type of brain, not simply a disorder 21:00 - Curiosity, connection and the strengths within an ADHD brain 23:00 - Do our education systems actually suit ADHD brains? 25:00 - Different ways of learning 26:00 - ADHD, hormones and the stages of a woman's life 27:00 - Why women were excluded from so much medical research 30:00 - The resistance to recognising hormones as part of the ADHD conversation 32:00 - Postpartum mental health and the research still desperately needed 35:00 - Why women's healthcare needs a more integrated approach 37:00 - ADHD and associated physical health conditions 39:00 - Why ADHD women connect so powerfully with each other 40:00 - Groups, validation and finally feeling like you fit in 42:00 - Late diagnosis, grief and understanding a lifetime through a new lens 44:00 - Planting yourself in the right garden 46:00 - Kathleen's next chapter and the Institute for Lifespan ADHD Training 47:00 - Why ADHD treatment needs a more integrated approach 49:00 - Giving yourself permission to do life differently 50:00 - High-achieving ADHD women and what happens behind closed doors 52:00 - The expectations still placed on women to hold everything together 53:30 - The ILAT Global Summit and training professionals to better support ADHD 56:30 - Kathleen's advice for women diagnosed later in life Articles Mentioned: www.additudemag.com/lindsay-clancy-postpartum-adhd/ Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Learn more about Kathleen and the Institute for Lifespan ADHD Training at ilat.org Visit Kathleen's website at drkathleennadeau.com Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn Find out more and register for the ILAT Global Summit (online) at ilatglobal.org ⭐ADHD Women's Wellbeing listeners can use the code ILAT50 at checkout to save $50 on online summit registration. Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #347
    October 18 · 1 hr 1 min

    ADHD Business Burnout: Hyperfocus and Redefining Success with Amanda Perry

    This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see we're planning and get involved! Today's Podcast: One statistic changed everything for Amanda Perry. More than half of neurodivergent entrepreneurs say they only started a business because the workplace couldn’t support them. Not a dream. A necessity. This week’s More Yourself episode comes from my first-ever live podcast recording, with Amanda Perry, founder of Brain First and author of Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success. Amanda has spent 18 years building businesses, 13 of them undiagnosed. Burnout after burnout. Bankruptcy. A marketing agency that grew from five people to 40 in three months. After her ADHD diagnosis at 42, she sold it and started again, this time brain first. Champagne dreams and lemonade energy. The fear of burning out again. God mode and the crash that follows. And why so many of us end up building a prison instead of a business. Recorded live, with your questions answered in real time. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, we cover: Why so many neurodivergent entrepreneurs start businesses out of necessity, not desire Amanda’s 13 undiagnosed years in business: burnout, bankruptcy and chasing the LinkedIn version of success What rich really means, and giving yourself permission to define success on your own terms How Amanda built a prison instead of a business twice, and what she’s doing differently now Why delegation feels so hard with ADHD, and the shift from VAs to an inverted Christmas tree structure FOBO, the fear of burning out, and why shrinking your life isn’t the same as healing God mode, hyperfocus and spotting the first sign of burnout Interruptions, motherhood and protecting your focus when you work from home Brain First Workplace, the dropped kerb and why neuro-inclusive design benefits everyone Live Q&A on breaking the burnout cycle, keeping things simple and disclosing ADHD at work Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and Amanda’s journey in business 00:43 - Why so many neurodivergent founders start businesses out of necessity 02:30 - 18 years in business, 13 undiagnosed: burnout, bankruptcy and borrowed goals 05:35 - Permission to create your own version of success 07:20 - “Disgustingly rich” and what rich really means 10:48 - Building a prison, not a business 12:07 - Purpose, values and the pressure to be nice as a female founder 13:30 - Delegation, communication and why it’s quicker to do it yourself 16:04 - From VAs to a chief of staff: the inverted Christmas tree 17:33 - Self-trust, perimenopause and not knowing how you’ll wake up 18:14 - Kate on leaving PR and shrinking herself to avoid burnout 22:01 - FOBO: the fear of burning out 24:48 - Champagne dreams, lemonade energy 25:19 - Interruptions, motherhood and the nervous system 27:41 - God mode, hyperfocus and the first sign of burnout 33:07 - Brain First Workplace and open conversations at work 34:26 - Tribunals, “them and us” culture and why managers are scared 36:30 - The dropped kerb and designing for every brain 42:20 - Live Q&A: breaking out of the prison cycle 44:58 - Awareness, alignment and action 46:57 - Don’t be afraid of simplicity 48:13 - Disclosing ADHD at work 50:17 - Ideas, strategy and getting from A to Z before anyone else 52:26 - Where to find Amanda Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Get Amanda’s book, Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success Visit Amanda’s website: amandaperry.co.uk Connect with Amanda on Instagram Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #346
    October 14 · 50 min

    Why Do I Need So Much Time to Recover From People? ADHD, Social Exhaustion and the Need to Decompress

