ADHD Untangled

If you have ever watched your child come home shattered by another school day, sat in a meeting being told there is “nothing more we can do”, felt torn between hating the “ADHD” label and needing the support… then this episode is for you.

This week, we’re joined by someone who has been around ADHD Untangled since the very beginning. A friend, a big thinker and a man who has poured his life into changing the story for neurodivergent kids and families: Wynford Dore.

On paper, Wynford is the founder of Zing, the owner of private schools and someone who has spent millions researching the brain.

But his story starts at home, with his daughter Susie.

Susie was diagnosed as severely dyslexic around the age of nine. The message the family got was basically, this is just how it is.

As she grew up, the struggle did not stay in the classroom. It crept into her confidence, her mental health and her sense of self. She became so depressed and hopeless that she tried to take her own life, more than once.

Wynford reached the point many parents know too well. Watching his child suffer hurt more than anything else, and “nothing we can do” was not an acceptable answer.

So he did what most people only dream of.

He sold his successful business.

He poured his time, energy and money into finding a different way to help kids like Susie.

That work became the brain development programmes he runs today, helping children, adults and high performers all over the world reset how their brain works and rediscover confidence.

Recently, Wynford lost Susie. After everything they went through and everything their story has changed for others, he now carries that grief as well.

Yet he is still here, still doing this work, still fighting so fewer families have to go through what they did.

And he believes, very strongly, that the word ADHD itself has become an insult.

Not because there is anything wrong with the people who receive that label.

But because of the shame and misunderstanding that have been attached to it.

Together we untangle:

🧠 How labels like ADHD and dyslexia shape confidence, behaviour and self worth at school

🔁 What Wynford’s work shows about neuroplasticity and why the brain can change more than most of us were told

🗣 What to actually say when your child feels stupid, broken or left behind

🚪 How parents and teachers can respond when the system says “nothing more we can do”, and why that sentence is not the end of the road

🌱 Simple, real life ways to start rebuilding hope and meaning again, even after years of failed support or school trauma

Wynford brings decades of experience in brain development and working with children, families and high performers.

I bring the tangled ADHD heart, the coaching room stories and my own belief that ADHD can be both struggle and strength.

This one is tender, honest and at times emotional. It is for:

💭 Parents who are scared their child will never believe in themselves

📚 Teachers and school staff who know the system is failing kids and want to do better

🧡 ADHDers who have felt humiliated by their label, yet also suspect there is real strength in the way their brain works

If you have spent years feeling like the label ADHD is a life sentence, or feeling like you have to pretend it is all positive in order to be accepted, I want this episode to feel like a deep breath for your nervous system.

You are allowed to hold both.

You are allowed to grieve the struggle and still build a life that feels meaningful and yours.

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we are made of. 🧡

💡 Want to dive deeper?

🧡 Join the free Untangled Community → click here

🎓 Become an ADHD-Informed Coach → click here

🧘 Retreats → click here

✨ Follow us → @adhd_untangled

Lots of love and strength,

Rosie 🧡🖤

Have you ever wondered…

Why you keep chasing intense, slightly toxic love and then get bored when things finally feel calm?

If it is actually love at first sight or just your dopamine having a field day?

If you are simply “too much” for love altogether?

Whether even penguins are as faithful as we were told at school, or if they are out there mixing it up too?

Same.

If you have ever cried over someone you knew was wrong for you, felt like rejection might actually break you, or tried to turn yourself down to be “easier” to love, this episode is for you.

This week I am joined by Oxford-trained evolutionary anthropologist and real-life love scientist, Dr Anna Machin. Yes, that Dr Anna from Diary of a CEO. Together we untangle the messy, addictive, beautiful world of love through the lens of ADHD.

From the very first minute we go straight into the questions you secretly Google at 1am:

❤️ Is this love or just dopamine?

🚩 Why do I fall for red flags then get bored when things are calm?

🤯 Am I actually “too much” for love?

🐧 And if even penguins are at it, is anyone really built for lifelong monogamy?

Dr Anna brings the science. I bring the tangled ADHD heart. Together we untangle:

🧠 Why ADHD brains crave intensity and the high of early chemistry

💞 Why “love at first sight” is a myth and what your brain is really doing

💔 Rejection sensitivity, heartbreak withdrawal and why it hurts so much

📱 Dating apps, overstimulation and why they fry your brain

🐧 What penguins, cheating and monogamy can actually teach us about real connection

This one is tender, funny in places and very real. It is for anyone who has ever been told they are too intense, too emotional, too dramatic or just a bit too much.

If you have spent years trying to be smaller, quieter or easier to love, I want this episode to feel like a deep breath for your nervous system. You are not too much. You simply have a brain and a heart that work differently, and you deserve relationships that get that.

