Emotional dysregulation and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) are two of the most challenging elements of ADHD, yet it's often not flagged up when we first learn about ADHD.  In this week's episode, Kate talks to Marcy Caldwell,  a clinical psychologist and passionate ADHD advocate based in Philadelphia, PA. Marcy is the founder of ADDept.org, a blog and digital resource helping adults with ADHD create a life that works for, not against, their brains. During today's episode, Kate and Marcy speak about:Noticing your stress markersRecognising how YOUR emotions workOverstimulation and noiseStrategies to help emotional dysregulationHow emotions can derail usHow habit changes and awareness can help us with overstimulation  Using EFT tapping to help emotional dysregulationHow your emotional patterns can play outWhat is RSD, and how does it show up in ADHD?The impact RSD has on our emotions, productivity and beliefsTips for tracking our cycles, noticing when we're more vulnerable and regulating emotionsHonouring ourselves during our more sensitive times and carving out time on our own
Here's a link to Kate's Tap 'n Talk Technique she mentions in the podcast, as well as her other resources to help manage ADHD-related emotional dysregulation and RSD by using EFT/Tapping. Join the waitlist for my new program, ADHD Mindset & Energy Re-Programme Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner helping overwhelmed yet unfulfilled (many with ADHD like her) women find more calm, balance, health, compassion, creativity and clarity.  Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here. Follow the podcast on Instagram here Follow Kate on Instagram here Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine here You can connect with Marcy on social media via Instagram @addept_org, or her Facebook community, ADDept ADHD Community.

Understanding RSD alongside ADHD with Marcy Caldwell

Are you ready to feel healthier, calmer and more balanced with your ADHD? Do you need help getting your emotional health, lifestyle and health on track but not sure where to begin? Perhaps you're newly diagnosed with ADHD and need some insights and perspectives on how you can turn your life around following this new discovery? In this new podcast, ADHD lifestyle & wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner, mum of four and ADHD herself, Kate Moryoussef will be having conversations with global experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors about how we can harness our wellbeing to work alongside our brains and enhance our lives as women with ADHD. So whether you're struggling with your nutrition, motivation to exercise, need help to calm your nervous system, struggle with anxiety, have found sleep difficult or simply looking for guidance on how to live a calmer and more balanced life - this podcast is for you. Kate will be bringing in a variety of guests and topics to help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance - no more self-criticism, judgement or blame - just honest, straight-talking conversations to help you live a kinder and more authentic life.

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If you're currently feeling overwhelmed and burnt out, join me for a new live workshop on Friday, 24th May, at 1 p.m. All details are here. 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 aboutAdvocating for adjustments in the workplaceMasking ADHD in the workplaceTalking about your ADHD diagnosis at workReasonable diversity adjustments, training and policies in the workplaceCorporate neurodiversityCelebrating achievements alongside RSDKnowing our rights within the workplaceLeanne's books, coaching and coursesBurnout and our ADHD brainsAdvocacy and our sense of social justiceHow Leanne changed her relationship with social mediaThe power of ADHD coaching
Also my new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here. Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine here

How To Ask For Help At Work and Reduce Burnout with Leanne Maskell

Check out Kate's brand-new workshops and resources here. 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 angerProcessing anger in a positive wayParenting overwhelmShame about our emotional dysregulationConforming to social expectationsWorking 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-compassionAsking for help with parental tasks Parenting neurodivergent children and the complexities Being an adult without talking about kids
Thanks to our sponsor, Get Dopa! Created by and for neurodivergent brains, this smart supplement contains 16 powerful nootropic ingredients. Use code Kate10 at the checkout to get your 10% discount. Click here to find out more. Look at some of Kate's ADHD 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. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kate_moryoussef/" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

ADHD Parenting Rage and Emotional Dysregulation

Check out all of Kate's latest workshops and resources here 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 neurodivergenceHow can we stimulate and activate the cerebellumStepping out of our thinking brain, the pre-frontal cortex and executive thinking and using the cerebellum moreWhat we need to know about the cerebellum and ADHDNew ways of learning for neurodivergent brainsCreating new neural pathways and plasticity to enhance the cerebellumWynford's Zing programme to help people activate their cerebellumActivities and ways to help activate the cerebellum
Check out Kate's latest workshop and 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.

The Cerebellum and ADHD - what we need to know!

Did you know that we can create new neural pathways using neuroplasticity by activating a part of the brain called the cerebellum? By enhancing this part of our brain - over the pre-frontal cortex - we 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, the owner of Arnold Lodge School and also formed Educational Development International plc.  For the last 20 years Wynford 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 conversation, Kate and Wynford talked about:Wynford's personal story about his daughterWhat is the cerebellum and why is it so important to neurodivergenceHow can we stimulate and activate the cerebellumStepping out of our thinking brain, the pre-frontal cortex and executive thinking and using the cerebellum moreCreating new neural pathways and plasticity to enhance the cerebellumWynford's Zing programme to help people activate their cerebellumActivities and ways to help activate the cerebellum
You can find Wynford on Instagram at @zingperformance and access his FREE anxiety resources here or take the ADHD assessment here.  Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here. Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine here

Mini Episode: Wynford Dore

Check out all of Kate's latest workshops and resources here 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 wealthWhy 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 moneyCatherine's mission is to empower women to hold and attract wealth How Catherine came to her diagnosis of ADHDUnderstanding our financial core beliefs and healing for the next generationUsing somatic practices to heal from financial traumaHer inspiring journey to want to help women with their finances What financial control and abuse can look like  
If you need further support following this episode, head here:  Surviving Economic Abuse  Financial Support line freephone: 08081968845 Financial abuse: spotting the signs and leaving safely Womens AidCheck out Kate's latest workshop and 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.

Understanding RSD alongside ADHD with Marcy Caldwell

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