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On today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' we have the incredible Leanne Maskell. Leanne is an ADHD coach, author, and activist, having presented to the World Health Organization on improving global access to support for ADHD.

Previously working in mental health and disability law, Leanne set up ADHD Works to empower as many people as possible to learn how to make ADHD work for them through courses, talks, and coaching. After being diagnosed with ADHD aged 25, Leanne published three books, including ‘ADHD: an A to Z’.

During today's conversation, Kate and Leanne talk about

• Advocating for adjustments in the workplace
• Masking ADHD in the workplace
• Talking about your ADHD diagnosis at work
• Reasonable diversity adjustments, training and policies in the workplace
• Corporate neurodiversity
• Celebrating achievements alongside RSD
• Knowing our rights within the workplace
• Leanne's books, coaching and courses
• Burnout and our ADHD brains
• Advocacy and our sense of social justice
• How Leanne changed her relationship with social media
• The power of ADHD coaching

Also my new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

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No matter how much you love your children, any parent will admit that you have had a moment (or several!) of 'mom rage', and if this is you, I hope this conversation will help you release some of the shame you may feel. Not only do we focus on this, but we also discuss the compassion we need to show ourselves and discuss all the many moving parts of losing our sh*t as parents, including emotional dysregulation, overwhelm, resentment, society and perimenopause. I hope you find this conversation inclusive, helpful, healing, funny and relatable. And listen out for the very last few minutes, where we address some key practical tools to helping anyone out who feels this emotional dysregulation most days.

This week's guest is Minna Dubin, the author of MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood (Seal Press).

Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, Oprah Daily, Salon, Parents, Romper, and elsewhere. As a leading feminist voice on 'Mom Rage', Minna has appeared on MSNBC, Good Morning America, The Tamron Hall Show, The BBC Woman’s Hour, and NPR. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, two kids, and no pets because enough is enough.

On this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Minna and Kate speak about:

• The mental load of being a parent
• Allowing yourself to feel your anger
• Processing anger in a positive way
• Parenting overwhelm
• Shame about our emotional dysregulation
• Conforming to social expectations
• Working hard to keep regulated
• The build-up of anger and resentment
• Creating a support system for yourself
• Letting go of martyrdom and allowing in self-compassion
• Asking for help with parental tasks
• Parenting neurodivergent children and the complexities
• Being an adult without talking about kids

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Did you know that we can create new neural pathways using neuroplasticity by activating a part of the brain called the cerebellum? Enhancing this part of our brain - over the pre-frontal cortex - can ease and lessen our ADHD symptoms and create a more effortless daily life.

This week's guest is Wynford Dore, an entrepreneur on a mission to change the lives of one million children. Wynford is the founder of Zing Brain Development programmes, and for the last twenty years, He has focused on changing the world, one brain at a time. He's funded many research projects and now works with the leading academics to determine the best solutions that successfully accelerate and develop learning in the brain—which finds our hidden potential and increases mental capacity…. including creating greater, stronger emotional regulation.

During today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Wynford talked about:

• What is the cerebellum and why is it so important to neurodivergence
• How can we stimulate and activate the cerebellum
• Stepping out of our thinking brain, the pre-frontal cortex and executive thinking and using the cerebellum more
• What we need to know about the cerebellum and ADHD
• New ways of learning for neurodivergent brains
• Creating new neural pathways and plasticity to enhance the cerebellum
• Wynford's Zing programme to help people activate their cerebellum
• Activities and ways to help activate the cerebellum

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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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Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

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Healing from financial abuse or trauma can feel scary. Our nervous system may have been used to being hypervigilant and disempowered around money due to generational trauma and not understanding our neurodivergence. Many of us don't understand the energy of money, and so much shame can be attached to our sense of self, self-worth and our unconscious relationship to money.

This week's episode features the incredible Catherine Morgan, a multi-award-winning qualified Financial Adviser, Certified Financial Coach, Financial Abuse Specialist ®, Inherited family trauma healer, and financial therapist who specialises in helping women feel more deserving of holding money through somatic, therapeutic, and practical tools. Catherine is on a mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment & resilience for 1 million people worldwide.

In this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Catherine and Kate speak about:

• The connection between your nervous system and your wealth
• Why practising gratitude can increase your ability to hold money
• How to explore your past family trauma around money
• Letting go of old beliefs you have about your ability to make money
• Catherine's mission is to empower women to hold and attract wealth
• How Catherine came to her diagnosis of ADHD
• Understanding our financial core beliefs and healing for the next generation
• Using somatic practices to heal from financial trauma
• Her inspiring journey to want to help women with their finances
• What financial control and abuse can look like

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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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Looking for a fulfilling and fun career that doesn't lead to burnout and boredom, with full awareness of your ADHD? Amanda Perry is the person to listen to and this clip is as wise as they get!

As many of us know, overworking and not prioritising our mental health can be a trait many of us relate to - this may have been a pattern your undiagnosed self fell into for many years.

We discuss this with guest Amanda Perry, a serial entrepreneur and ADHD advocate. Following her diagnosis in 2020, she realized she had built a prison instead of a business, so she set about creating a life that worked WITH her brain instead of against it. She now helps other founders create their own version of success, balancing the value of time, energy, and money.

In today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Amanda talked about:

• Getting clear on your values so you can create a career that includes them
• Deciding how you want your work to make you feel
• Non-negotiable values for our ADHD careers
• Having fun, creating systems and making money!
• Amanda's journey in business being undiagnosed ADHD
• Creating ADHD-friendly systems to make life easier
• Having the courage to change and pivot in business
• Upper limiting ourselves as self-protection
• Putting our nervous system first
• Having autonomy over your mental health

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

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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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

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

If you'd like further support, my ADHD Women's Wellbeing Hormone Series is now available, with new resources regularly added. Learn how hormones are inextricably linked to our ADHD as women, advocate, and empower yourself and your loved ones with the most up-to-date information from specialists on hormones, ADHD, cycles, women, health, nutrition, genetic testing, lifestyle, menopause, and more! Click here for all the details and get access.

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

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Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here