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we are made of. 🧡

💡 Want to dive deeper?

🧡 Join the free Untangled Community → click here

🎓 Become an ADHD Coach → click here

🧘 Retreats → click here

✨ Follow us → @adhd_untangled

Lots of love and strength,

Rosie 🧡🖤

If your brain is telling you one thing (“be good, eat clean, regulate”) but your body is quietly raiding the cupboards at 10pm, this episode will make you feel wildly seen.

This week, we’re going back in time to our ADHD Untangled Live Event with everyone’s favourite go to dancing neuroscientist, Dr Miguel Mateas, to talk about something we don’t get taught enough about: the gut-brain connection in ADHD.

Because so many of us have been told our eating is about willpower. Dr Miguel is here to say: it’s about regulation.

Your gut, your microbes, your sleep, your nervous system - they’re all talking to your ADHD brain.

We get into why bingeing shows up, why restriction makes it worse, why late diagnosis, trauma, and ADHD results in more vulnerability to disordered eating, and how to rebuild trust with your body without 57 food rules. 

🧠 What we’re Untangling:

🌀 How ADHD, trauma and disordered eating overlap

🥗 Why we use food to self-regulate (and why that’s not “weakness”)

🦠 What the gut-brain axis actually is - in normal human language

🛏 The one habit that helps your gut and your hunger cues more than any diet

🫂 How connection, touch and movement regulate the nervous system too

🚫 Artificial dyes, alcohol and “is this actually making ADHD worse?”

🍰 Why food is love - and why we keep denying ourselves it

💫 Why listen:

Because when you understand your biology, you stop blaming your personality.

This conversation will help you work with your ADHD body, not against it - so meals feel calmer, binges feel less shameful, and you remember you’re not broken, you’re sensitive.

🧡 Join the free Untangled Community → click here

🎓ADHD Coach Training → click here

🧘Retreats → click here

✨ Follow us → @adhd_untangled

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of. 🧡

Lots of love & strength,

Rosie

If some weeks you feel like you’re smashing life in God Mode and the next you’re crying on the kitchen floor, wondering what the hell happened, if your mood, focus, or motivation swing from one extreme to the next, and you’re left questioning your sanity... you are not crazy.

This week, we’re going back in time to the ADHD Untangled Live Event to talk about something that could change everything: your relationships, your energy, your health, your life.

We’re untangling hormones with the incredible Adele Wimsett, women’s health practitioner, hormone expert and fellow ADHDer. Adele is on a mission to help us understand the powerful link between hormones and ADHD, and trust me, after this chat, you’ll never roll your eyes at the word hormones again.

And guys, don’t skip this one. Hormones aren’t just a woman’s issue. They’re a human issue.

🧠 What we’re Untangling:

⚡️ How hormones really impact ADHD (and why we’ve been missing it)

🌙 Why your energy, mood and focus can swing so wildly

💬 The truth about PMS, perimenopause and progesterone

💞 How partners, friends and families can actually support us better

🥚 Why understanding your cycle could literally save your sanity

💫 Why listen:

Because this episode will help you stop fighting yourself and start working with your body. Whether you’re cycling, perimenopausal or supporting someone who is, this is essential listening. It’s the science, the stories and the stuff we all should’ve been taught years ago.

🧡 Join the free Untangled Community → click here

🎓 ADHD Coach Training → click here

🧘 Retreats → click here

✨ Follow us → @adhd_untangled

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of. 🧡

Lots of love & strength,

Rosie

✨ If your brain moves faster than the world around you, if you’re tired of trying to fix yourself instead of understanding yourself, or if you just want to feel seen, understood, and a little less alone, you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

Welcome back to Season 6 of the ADHD Untangled Podcast 🧡

In this first episode, Rosie swaps the host seat for the hot seat as her friend (and fellow Untangler) Shareefa takes the mic. Together, they talk openly about the messy, beautiful truth behind ADHD Untangled addiction, recovery, relationships, shame, and how movement became Rosie’s anchor when everything else fell apart.

It’s honest, funny, and full of those moments that make you feel seen.

🧠 What we’re Untangling:

✨ The chaos before diagnosis

💬 Shame, impulsivity and self-sabotage

🧘 Movement as medicine

❤️ ADHD & relationships

💡 Why sharing your story heals more than self-help ever could

💫 Why listen:

Because this episode is a reminder that you were never broken - you just needed to understand your brain and see yourself differently.

Join the free Untangled Community → click here

ADHD Coach Training → click here

Retreats → click here

Follow us → @adhd_untangled

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of.

Lots of love & strength,

Rosie

Hey Untanglers! 

This week, I'm so excited to bring SUCH an important topic back to the podcast and one that is rarely talked about: missing periods and how ADHD and lifestyle choices might be playing a bigger role than you’d think... 