    What Actually Helps You!? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠ Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved. _____________________ You leave the party first. You pay extra for the room on your own. You say yes, then spend the whole evening counting down until you can go home. And somewhere along the way, you decided that made you the difficult one. On this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Alice Bramhill, registered mental health nurse, interpersonal psychotherapist and accredited therapeutic coach specialising in neurodivergent adults. Her first book, I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!): A Neurodivergent Guide to All Types of Relationships, is out now. Alice has nearly 30 years of clinical experience. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 47 and autism at 50, and is a parent carer to two neurodivergent children. Masking until there’s nothing left. Being the fixer, the capable one, the people pleaser. Families who keep casting you in your old role. A nervous system that panics every time you say no. You’re allowed to need your space. This is a fantastic conversation that I know will resonate so strongly with so many of you. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. _____________________ In this episode, we cover: Why relationships sit at the heart of our mental health, and what interpersonal psychotherapy can offer neurodivergent adults How masking leads to an erosion of self and a lack of authenticity in our relationships What an emotionally sustainable life looks like, and why so many social expectations simply aren't sustainable for us Why it's okay to leave the party after an hour, and how to communicate your social battery without shame Rejection sensitivity and why it isn't our job to manage other people's emotions Shrinking versus discernment, and how to navigate the fear of loneliness when you start pulling back Setting boundaries with family when you've always been cast as the fixer, the capable one or the people pleaser What emotional labour really means, and where information sharing ends and over-explaining begins Why your nervous system may push back when you start saying no, and how to practise it gently Noticing the shoulds, starting with a maybe and why it's okay to disappoint people Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Alice Bramhill 01:30 - Why Alice wrote I Need My Space 02:30 - Interpersonal psychotherapy and why relationships shape our mental health 05:30 - Masking, authenticity and the erosion of self 07:30 - Building an emotionally sustainable life 09:30 - Redefining the terms of engagement and leaving when you're done 11:30 - Rejection sensitivity and other people's emotions 14:00 - Needing space in friendships and on holidays 16:30 - Shrinking, discernment and the fear of loneliness 20:30 - Shedding, permission and life after diagnosis 21:30 - Perimenopause and caring less about what others think 25:00 - Who Alice wrote the book for 26:30 - Boundaries with family and stepping out of old roles 30:30 - What emotional labour really means 34:00 - The fixers, the capable ones and the people pleasers 36:30 - When your nervous system pushes back 39:00 - Cycle breakers and generational change 41:00 - Noticing automatic yeses and starting with a maybe 42:30 - Catching the shoulds and getting curious 44:00 - Asking why and giving yourself permission to disappoint people 46:00 - Where to find Alice's book, Substack and one-to-one support Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Visit Alice's website and join the waitlist for one-to-ones here Connect with Alice on Instagram Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing author, coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #344
    October 4 · 21 min

    A Community of Support: What's Coming to ADHD Women's Wellbeing

    What Actually Helps YOU: This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, I'm putting community, real experiences, and practical support throughout the month. There are live podcast recordings, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved. This one is a little different. No guest, no workshop clip — just me, talking to you about what's coming next and why community is at the heart of everything we're building here. Today I'm sharing a personal update about what's happening at ADHD Women's Wellbeing this October and beyond, including some exciting plans for live events in 2027, how you can get involved in ADHD Awareness Month right now, and how I want your wisdom to shape something I'm creating for this community. This one is warm, unscripted and very much from the heart. Sign up for the ADHD WW events waitlist here Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen ⁠and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, I cover: What the first-ever ADHD Women's Wellbeing live event in Manchester taught me, and why I want to do more My plans for in-person events in 2027, what they'll look and feel like, and how to get on the waitlist Why ADHD Awareness Month 2026 is all about community, lived experience and what actually helps The Google Form I'm creating to collect your wisdom — what makes your daily life easier with ADHD — and how your answers will shape a community workbook How to attend free live podcast recordings this October and ask experts your questions in real time Why I believe lived experience often comes before the research, and why I want more of your voice in this space The legacy I want to leave through ADHD Women's Wellbeing and what I'm building towards Why I'm doing all of this with very finite energy, a tiny team, and a genuine commitment to keeping things accessible Links and Resources: Visit the Events page and join the live events waitlist here Fill in the What Actually Helps You Form here Explore the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Workshop Library here Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here Join the More Yourself membership community here Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 28 · 35 min

    The Collision Between ADHD, Femininity, and Gender from Understood.org

    ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved. Understood.org's The ADHD Channel for Women features three shows hosted by three different hosts, unpacking a different side of life with ADHD. They cover everything from sex, dating, and relationships to deep dives into where neurodivergence meets the biggest news stories, like how a newly discovered gene variant could change the way we treat ADHD. There's also an ADHD coach who answers listeners' questions. Check out The ADHD Channel for Women ⁠here This episode from The ADHD Channel for Women is called 'I’ve never felt like a good woman...' You'll hear a complex conversation about ADHD, femininity, gender, and why talking about the hard stuff is important. Cate sits down with Rae Jacobson, host of Understood.org’s Hyperfocus podcast, journalist, and a producer on this show. They talk about something they’ve both struggled to name: the collision between ADHD, femininity, and gender expression. They dig into what it felt like to watch other girls “get it.” The tidiness. The calm. The effortlessness. All things that executive dysfunction made feel out of reach. They talk about the pressure to be nurturing, organized, and endlessly available — and what happens when your brain doesn’t cooperate with any of it. And they look at the research on outcomes for women and girls with ADHD." This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia. For all things ADHD Women's Wellbeing, including the podcast, resources and events, head here: www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #342
    September 23 · 50 min

