ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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 — surrounded by like-minded neurodivergent women who truly get it. Ready for your next chapter? Find out more: Book your place here⁠.

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A gentle note before listening: This episode includes discussion of sudden bereavement, eating disorders, problematic alcohol use and addiction, mental health and grief.
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Sometimes only when a coping mechanism disappears do we see what was buried underneath.

The social anxiety. The masking. The overwhelm. The parts of ourselves we’ve labelled unreliable, chaotic or “bad at life”.

And suddenly, with a different understanding, the story starts to look very different.

In today’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I sit down with Rosie Moss, award-winning podcast host, bestselling author of Widowed As F**k and founder of the Widowed Collective.

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Rosie was widowed at 37 when her husband Ben died suddenly in a scuba diving accident, leaving her to navigate an unimaginable loss while parenting three young children.

Several years later, Rosie decided to stop drinking.

And not long after that came another huge piece of understanding: at 41, she was diagnosed with ADHD, followed by autism.

This is such an open conversation about what happens when grief, eating disorders, neurodivergence, coping mechanisms and identity all collide.

Rosie talks about looking back at the girl who struggled with eating disorders, the woman who relied heavily on alcohol, the jobs she couldn’t stick with, the appointments she forgot and the parts of herself she had labelled unreliable or “bad at life”.

And then discovering there was another way to understand so much of it.

We talk about the grief that can come with late diagnosis alongside the relief. The role alcohol played in helping Rosie manage social anxiety and mask for years. What sobriety revealed about what she actually needed. And how losing the person who had unknowingly provided so much of her executive-function scaffolding left her navigating both enormous grief and the practical realities of life alone.

There’s humour here too, because that’s a huge part of Rosie’s story.

And perhaps more than anything, there’s permission to look back at the versions of ourselves who were simply trying to get through and meet them with a little more understanding.

In this episode, we cover:

Losing Rosie’s husband suddenly and navigating grief with three young children

Why lived experience and finding people who truly understand can be so powerful

Humour, anger and the emotions we don’t always expect to experience in grief

Rosie’s experience of anorexia and bulimia from a young age and the neurodivergence that went unrecognised

Using alcohol to cope, mask and manage social situations

How sobriety eventually led Rosie towards understanding her ADHD

Being diagnosed with ADHD at 41 and autism later in life

The relief and grief that can come with looking back at your life through a neurodivergent lens

Parenting ADHD and autistic children differently once you understand your own brain

The stigma surrounding ADHD and the exhaustion of feeling you need to defend your diagnosis

Sobriety, social anxiety and discovering who you are without alcohol

Why Rosie chose to try 100 days without drinking rather than thinking about “forever”

Losing a partner who had unknowingly become part of your executive-function support

The hidden admin and practical overwhelm that comes alongside grief

Building work around your ADHD strengths and the flexibility you actually need

Finding community, meaningful work and connection after enormous life change

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome and introducing Rosie Moss

02:00 - Losing Ben and beginning the Widowed AF podcast

04:00 - Creating a space for honest conversations about grief

05:20 - The idea of becoming a “grief sherpa”

06:00 - Finding people who understand without needing an explanation

07:20 - Humour as part of grief

09:00 - Still being yourself after enormous loss

10:00 - Anger and the emotions we don’t always talk about in grief

11:00 - Grief, neurodivergence and parenting young children

11:30 - Eating disorders and the signs of ADHD that were missed

12:40 - Alcohol, masking and coping before diagnosis

13:00 - Getting sober and beginning to recognise ADHD

14:00 - The relief of finally having another explanation

15:20 - ADHD diagnosis, parenting and changing expectations

16:00 - The stigma around ADHD diagnosis

17:00 - Feeling increasingly cautious about disclosing ADHD and autism

18:00 - Invisible disability, accommodations and judgement

20:20 - The Next Chapter ADHD Women’s Wellbeing event

22:00 - Alcohol as a coping mechanism

23:00 - Drinking after bereavement and looking back with more compassion

24:00 - Sobriety and recognising the social anxiety underneath

25:00 - Why AA wasn’t the right route for Rosie

26:00 - Trying 100 days without alcohol

27:00 - ADHD, addiction and shame

28:00 - Taking sobriety one day — and sometimes one hour — at a time

29:00 - The fear of admitting that drinking had become a problem

31:00 - Socialising differently and learning your actual preferences

32:00 - Learning to dance and have fun without alcohol

34:00 - Where to begin if you’re questioning your relationship with alcohol

36:00 - Removing the pressure to make a huge announcement or change everything at once

36:30 - How sobriety and ADHD diagnosis helped Rosie sustain her work

37:00 - Losing the person who supported your executive functioning

38:00 - Grief admin and navigating everyday life alone

39:30 - Reframing “I’m bad at life”

40:00 - Building work around flexibility, interest and ADHD strengths

42:00 - Valuing your time and allowing a business to grow at a sustainable pace

43:20 - Widowed AF, the Widowed Collective and finding support

Links and Resources:

Join me in Manchester for The Next Chapter

Find my ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources here

Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, here

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod

Visit Rosie and the Widowed AF community: widowedaf.com

Follow Rosie on Instagram: @widowed_af

Find the Widowed AF podcast and Rosie’s book, Widowed As F**k, through her website

Support mentioned in this episode:

If anything discussed in this conversation has brought something up for you, please reach out for appropriate support.