Dr Sykes is an author, scientist, and expert when it comes to understanding hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA). Nicola’s mission, following her own struggle with HA,  is to help people regain their periods, nourish their bodies, and ditch the stress-filled culture of over-exercising and under-eating.

We’ll talk about:

• How ADHD’s intensity can fuel disordered eating and extreme behaviours
• The link between HA, stress, and that sneaky cortisol…
• Why “fueling your body” isn’t just a catchphrase - it’s the game changer you need.
• Nicola’s practical tips for getting untangled and healthy again (hint: carbs are your friend 
  ).
• The emotional rollercoaster of recovery, self-acceptance, and… dating while healing.

This is a very raw and real episode for both me and Nicola as we share our personal struggles, as well as the laughs, revelations, and “a-ha!” moments we had throughout.

If you’ve ever felt lost in a sea of diet culture, or wondered if stress and ADHD are affecting your wellbeing, this episode might just be the missing piece which makes the full picture make sense… So listen in and let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of!

You can find out more about Dr Sykes work, including her book, support groups and consultations through her website.

ADHD COACHING

Have you ever felt the need to change who you are in order to fit in?

me too!

And I’ve spent so many years hectically running around this world trying to be everything and everyone else but my true myself

Party girl, house wife, rebel, addict, yogi…. To name a few

Hoping that eventually, something would work and something would fix me and make me normal…

None of it ever did.

But two things in my life that have allowed me to live a more meaningful and authentic life and that is Yoga & My ADHD Diagnosis, which is why I am on a Mission to support as many individuals with ADHD to turn their struggle into strength with ADHD through Movement & ADHD Coaching.

Find out more about my coaching & training programmes below!

1-1 Coaching with Rosie

ADHD Certified Trainings
https://academy1.untangledco.com/home-page

The ADHD Movement Group Coaching

@adhd_untangled
untangledco.com

Hello Untanglers, in today's ADHD Rewind I'm excited to re-introduce the one and only Mrs ADHD!  

Sam is a kind hearted, inspiring, hilarious and amazing soul.

Sam and her husband James Brown are doing some AMAZING and impactful work in the ADHD space with their charity ADHD Adults UK 

In todays conversation we cover ADHD diagnosis, medication,  getting up side down, dopamine showing up in our relationships including how this can show up in our sex lives. Sam also speaks about her experience with pei menopause.

Really authentic, informative and proves that once we start to treat our adhd that we can really start to live a life with less struggle and more purpose. 

https://www.adhdadult.uk/

Let's get Untangled and show the world what we are made of! 🧡

ADHD COACHING

Have you ever felt the need to change who you are in order to fit in?

me too!

And I’ve spent so many years hectically running around this world trying to be everything and everyone else but my true myself

Party girl, house wife, rebel, addict, yogi…. To name a few

Hoping that eventually, something would work and something would fix me and make me normal…

None of it ever did.

But two things in my life that have allowed me to live a more meaningful and authentic life and that is Yoga & My ADHD Diagnosis, which is why I am on a Mission to support as many individuals with ADHD to turn their struggle into strength with ADHD through Movement & ADHD Coaching.

Find out more about my coaching & training programmes below!

1-1 Coaching with Rosie

ADHD Certified Trainings
https://academy1.untangledco.com/home-page

The ADHD Movement Group Coaching

@adhd_untangled
untangledco.com

In today's ADHD Rewind I'm re-Introducing our extraordinary guest, a figure I've eagerly awaited on this podcast since it began—a true hero in my eyes.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join us in welcoming the remarkable Professor James Brown!

Not only is Professor James Brown one of the esteemed hosts of the ADHD Adults podcast, but he also wears the hat of a charity owner and is the proud spouse of a previous ADHD Untangled guest, the incredible Mrs. ADHD.

With over two decades of dedicated research into the intricate world of hormones, James is a true authority on the subject. Given some recent personal challenges I've faced and the shared struggles of our friends and clients, it was imperative that we tapped into his wealth of knowledge. Engaging in a conversation about hormones was genuinely enlightening, and James's passion for the topic was evident throughout our discussion.

A profound revelation for me was discovering that hormones play a pivotal role in virtually every aspect of our lives. This episode offered me reassurance in understanding that the ebb and flow of emotions and experiences, whether throughout the month or our life journey, is perfectly normal. It's not merely us feeling like we're on an emotional rollercoaster; hormones are at the heart of this intricate process.

Get the tissues out as this  episode is a tear jerker as James shares honestly and openly  about his own struggles and strengths with ADHD,  sharing his passion and determination for helping others through his podcast.
 