    ADHD, Gut Health and Your Nervous System: A Compassionate Guide with Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas

    ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠Visit the Events page⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved. If you've ever felt shame about what you eat, how you forget to eat, or why your safe foods feel so necessary, this episode is going to be a genuine relief. On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm delighted to welcome back Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas, clinical neuroscientist, applied microbiologist, nutrition researcher, Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University and Senior Lecturer at the University of West London. Miguel has just published his brilliant new book, ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health, published by Jessica Kingsley/Hachette. His research has appeared in leading journals including the BMJ and BMC Psychiatry, and his work is known for translating complex science into something genuinely human and accessible. This is one of those conversations that covers a huge amount of ground while never once feeling overwhelming. We talk about why the ADHD brain is wired for resilience and what that actually costs us, why the gut-brain connection matters so much for neurodivergent people, how to approach nutrition with compassion rather than perfectionism, and why your safe foods are not something to be ashamed of. We also get into the language of science, why terms like comorbidity matter, and how researchers like Miguel are slowly shifting the field towards a more neuroaffirmative approach. Advertisement⏐Try AG1 now at ⁠http://drinkag1.com/adhdwomen⁠ and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. In this episode, we cover: Why compassion and kindness are at the heart of Miguel's approach to ADHD, nutrition and the nervous system How the ADHD nervous system forms in high alert, and what that means for resilience and hypervigilance Why ADHD is far more than a dopamine deficiency, and how hormones, gut bacteria and the nervous system are all part of the picture The gut-brain axis and why looking after your gut has a direct impact on your ADHD brain Why the language of science still creates problems, including terms like comorbidity and healthy cohort, and how researchers are starting to push back How to read ADHD Body and Mind in whichever way works for your brain, whether that's cover to cover or jumping straight to chapter nine Why understanding the why behind your ADHD behaviours is the keystone to change, even when it doesn't fix things overnight Miguel's approach to nutrition: keep your safe foods, add rather than subtract, and never shame what nourishes you Why safe foods are doing an important job for your nervous system, and why being pushed out of your comfort zone too quickly never lasts The circle approach to expanding your diet gently, starting from your anchors and building outward Why a hot bath is an act of self-compassion backed by neuroscience, and why you don't need to get into cold water to support your nervous system The self-kindness toolkit at the end of the book and what it covers Chapters: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas back to the podcast 02:00 - What's at the heart of ADHD Body and Mind, and why compassion comes first 05:00 - Why the ADHD nervous system is wired for hypervigilance and resilience 08:00 - ADHD as more than dopamine: hormones, gut bacteria and the full picture 11:00 - The neuroaffirmative lens in academic research and why language matters 15:00 - How the gut-brain axis connects to ADHD and emotional regulation 19:00 - The awareness and repetition model: why understanding the why is the keystone 23:00 - Nutrition without perfectionism: how to approach food with kindness 27:00 - Safe foods, anchors and adding rather than subtracting 32:00 - The circle approach: expanding your diet gently from the inside out 37:00 - The ADHD cookery school: creativity, condiments and cooking without recipes 42:00 - Hot baths, cold water and why softness is sometimes the braver choice 46:00 - The self-kindness toolkit and what the book offers neurodivergent readers and clinicians Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Miguel's website Connect with Miguel on Instagram Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn Get Miguel's book: ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #341
    September 20 · 21 min

    Your ADHD Nervous System Explained

    ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved. If you've ever wondered why some days feel manageable and others feel completely impossible, even when nothing has obviously changed, your nervous system is trying to tell you something. Welcome to this week's More Yourself Monday episode. Today I'm sharing a clip from one of my workshops on the nervous system, polyvagal theory and how understanding both can genuinely change the way you move through your days with ADHD. This is not a clinical lecture. This is a simple, accessible explanation of why your nervous system behaves the way it does, what the polyvagal ladder actually means in real life, and how you can start to work with your nervous system rather than against it. I also introduce the concept of glimmers, those small micro moments of safety and joy that can shift your entire day when you learn to notice and actively seek them out. The full workshop is available on my website, and the link is below. In this episode, we cover: What it means to feel grounded, connected and safe in your nervous system, and why so many of us rarely get there A simple explanation of polyvagal theory and why it matters so much for neurodivergent people The three states of the polyvagal ladder: ventral vagal, sympathetic and dorsal vagal, and what each one feels like from the inside Why the ADHD brain so often operates in fight or flight mode, and what that costs us over time What the dorsal vagal shutdown state feels like, and why it shows up as fatigue, numbness and withdrawal The window of tolerance: what it is, what opens and closes it, and why ADHD narrows it The difference between hyper arousal and hypo arousal, and why each needs a different response What glimmers are and why they matter as much as knowing your triggers How to identify your own personal glimmers and actively harness them across the day Why regulating your own nervous system is not selfish but has a ripple effect on everyone around you The role of co-regulation and why our nervous system state affects the people we live and work with Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Get the full nervous system and polyvagal theory workshop series here with a 10% discount for Podcast listeners Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #340
    September 17 · 52 min

    Is the ADHD Brain an Intuitive Brain?

    ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved. Content note: This episode contains references to suicide and family bereavement. If you are struggling, please reach out to a trusted support resource. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. You can also check out the Campaign Against Living Miserably here What if the traits you've spent a lifetime apologising for are actually the source of your greatest ability? On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Day, New York Times bestselling author, teacher and intuitive consultant who has spent four decades working with individuals and some of the world's largest companies to help them identify and achieve their goals. Laura's new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, is the book she describes as an ADHD manual — a practical, evidence-informed framework for building the scaffolding that helps neurodivergent brains thrive. With two New York Times bestsellers to her name and a 40-year teaching community, Laura is also someone who has lived with ADHD her entire life, and this conversation is one of the most honest, warm and genuinely surprising I have had on the podcast. We talk about Laura's childhood in a household where neurodivergence was everywhere but unnamed, why girls of her generation were never allowed to act out and what that suppression cost them, how she built a career advising billion-dollar companies using her intuitive mind, and why the ADHD brain is uniquely suited to intuition, just not always in the way we expect. In this episode, we cover: Laura's diagnosis at 10 or 11, and why girls of her generation were never treated Growing up in a household where neurodivergence showed up in multiple family members, often with devastating consequences How Laura used survival, focus and necessity as her prosthetic scaffolding before she understood her own neurology Why the ADHD brain is the intuitive brain, and how to make that work for you rather than against you Why intuition is not something you tap into but something that is always downloading, and how to structure it usefully The difference between the voice of fear and the voice of intuition, and why documentation matters more than belief How Laura advises billion-dollar companies using intuitive methods, and why business and science do what works regardless of belief Why Laura says you are your own worst intuitive, and why community-based intuitive practice is so powerful The shame and blame pages: a research-backed tool for releasing what no longer serves you Why doing just the next thing is one of the most powerful strategies for ADHD brains How Laura built scaffolding for her household without knowing it was for neurodivergence Why vulnerability is not a weakness but the source of extraordinary ability The Prism: what it offers neurodivergent people and why Laura considers it her ADHD manual Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Laura Day 02:00 - Laura's diagnosis at 10 or 11 and why girls weren't treated in her generation 05:00 - Growing up with neurodivergence all around her, and what it cost her family 08:00 - How she used her role as oldest child to create focus and structure 10:00 - Spatial difficulties, irritability and the compensations she built over decades 13:00 - Why the ADHD brain is the intuitive brain 16:00 - How intuition actually works and why it is always downloading 20:00 - Documenting intuition and building a feedback loop with the world 23:00 - How she works with billion-dollar companies and why they don't need to believe in it 27:00 - Social dynamics, masking and forgetting to say hello 31:00 - Emotional regulation, overstimulation and learning to step away rather than snap 35:00 - Generational patterns, self-awareness and raising neurodivergent children 40:00 - Just do the next thing: why this is the most powerful ADHD strategy 44:00 - The shame and blame pages and the research behind letting go 47:00 - The Prism: seven steps, and why Laura considers it her ADHD manual 50:00 - How to find Laura and join her teaching community Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Laura's website: lauraday.com Get Laura's new book: The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, also available as an audiobook narrated by Laura herself Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #339
    September 9 · 48 min

    Why Doesn’t My GP Understand ADHD & What’s Really Happening in the 10-Minute Appointment

    If you've ever left a GP appointment feeling dismissed, confused or like you had to fight to be taken seriously, this episode will help you understand why, and what you can actually do about it. On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Dr Victoria Galvis, a GP based in Greater Manchester with over 20 years of lived experience of neurodivergence and a fierce passion for changing how the healthcare system supports neurodivergent people. Victoria qualified as a doctor in Colombia and has been practising in the UK since 2010, working across both hospital medicine and primary care. Alongside Dr Safiya Virji, GP and Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London, she has written Neurodivergence in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for UK Healthcare Professionals, a comprehensive, research-backed resource designed to educate clinicians and support patients in navigating the system more effectively. In this episode, Victoria explains the structural reasons why GPs often don't know enough about ADHD and neurodivergence, and it is not as simple as them not caring. She talks about the discrimination she faced as a neurodivergent doctor, why the 10-minute consultation is both a challenge and something patients can learn to work with, and how the book came about from 20 years of clinical experience and a determination to change things for her son, her patients and the next generation of healthcare professionals. In this episode, we cover: Why GPs receive less than two hours of ADHD training and have zero budget to update their knowledge How media narratives and ableist assumptions about ADHD have shaped clinical attitudes Victoria's own experience of disability discrimination as a neurodivergent doctor, and why she kept going Why ADHD and autism could not even be co-diagnosed until 2013, and what that means for the doctors currently practising How the 10-minute GP consultation works, and practical ways to make the most of it Why bringing a list to a GP appointment is genuinely helpful, not annoying How to ask for the right GP in your practice for your specific needs When and how to share your own research with your doctor, and how most GPs actually receive it Why executive dysfunction affects how patients experience healthcare at every stage The importance of bringing someone with you, recording the appointment or using other memory tools Why most mental health presentations in primary care have a deep-rooted neurodivergent component Kate and Victoria's grassroots idea for getting this book into every GP surgery Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Victoria Galvis 02:00 - Victoria's ADHD diagnosis at 19 and her early career in the UK 05:00 - The discrimination she faced as a neurodivergent doctor and why she fought back 09:00 - Why GPs don't know more about ADHD, and why it is not their fault 13:00 - Zero training budget, no CPD funding and what that means in practice 16:00 - Why most mental health presentations have a neurodivergent component 19:00 - How the 10-minute consultation works from the doctor's side 23:00 - Practical tips for making the most of your GP appointment 28:00 - How to share your own research with your GP and what to expect 32:00 - When to ask for a follow-up, and why you should book with the right person 36:00 - How the book came about, and what it covers 40:00 - Kate and Victoria's grassroots idea: getting the book into every GP surgery 43:00 - How to get the book and where to find Victoria Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Connect with the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Victoria's website: victoriagalvis.com Get the book: Neurodivergence in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for UK Healthcare Professionals - Also available free on Kindle Unlimited Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #338
    September 6 · 21 min

