Neuroscience has become a recent fascination of mine as it explains so much about our ADHD brain and the many traits, tendencies, and behaviours that come along for the ride. The more we understand our beautiful yet complex neurobiology, the more empowered we are to make sustainable and manageable changes to better enhance our lives.

So, I'm delighted to welcome this week's guest, Nicole Vignola, a neuroscientist, author, consultant, and brain performance coach, to the podcast.

Nicole's first book, Rewire: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life, will be published in May 2024. Pre-orders are available now.

On today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Nicola speak about:

• The science behind meditation
• The brain's negativity bias
• The function of the brain's 'DMN' AND 'TPN'
• How self-interruptions affect our daily life
• The power of meditation for emotional regulation
• Nicole's tips for feeling more calm and positive
• Feeling more self-aligned
• The damaging effects of your phone and social media
• Ways to be more mindful of your phone usage
• Understanding dopamine better
• The life-changing benefits of a healthier sleep routine
• How hydrating first thing can be essential for the ADHD brain
• How visualising works in the brain and how it can improve our habits
• Aphantasia and learning how to visualise

You can find out more about Nicole via her website, www.nicolesneuroscience.com.

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Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity.

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When ADHD world expert, Dr Ned Hallowell told me he also constantly worries and catastrophises, I breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm not alone," I thought, listening intently to how he combats his incessant ADHD imagination!

On today's short episode, I'm delighted to welcome back the incredible ADHD world expert Dr Edward Hallowell, a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, to the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast for our second episode together.

Not only is Dr Ned an ADHD leader, but he's also a diagnosed patient, and he has dedicated his whole career to empowering and supporting people with ADHD. He's passionate about helping neurodivergent patients thrive and develop in life with new awareness, tools and strategies. He has written a new book, ADHD Explained, which can be bought here.

He has spent the past four decades helping thousands of adults and children live happy and productive lives through his strength-based approach to neurodiversity and has ADHD and dyslexia.

During this ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast episode, Kate and Dr Hallowell speak about:

• Dr Ned's newest book - ADHD Explained
• The Default Mode Network, ADHD and learning to switch channels
• The TPN and creativity
• Holding our attention well enough to hold the TPN
• Working around worry, Dr Hallowell's tips for ADHD overthinking
• Why you might be prone to ADHD worrying and catastrophising - the ADHD imagination
• The effects of ADHD symptoms on your nervous system
• Hypervigilance, Burnout and ADHD
• Glimmers and Touchstones to help us live with more inner peace
• The future of ADHD

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Today's conversation features the incredibly insightful and informative Katie McKenna and Helen Villers. In this episode, we are talking about the impact of growing up with emotionally abusive or narcissistic parents, understanding this through the lens of neurodivergence and healing from this behaviour so we can finally break systemic generational patterns.

Helen Villiers, LLB, PG Cert, PG Dip, MA, is a psychotherapist with a master's degree in Working Therapeutically with Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents. Helen works with clients recovering from narcissistic abuse; she also specialises in autism and ADHD and is a couples counsellor, too.

Katie McKenna, BA, MIACP is an accredited psychotherapist who specialises in parentification and emotional abuse. Katie educates adults on how their childhood relationships are impacting their current relationships. She helps them recognise and heal from the lifelong impacts of dysfunctional family dynamics through the psychotherapy process.

Together, they co-host the successful podcast 'In Sight', and they have just brought out their brand new book, You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal.

On the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, with Kate, they talk about:

• Understanding the definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder - NPD
• Defining terms, such as 'Narcissist' and 'Parentification'
• The impact of growing up with an emotionally abusive parent
• How a narcissistic parent behaves and the traits of a narcissist
• How to set your own boundaries in relationships
• Recognising what are neurodivergent traits and what could've been narcissism
• Validating your trauma and feelings toward a narcissistic parent
• Emotional responsibility, motivational empathy and feeling more empowered
• Healing ourselves from emotional abuse
• Releasing resentment towards an emotionally abusive family member
• How we gaslight ourselves to think their behaviour is justifiable
• Breaking the generational cycle of trauma and doing the work so as not to pass on the abusive behaviour
• Taking responsibility for traumatised, abusive and narcissistic behaviour
• Hypervigilance and being an empath
• Understanding 'weaponised ignorance'
• Understanding infantilization and enmeshment

Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here

Follow Kate on Instagram here

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here