For bereavement support, visit Cruse Bereavement Support

For help or information around alcohol, visit Alcohol Change UK

For eating disorder support, visit Beat

If you need someone to talk to, you can call Samaritans free on 116 123, 24 hours a day

Some other helpful links:⁠

Widowed and Young⁠⁠

Drink Aware⁠⁠

Alcoholics-Anonymous

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.
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Feeding yourself and your family shouldn’t feel like another daily test you’re somehow failing.

Especially when you already know what you “should” be eating — but your ADHD brain, energy and capacity aren’t always able to make it happen.

This episode is your permission slip to release the nutritional perfectionism and let “good enough” genuinely be good enough.

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.

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You know you probably need more protein. You know eating regularly helps. You might even have plenty of food in the house.

But then it’s 6pm, everyone needs feeding, you’re exhausted, you’ve made approximately a thousand decisions already that day and suddenly dinner feels like an emergency.

In today’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I sit down with Amy Jones, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, Certified ADHD Life Coach, Ontario Certified Teacher and MSc Applied Neuroscience candidate.

And this conversation is really about everything that happens in the gap between knowing what might help us and actually being able to do it.

Because for ADHD women, food isn’t simply about nutrition.

There’s executive function. Decision fatigue. Sensory needs. Hormones. Parenting. Working memory. Energy. Our nervous systems. And the fact that our capacity can look completely different from one day to the next.

Amy was diagnosed with ADHD at 45 after her youngest son’s diagnosis prompted her to look more closely at her own experiences. She now brings together nutrition, ADHD coaching, neuroscience and lived experience to help neurodivergent adults make food and self-care feel more manageable.

We talk about why traditional meal planning can ask far too much of an already depleted brain, why Amy believes we should plan for our lowest-capacity days rather than our ideal ones, and some wonderfully simple ways to reduce the number of decisions food requires from us.

There’s also a lot of permission in this conversation.

Permission to assemble dinner instead of cooking it.

To use convenience food.

To order the takeaway.

To make the fridge work for your ADHD brain.

And to stop believing that nourishing yourself or your family has to look perfect to count.

In this episode, we cover:

Amy’s late ADHD diagnosis and how her son’s diagnosis changed her understanding of herself

Why knowing what to eat and actually being able to do it are two very different things

The executive-function load hidden inside meal planning, shopping and making dinner

Why ADHD women can know exactly what would support them and still struggle to follow through

Reducing decision fatigue and building food around the life you actually have

Planning for low-capacity days rather than relying on your most motivated self

Using visibility and your fridge as a practical working-memory support

Consistent eating, hunger cues and making food easier to access

Parenting neurodivergent children, food, sensory needs and after-school overwhelm

Letting go of perfection, “shoulds” and shame around convenience food and takeaway

Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome and introducing Amy Jones

02:15 - Amy’s late ADHD diagnosis and her family’s experience of neurodivergence

04:30 - How nutrition became part of Amy’s ADHD work

05:20 - “I know what I should do, but I can’t do it”

07:00 - The gap between knowledge and behaviour

08:20 - Why meal planning is an executive-function problem

09:00 - Mapping food around your actual life

10:00 - The hidden steps involved in making dinner

11:00 - Motherhood, neurodivergent children and the mental load around food

12:50 - Why there isn’t one food system that works for every ADHD brain

13:20 - Planning for your lowest-capacity day

14:00 - Using your fridge as a working-memory support

15:00 - Making food visible and reducing preparation

16:00 - Dinner assembly rather than cooking a full meal

17:00 - Food, regulation and the after-school crash

18:45 - Amy’s WTF’s for Dinner approach

20:00 - Hunger cues, mini meals and consistent fuel

22:10 - Capacity, visibility and remembering what’s actually in the fridge

23:00 - Perimenopause and changing capacity around cooking

24:00 - Perfectionism in the kitchen

26:00 - Parenting, control and knowing when to step away

27:30 - Learning alongside our neurodivergent children

28:30 - What to keep available for low-capacity days

29:20 - Sharing the shopping and reducing cognitive load

30:00 - What dinner can look like when you have very little left

32:00 - Why “good enough” food really is good enough

33:30 - Using AI and external tools to reduce decision-making

35:00 - Why takeaway can be part of the plan

36:30 - Letting go of food shame

37:00 - Keeping food simple and flexible

38:00 - ADHD, hormones and not knowing what capacity you’ll have tomorrow

39:00 - Cooking because you enjoy it rather than because you “should”

40:00 - A permission slip to stop trying to feed everyone perfectly

41:00 - How to work with Amy and her WTF’s for Dinner system

Links and Resources:

Join me in Manchester for The Next Chapter

Find my ADHD Women’s Wellbeing workshops and resources ⁠here⁠

Get my book, The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, ⁠here⁠

Follow the podcast on Instagram: ⁠@adhd_womenswellbeing_pod⁠

Visit Amy’s website: amyjonesnutrition.com

Follow Amy on Instagram: @amyjonesnutrition

Find Amy on YouTube: @amyjonesnutrition

Download Amy’s free resource for ADHDWW listeners, What To Do When Food Feels Like Too Much: get it here

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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