    Routines vs Rituals: A Gentler Approach to Structure with ADHD

    Looking for further guidance and support on⁠⁠⁠ ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast here⁠⁠⁠. Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. September has always felt more like a new start than January. And if you're ready to think differently about how you structure your days, this episode is a good place to begin. On this week's More Yourself Monday episode, I'm sharing a clip from one of my workshops on ADHD routines and structures, because this time of year tends to bring up that familiar urge to get organised and finally get on top of things. But this isn't about neurotypical productivity systems or trying to force your ADHD brain into a shape it was never meant to hold. This is about understanding your own energy, working with your nervous system rather than against it, and finding a rhythm that actually feels sustainable for you. In this clip I introduce my four-pillar framework for building a personalised daily flow, talk about the difference between rituals and routines and why that distinction matters, and explore why so many of us get stuck in boom-and-bust cycles, even when we genuinely want things to be different. The full workshop is available on my website with a discount code below. In this episode, we cover: Why ADHD brains seek both structure and stimulation, and how that tension creates the boom and bust cycle How dopamine, executive function, working memory, hormones and emotional regulation all affect our ability to build and maintain routines Why neurotypical systems can feel suffocating and punishing for ADHD brains The difference between rituals and routines, and why rituals often feel softer, more grounding and more sustainable How to visualise the version of you that's working in flow, and what that tells you about what you actually need What it means to be your own energy detective and do a daily or weekly audit of what fills and depletes you Why knowing your why is one of the most powerful grounding tools you have Kate's four-pillar framework: energy awareness, time perception, body-based cues and returning to your values Why interoception, noticing hunger, thirst, tiredness and sensory input, matters more than most productivity advice acknowledges Links and Resources: Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Get the full ADHD Routines and Structures workshop with a 10% discount here Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #337
    September 3 · 44 min

    Why You Keep Snapping at the People You Love with Anna Mathur

    The sharp words, the slammed drawer, the guilt that follows. If you've ever wondered how you became someone who snaps at the people you love most, this conversation is going to feel very familiar. On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm welcoming back psychotherapist and bestselling author Anna Mathur for a conversation that is honest, warm and full of the kind of insight you don't often get permission to sit with. Anna is the author of multiple bestselling books and the host of The Therapy Edit podcast, which has reached over four million downloads. She's passionate about taking therapy beyond the consulting room and into the everyday moments where we actually need it most. Her new book, How to Stop Snapping at the People You Love (As Well As the Ones You Don't): A Compassionate Guide to Rage, Regulation and Repair, is out now, and we get into a lot of it here. Anna and I talk about why snapping isn't a character flaw but a signal, what it's really communicating when everything feels like too much, and how so much of it connects to what we hold inside as women, as ADHD women, as people who were never really taught that anger was allowed. We also talk about hormones, perimenopause, sensory overwhelm, the cheese incident, WhatsApp groups, and why buying calm every day is not a luxury but a necessity. Do also go back and listen to our previous conversation, which we'll link in the show notes, where we talked about burnout, exhaustion and holding it all together. In this episode, we cover: Why snapping and irritability are signals of overwhelm rather than signs of being a bad person How the good girl conditioning many of us grew up with can turn unexpressed anger inward Why women with ADHD and neurodivergent women often have a more activated nervous system as a baseline The connection between perimenopause, hormonal shifts and rising irritability and sensory sensitivity Why masking all day means the dysregulation has to go somewhere, often home How circumstantial overwhelm and internal stress create a perfect storm The unspoken narratives and generational conditioning that keep us holding what isn't ours to hold Why anger is not the enemy, and what happens when we finally listen to it The difference between rage and snapping, and why shame makes it harder to process either Practical ways to create circuit breakers across the day rather than relying on one big reset Why co-regulation starts with us, and how to buy calm when you have nothing left Anna's untangling framework from the book, and how to start befriending the anger rather than suppressing it The importance of finding people and spaces where you can fully unmask Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Anna Mathur back to the podcast 02:00 - What led Anna to write the book and why snapping shocked her so much 05:00 - The pressure cooker: why it all has to come out somewhere 08:00 - Viewing snapping through a neuro-affirming and hormonal lens 11:00 - How perimenopause amplified sensory sensitivity for Kate and Anna 14:00 - Circumstantial versus internal stress and why both matter 17:00 - The unspoken truths, suppressed emotions and generational conditioning 20:00 - The things we're not saying and how to start listening to that inner voice 24:00 - Rewiring the cognitive narrative that keeps us agreeable at our own expense 27:00 - Late diagnosis, masking and the dysregulation that comes home with us 30:00 - Recognising your personal warning signs before the Richter scale tips 34:00 - The WhatsApp group tipping point and what it's really about 38:00 - How to buy calm: rest, joy, unmasking and snacking on regulation 42:00 - Why co-regulation with our children starts with resourcing ourselves 45:00 - Anna's untangling framework: befriending anger and finding grace in the mess Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Connect with the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Anna's website: annamathur.com Connect with Anna on Instagram Listen to Anna's podcast: The Therapy Edit Get Anna's book: How to Stop Snapping at the People You Love (As Well As the Ones You Don't) Listen to Kate's previous conversation with Anna here Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #335
    August 30 · 23 min