It was an absolute honour and pleasure to interview James and was extremely comforting to know that YES hormones affect every aspect of your life and solidifies the notion that it is OK not to feel OK sometimes!

I really hope that you enjoy this one and fall in love with the absolutely amazing Professor James Brown!

 Podcast Website: Visit us at theadhdadults.uk Social Media: Follow us @theadhdadults Charity Website: Explore more about our charity at adhdadult.uk Charity's Social Media: Connect with us @adhdadultuk

 Let's get Untangled and show the world what we are made of! 🧡

ADHD COACHING

Have you ever felt the need to change who you are in order to fit in?

me too!

And I’ve spent so many years hectically running around this world trying to be everything and everyone else but my true myself

Party girl, house wife, rebel, addict, yogi…. To name a few

Hoping that eventually, something would work and something would fix me and make me normal…

None of it ever did.

But two things in my life that have allowed me to live a more meaningful and authentic life and that is Yoga & My ADHD Diagnosis, which is why I am on a Mission to support as many individuals with ADHD to turn their struggle into strength with ADHD through Movement & ADHD Coaching.

Find out more about my coaching & training programmes below!

1-1 Coaching with Rosie

ADHD Certified Trainings
https://academy1.untangledco.com/home-page

The ADHD Movement Group Coaching

@adhd_untangled
untangledco.com

Hey Untanglers! 

This week I’m looking back to my revealing chat with the amazing Sarah Templeton! Sarah is one of the most passionate ADHD advocates I have ever met and she's on a serious mission to shake up what we know about ADHD, especially in prisons.

Sarah shares some jaw-dropping stats, including up to 90% of people in prison might have ADHD! Let that sink in… 

But here’s the epic part: Sarah’s working tirelessly to turn so many lives around in huge ways, with some of her clients going from prison to becoming lawyers, footballers, and chefs. Oh, and did I mention she’s authored super helpful books for parents and teachers as well as launched the ADHD Liberty charity too. 

Sarah is true inspiration for the community and is here to empower us all to show up and fight for ourselves and others. So take a listen, get Untangled and show the world what you’re made of!

You can catch the full interview here.

Follow Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/sarahtempletonadhd

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of 

ADHD COACHING

Have you ever felt the need to change who you are in order to fit in?

me too!

And I’ve spent so many years hectically running around this world trying to be everything and everyone else but my true myself

Party girl, house wife, rebel, addict, yogi…. To name a few

Hoping that eventually, something would work and something would fix me and make me normal…

None of it ever did.

But two things in my life that have allowed me to live a more meaningful and authentic life and that is Yoga & My ADHD Diagnosis, which is why I am on a Mission to support as many individuals with ADHD to turn their struggle into strength with ADHD through Movement & ADHD Coaching.

Find out more about my coaching & training programmes below!

1-1 Coaching with Rosie

ADHD Certified Trainings
https://academy1.untangledco.com/home-page

The ADHD Movement Group Coaching

@adhd_untangled
untangledco.com

Is ADHD medication right for me?
Do I have to take it every single day?
Am I a failure if I decide to stop?

These are the questions so many of us quietly carry around — and in this episode, I sit down with Joseph Pack, founder of Drug Free ADHD, to bring them out into the open.

Together, we untangle:

🧡 The hidden risks of long-term medication — from sleep disruption to chronic illness.
🧡 The shame stories around starting, stopping, or changing meds (and why none of it means failure).
🧡 Heart rate variability (HRV) as a simple way to see how your body is really coping.
🧡 Why “one-size-fits-all” ADHD care is dangerous — and what a personalised approach can look like.
🧡 The power of lived experience over textbook answers — and why sometimes, you’ve just got to “make it exist first.”

This isn’t about being pro- or anti-medication. It’s about real talk, no judgement, and giving you the knowledge and permission to make informed choices that actually work for your life.

Follow Joseph here:
✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephpackcom

✨ Website: https://www.drugfreeadhd.com/

Let’s get untangled and show the world what we’re made of 🧡

ADHD COACHING

Have you ever felt the need to change who you are in order to fit in?

me too!

And I’ve spent so many years hectically running around this world trying to be everything and everyone else but my true myself

Party girl, house wife, rebel, addict, yogi…. To name a few

Hoping that eventually, something would work and something would fix me and make me normal…

None of it ever did.

But two things in my life that have allowed me to live a more meaningful and authentic life and that is Yoga & My ADHD Diagnosis, which is why I am on a Mission to support as many individuals with ADHD to turn their struggle into strength with ADHD through Movement & ADHD Coaching.

Find out more about my coaching & training programmes below!

1-1 Coaching with Rosie

ADHD Certified Trainings
https://academy1.untangledco.com/home-page

The ADHD Movement Group Coaching

@adhd_untangled
untangledco.com