ADHD with Jenna Free
Jenna Free, Canadian Certified Counselor | ADHD Therapist & Coach

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- You hold it together all day, then walk in your front door, and everything comes out sideways. You're snappier with your partner, more defensive with your kids, and impatient with the people you really want to enjoy being with. This episode is for the adult with ADHD who's tired of the people they love the most getting the worst version of them.
I walk through what's happening in your nervous system when relationships and ADHD collide at home, why ADHD defensiveness, impatience, and controlling behavior show up strongest with the people closest to you, and what starts to shift when you work on nervous system regulation instead of gritting your teeth through dinner. If ADHD rejection sensitive dysphoria, mental rushing, or ADHD parenting dysregulation feel familiar, this one's worth your time.
00:00 - Why Relationships and ADHD Get Complicated at Home
02:53 - ADHD Defensiveness as a Fight or Flight Response
09:54 - Vulnerability, Written Communication, and Retraining Your System
10:27 - Impatience in Relationships and the Rushing You Can't Turn Off
16:51 - ADHD Controlling Behavior and Why You Insert Yourself
20:57 - Co-Regulation and Becoming the Calm in the Room
Live workshop on July 15 called Calm is Contagious, on co-regulation, ADHD, and relationships. Get the details here
Check out the show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/adhd-relationships-stay-regulated
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Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram!
Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group! - You've been calling yourself bad at task switching for so long it's started to feel like a fact. And the evidence keeps stacking up: the hyperfocus sessions that run three hours past when you need to stop, the transitions that take so much mental energy you'd rather just stay in one thing until it's done. This episode is for the adult with ADHD who suspects there's more going on beneath that label than a skill gap.
I walk through what's driving ADHD task switching struggles, why the cycle of going hard until you crash is a nervous system pattern rather than a productivity problem, and what starts to shift when you work on regulation instead of just the behavior. If ADHD transitions, all-or-nothing thinking, or the boom-bust cycle feel familiar, this one's worth your time.
00:00 - Why ADHD Task Switching Is a Nervous System Problem
04:19 - The Internal State Change Nobody Talks About
07:12 - All-or-Nothing Thinking and ADHD Dysregulation
09:28 - Why Alternating Mental and Physical Tasks Helps Regulation
13:01 - The Cause of ADHD Transition Struggles
16:43 - A Practical Way to Start Shifting Task Switching Today
Live workshop on July 15 on co-regulation, ADHD, and relationships. Get the details here
Check out the show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/adhd-task-switching-made-easier
Let's stay connected!
Ready to help your ADHD clients heal at the nervous system level? Join the waitlist for the ADHD Regulation Method certification launching in September.
Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram!
Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group! - You lived in survival mode. The stress, the paralysis, the frantic crash cycle. And then something shifted. This episode is for the adult with ADHD who's curious what life looks like on the other side of nervous system regulation work.
I'm sharing five things that changed after I got regulated, none of which were what I originally went in looking for. From how I handle criticism and rejection sensitive dysphoria, to patience with other people, to finally sticking with a hobby for more than three weeks. The changes didn't come from trying harder, but from the shift in operating conditions.
00:00 - Unexpected Benefits of ADHD Nervous System Regulation
01:53 - How Nervous System Regulation Changed Jenna's Relationship with Alcohol
04:24 - ADHD Dysregulation and Caring What People Think
06:45 - Kindness, Patience, and Living Outside Threat Mode
12:38 - RSD and ADHD: Hearing Criticism Without Shutting Down
16:26 - The ADHD Hobby Cycle and What Changes When You're Regulated
Check out the full show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/benefits-of-adhd-nervous-system-regulation
Let's stay connected!
Ready to help your ADHD clients heal at the nervous system level? Join the waitlist for the ADHD Regulation Method certification launching in September.
Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram!
Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group! - Too much to do, can't pick anything, can't move. The list is right there, the day is slipping, and somehow you end up frozen on the couch, wondering what is wrong with you. This episode is for the adult with ADHD who keeps hitting that wall and wants to understand what's actually happening in the brain when overwhelm takes over.