    What is RSD Alongside ADHD?

    Want to join our first-ever live podcast and Q&A this week? More info here Have you always been more sensitive than most people you know to rejection, criticism or the feeling that you've fallen short? If that question just landed somewhere deep, this episode is for you. Today I'm sharing a clip from one of my most popular workshops, "What Is RSD?," as a way of bringing this topic back into focus, because rejection sensitive dysphoria is one of those things that so many of us have felt our entire lives without ever having the language for it. In this clip, I talk about what Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria actually is, how Dr William Dodson first articulated it, how it shows up physically and emotionally, and why understanding it as a neurological trait rather than a personality flaw changes everything. I also share some practical ways to begin working with RSD rather than against it, including how EFT tapping can help calm the nervous system response in the moment and over time. The full RSD workshop is available on my website with 10% off ⁠here⁠ In this episode, we cover: What rejection sensitive dysphoria is and how it was first identified and named Why RSD shows up as part of the emotional dysregulation profile of ADHD What RSD can feel like physically, not just emotionally, and why that matters How RSD shows up across childhood, relationships, work, parenting and social life Why RSD episodes can feel all-consuming and then end surprisingly quickly How past social trauma can resurface and amplify RSD triggers later in life Why keeping your guard up to avoid RSD can become its own form of exhaustion The self-regulation tools that can help including EFT, DBT, somatic work and breathwork How lifestyle foundations like sleep, movement and nutrition build resilience against RSD Why EFT tapping helps calm the amygdala and reduce cortisol in the moment A simple introduction to tapping and how to use it before, during or after an RSD episode lookingAre you Looking for further support on ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast ⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠. Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to today's More Yourself episode 01:30 - Why RSD is such an important part of understanding ADHD 04:00 - The workshop clip begins: Dr William Dodson's defining question 05:30 - What RSD is and how it shows up emotionally and physically 08:00 - The clear trigger, the mood shift and why episodes can end as suddenly as they start 10:00 - How past social trauma can keep RSD patterns alive 12:00 - How RSD impacts self-esteem, relationships, parenting and career 14:00 - What we can do: self-regulation tools, EFT, DBT and somatic approaches 16:00 - Why brain and gut health matter for RSD resilience 18:00 - Self-talk, journaling and the self-compassion that only you can give yourself 20:00 - EFT tapping explained: the meridian points, cortisol reduction and the amygdala 22:00 - How tapping creates perspective and shifts the threat response 24:00 - Using tapping before a difficult situation to stay regulated Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Get the full What Is RSD? workshop with 10% off here Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #336
    August 26 · 48 min

    Hormones Are the Missing Piece of the Female ADHD Puzzle

    Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. So many of us were told for years that our painful periods, flooding cycles, monthly mood crashes and hormonal struggles were just something to push through. This compilation episode is about what's actually been going on hormonally all along. This week's episode is all about the overlap between ADHD, hormones and women's health — a connection Kate has been talking about since the very beginning of the podcast, and one that is still not being taken seriously enough in clinical practice. We hear from three conversations. Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and specialist in ADHD and hormonal health, on the link between estrogen and heart health, why perimenopause doesn't follow a straight line, and why so many neurodivergent women are still being told they're too young or not symptomatic enough to be taken seriously. Dr Liz Murray, doctor, activist and author of Not Just Painful Periods, on her own decade-long road to an endometriosis diagnosis, what coming off the pill without the right information can do, and what she's doing through her charity to change the way the next generation of doctors are trained. And Laura Federico and Morgan Miller, authors of The Cycle Book, on why cycle tracking is so much more than period data, how it can help us understand RSD, mood, energy and focus across the month, and why reconnecting with our bodies might be one of the most compassionate things we can do for ourselves. In this episode, we cover: The link between estrogen, heart health and menopause, and why this is the number one cause of death in post-menopausal women Why perimenopause doesn't follow a straight line, and why symptoms can start long before periods become irregular Why neurodivergent women are more likely to experience PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS and severe PMS How losing estrogen suddenly can significantly raise cardiovascular risk, and why this is so often dismissed Dr Liz Murray's own endometriosis story, and why being a doctor didn't protect her from a delayed diagnosis What can happen when women come off the pill without understanding what it may have been masking Why the conversation GPs need to have with women about the pill is still not happening What women need to know about the red flag symptoms that warrant further investigation The overlap between ADHD, hypermobility, connective tissue issues and hormonal conditions Why cycle tracking is far more than knowing when your period is due How tracking can help you notice patterns like RSD intensifying in the second half of your cycle Why reconnecting to your body, even briefly each day, is a genuinely life-changing act Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to this week's compilation 03:00 - Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund: estrogen, heart health and what women need to know 06:00 - Why cardiovascular risk rises after menopause, and what that means for ADHD women 08:00 - The lifestyle factors that compound risk for neurodivergent women 10:00 - Why perimenopause symptoms can appear while periods are still regular 12:00 - The confusion of fluctuating estrogen levels and what it feels like from the inside 16:00 - Dr Liz Murray: a decade to diagnosis and what went wrong 18:00 - How the pill masked endometriosis and what coming off it without guidance cost her 20:00 - What GPs can do, and the conversations that still aren't happening 22:00 - Red flags that warrant further investigation, and why you don't need to wait 24:00 - The overlap between ADHD, neurodivergence and hormonal conditions 28:00 - What Liz's charity is doing to change how future doctors are trained 31:00 - Laura Federico and Morgan Miller: cycle tracking as a tool for self-understanding 35:00 - Tracking through perimenopause, HRT and changing cycles 37:00 - How cycle data helps you understand mood, energy and RSD across the month 39:00 - Coming back into your body as a radical act of self-compassion 42:00 - Tracking when your cycle isn't regular or predictable Links and Resources: Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Discover my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Visit Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund's website: ⁠lottaborgskoglund.com⁠ Connect with Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund on ⁠Instagram⁠ Get Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund's book: ⁠Female Hormones and ADHD: The Impact on Brain and Body⁠ Visit Dr Liz Murray's website: ⁠drlizmurray.com⁠ Connect with Dr Liz Murray on ⁠Instagram⁠ Get Dr Liz Murray's book: ⁠Not Just Painful Periods: Endometriosis, Fibroids and Menstrual Health⁠ Visit Laura and Morgan's website: ⁠itslauraandmorgan.com⁠ ⁠Get The Cycle Book⁠: An Interactive Step-by-Step Guide to Tracking Hormones and Knowing Your Body Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #333
    August 19 · 46 min

    From ADHD Diagnosis to Self-Acceptance: Breaking Free from Shame, Self-Doubt & Limiting Beliefs

    Looking for further guidance and support on⁠⁠⁠ ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast here⁠⁠⁠. So many of us arrive at an ADHD diagnosis carrying years of shame, self-criticism and the quiet belief that something is fundamentally wrong with us. This episode is about what starts to shift when we finally have the right information. Welcome to this week's summer compilation. This one follows the journey from diagnosis to self-acceptance: the barriers so many of us still face in getting taken seriously, the practical tools that can help us quieten the inner critic, and a completely different way of seeing our ADHD traits, not as defects to fix, but as strengths that just need the right context and support. We hear from three guests across three different conversations. Vicki George, clinical nurse specialist and founder of The ADHD Nurse, on what the DIVA-5 assessment is really meant to be, why ADHD still carries more stigma than almost any other mental health condition, and how to advocate for yourself with a GP even when it feels uncomfortable. Cynthia Hammer, author of Living with Inattentive ADHD and founder of the Inattentive ADHD Coalition, on how understanding and accepting a diagnosis can bring more happiness even when the symptoms themselves haven't changed, and why replacing negative self-talk requires something to replace it with. And Hannah Miller, author of The Purpose Pursuit and host of The Purpose Pursuit Podcast, on what limiting beliefs actually are, how self-sabotage shows up for ADHD women, and her four-part framework for taking stock of where you are and finding your way forward. In this episode, we cover: What the DIVA-5 assessment is and why it should be a guided conversation, not a form you fill out alone Why ADHD diagnosis still carries more stigma than most other mental health conditions, and how unhelpful media headlines keep feeding that Why a GP cannot refuse to refer you for an ADHD assessment, and how to keep the appointment focused on that goal The challenges of titration and why finding the right medication is rarely a quick or straightforward process How understanding and accepting a diagnosis brought more happiness to the women Cynthia interviewed, even when their symptoms hadn't changed Why you can't simply get rid of a negative thought without replacing it with something else, and what that can look like in practice Why earlier diagnosis matters so much, and why girls with inattentive ADHD are still so frequently missed Hannah's four-part framework: taking stock, naming your strengths, identifying limiting behaviours and clarifying your values Why our traits are not defects, and how Clifton Strengths can help neurodivergent women begin to see themselves differently Why we don't have to be everything, and how leaning on others' strengths is part of thriving, not failing Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to this week's compilation 03:00 - Vicki George: what the DIVA-5 assessment is and why it matters 06:00 - Why the person being assessed is always believed over a parent or observer 08:00 - Why ADHD still carries more stigma than other mental health conditions 10:30 - How to advocate for yourself with a GP and what they can and can't do 13:00 - Titration, medication and why the process is so rarely straightforward 18:00 - Cynthia Hammer: how diagnosis brings happiness even when symptoms remain 21:00 - Interrupting negative self-talk and why replacement matters 24:00 - Why girls with inattentive ADHD are still being missed by standard tools 27:00 - Why whole-family screening matters when one person is diagnosed 30:00 - Hannah Miller: what happens when diagnosis collides with limiting beliefs 33:00 - The four-part framework: taking stock, strengths, limiting behaviors, values 36:00 - Why traits we've labelled as flaws can become our greatest strengths 39:00 - Clifton Strengths and why it works well for neurodivergent women 42:00 - We don't have to be everything, we just have to be good at something Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in e-book and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Vicki George's website: theadhdnurse.co.uk Connect with Vicki George on Instagram Visit Cynthia Hammer's website: iadhd.org Connect with Cynthia Hammer on Instagram Get Cynthia Hammer's book: Living with Inattentive ADHD: Climbing the Circular Staircase of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Visit Cynthia's advocacy project: findtheadhdgirls.org Visit Hannah Miller's website: hellosidekick.co Connect with Hannah Miller on Instagram Get Hannah Miller's book: The Purpose Pursuit Listen to Hannah's podcast: The Purpose Pursuit Podcast Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. 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  • #333
    August 12 · 43 min