I break down why ADHD overwhelm is a nervous system event, what the brain is doing in fight or flight that makes executive functioning disappear, and why your perception of how much you have to do is almost never accurate. Plus two visualizations you can use right away to retrain how your brain is processing time and tasks.
00:00 – ADHD Overwhelm and What the Brain Is Doing
01:28 – ADHD Fight or Flight and the Prefrontal Cortex
05:37 – How ADHD Cognitive Distortions Warp Your Perception of Time
08:30 – Naming the Feeling as an ADHD Regulation Tool
10:16 – The Dotted Line Visualization for ADHD Overwhelm
13:16 – The Brick Path Visualization for ADHD Paralysis
Check out the show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/adhd-overwhelm-how-to-regulate
Let's stay connected!
Ready to help your ADHD clients heal at the nervous system level? Join the waitlist for the ADHD Regulation Method certification launching in September.
Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram!
Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group! - You are exhausted from swinging between frantic and frozen, and nothing you have tried seems to stick. This episode is for the ADHDer who is ready to understand why and finally have somewhere real to start.
I am introducing the ADHD regulation method, the first A to Z approach built specifically for the ADHD brain. I break down why your nervous system being stuck in fight or flight is making your ADHD symptoms significantly harder than they need to be, why the tools and strategies have not been landing, and what it really looks like to build from a regulated foundation instead of managing the chaos one crisis at a time.
00:00 – What Is the ADHD Regulation Method
03:00 – The Frantic Crash Cycle and ADHD Survival Mode
06:19 – How ADHD and Fight or Flight Make Symptoms Worse
09:02 – ADHD Dysregulation Is Not Inevitable
13:49 – ADHD Nervous System Regulation in the Moment
20:44 – Behavior Regulation and All or Nothing Thinking With ADHD
27:18 – Getting Started With the ADHD Regulation Method
Check out the full show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/adhd-regulation-method
Let's stay connected!
Ready to help your ADHD clients heal at the nervous system level? Join the waitlist for the ADHD Regulation Method certification launching in September.
Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram!
Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group!
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About ADHD with Jenna Free
ADHD with Jenna Free is a podcast for adults with ADHD who are done surviving their symptoms and ready to start thriving with ADHD without the endless tips, hacks, and workarounds that have never really fixed anything.
Hosted by Jenna Free, a Canadian Certified Counselor (CCC) and ADHD therapist, this show exists to give you a completely different way of understanding ADHD in adults and the signs of ADHD in women. Because the reason you're stuck, overwhelmed, and exhausted isn't a lack of willpower, it's that your brain is running in fight or flight. And once you understand that, everything changes.
This podcast covers the full experience of living with adult ADHD: the real science behind procrastination in ADHD and ADHD task paralysis, ADHD executive functioning strategies that work, why ADHD and perimenopause collide in ways no one talks about, and the honest, solution-focused conversations that most ADHD podcasts aren't having. Jenna also shares her own story, what it looks like to go from chronically dysregulated to genuinely thriving, so you can see that this is actually possible for you.
This show gives women with ADHD, and anyone who has ever wondered whether ADHD can be diagnosed in adulthood, a path forward that isn't about coping harder, but healing.
I'll answer questions like:
Do I have ADHD?
What is ADHD task paralysis, and how do I get unstuck?
Why is my ADHD getting worse in my 40s?
What does ADHD and perimenopause do to your brain?
How do I manage ADHD emotional dysregulation without medication alone?
Why do I procrastinate so much with ADHD?
Why don't ADHD tips and tricks ever work long-term?
What does it look like to thrive with ADHD
Can you heal ADHD symptoms without just white-knuckling through life?
What does nervous system regulation have to do with ADHD?
How do I stop feeling overwhelmed with ADHD?
If you're an adult with ADHD who's tired of the commiseration and ready for a show that believes your life can look completely different, you're in the right place.
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