    Stop Trying to Hack Your ADHD and Do This Instead

    Looking for further guidance and support on⁠⁠⁠ ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast here⁠⁠⁠. If you've ever tried an ADHD productivity hack, felt briefly hopeful, and then quietly gone back to exactly how you were before, this episode is for you. Welcome to this week's summer compilation. This one is all about redefining what productivity actually means for ADHD brains, and letting go of the neurotypical advice that was never designed for the way our minds work. We hear from four guests across four different conversations. Ari Tuckman on why productivity isn't about doing more, but about creating a life that has more meaning and breathing room in it. Dr Jacob Santhouse on automaticity, why everyday tasks like filling in a form are so much more mentally exhausting for neurodivergent brains, and why that is not a character flaw. Sonia Ponzo on the paralysis state, interoception, and why ADHD brains so often struggle to read what their body actually needs in any given moment. Dr Claire Plumbly on the three states of the nervous system, what it means to get stuck in fight or flight, and how burnout can build so slowly we almost don't notice it. And Laura Willis on digital overload, the default mode network, and why a real rest is not the same as switching from emails to scrolling. In this episode, we cover: Why quick-fix productivity hacks rarely work for ADHD brains, and what to aim for instead How genuine productivity creates meaning and more time for the things that matter, rather than just getting more done What automaticity is and why struggling with everyday admin tasks is a neurological difference, not a personal failing Why form-filling, reading and life admin can deplete an ADHD brain so much faster than people realise What the paralysis state is and why knowing what to do is not the same as being able to start What interoception is and why ADHD brains often misread what they actually need, leading to cycles of shame and self-blame The autonomic nervous system explained: green, amber and red, and why so many of us get stuck oscillating between the last two How burnout can build quietly over time rather than arriving all at once Why scrolling on your phone during a break is not actually a break, and what the default mode network needs instead Practical, sustainable ways to create boundaries around technology that protect your energy and your headspace Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to this week's summer compilation 03:00 - Ari Tuckman: why productivity hacks rarely work for ADHD brains 05:30 - What real productivity looks like: meaning, not just output 08:00 - The importance of immediate rewards over vague long-term goals 10:00 - Sleep, nutrition, movement and flexible routine as the actual foundations 13:00 - Kate and Ari on the ADHD brain's contradictions and daily recalibrations 16:00 - Dr Jacob Santhouse: what automaticity is and why it matters 19:00 - How automaticity affects working memory and executive function 21:30 - Why form-filling is exhausting, and what to do about it 24:00 - Playing to your strengths and letting go of the guilt 27:00 - Sonia Ponzo: the paralysis state and why you can't always start 31:00 - What interoception is and why ADHD brains struggle with it 35:00 - The cycle of self-shame when we misread what our body needs 37:00 - Practical ways to start training interoception 41:00 - Dr Claire Plumbly: the autonomic nervous system explained 44:00 - Green, amber and red: rest and digest, fight or flight, and shutdown 48:00 - What it looks and feels like to get stuck in amber or red 51:00 - Kate on losing access to contentment and compassion during burnout 53:00 - Laura Willis: why scrolling is not a rest 55:00 - The default mode network and what a real mental break actually does 57:00 - Practical boundaries: phones out of reach, batch working and scheduled screen time Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Connect with the podcast on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠⁠⁠ Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ Join the More Yourself membership community ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠ Visit Dr Ari Tuckman's website: drarituckman.com Connect with Dr Ari Tuckman on Instagram Get Dr Ari Tuckman's book: The ADHD Productivity Manual Connect with Dr Jacob Santhouse on Instagram Get Dr Jacob Santhouse's book: Dyslexia Explained: Your Toolkit to Understanding and Thriving Visit Sonia Ponzo's website: outsetwellness.com Connect with Sonia Ponzo on Instagram Visit Dr Claire Plumbly's website: drclaireplumbly.com Get Dr Claire Plumbly's book: Burnout: How to Manage Your Nervous System Before It Manages You Connect with Dr Claire Plumbly on Instagram Visit Laura Willis's website: laura-willis.com Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed women with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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