ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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November 02After an ADHD Diagnosis: How to Build a Life That Feels More Like You
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.

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24 min
October 29The ADHD Sweet Spot: How to Find Work and a Life You Don’t Need to Recover From
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.

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49 min
October 2140 Years of ADHD: What Pioneer Dr Kathleen Nadeau Has Learned About ADHD Women, Late Diagnosis & Thriving
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.

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1 hr 5 min
October 18ADHD Business Burnout: Hyperfocus and Redefining Success with Amanda Perry
This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see we're planning and get involved!
Today's Podcast:
One statistic changed everything for Amanda Perry. More than half of neurodivergent entrepreneurs say they only started a business because the workplace couldn’t support them.
Not a dream. A necessity.
This week’s More Yourself episode comes from my first-ever live podcast recording, with Amanda Perry, founder of Brain First and author of Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success.
Amanda has spent 18 years building businesses, 13 of them undiagnosed. Burnout after burnout. Bankruptcy. A marketing agency that grew from five people to 40 in three months. After her ADHD diagnosis at 42, she sold it and started again, this time brain first.
Champagne dreams and lemonade energy. The fear of burning out again. God mode and the crash that follows. And why so many of us end up building a prison instead of a business.
Recorded live, with your questions answered in real time.
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In this episode, we cover:
Why so many neurodivergent entrepreneurs start businesses out of necessity, not desire

Amanda’s 13 undiagnosed years in business: burnout, bankruptcy and chasing the LinkedIn version of success

What rich really means, and giving yourself permission to define success on your own terms

How Amanda built a prison instead of a business twice, and what she’s doing differently now

Why delegation feels so hard with ADHD, and the shift from VAs to an inverted Christmas tree structure

FOBO, the fear of burning out, and why shrinking your life isn’t the same as healing

God mode, hyperfocus and spotting the first sign of burnout

Interruptions, motherhood and protecting your focus when you work from home

Brain First Workplace, the dropped kerb and why neuro-inclusive design benefits everyone

Live Q&A on breaking the burnout cycle, keeping things simple and disclosing ADHD at work
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and Amanda’s journey in business

00:43 - Why so many neurodivergent founders start businesses out of necessity

02:30 - 18 years in business, 13 undiagnosed: burnout, bankruptcy and borrowed goals

05:35 - Permission to create your own version of success

07:20 - “Disgustingly rich” and what rich really means

10:48 - Building a prison, not a business

12:07 - Purpose, values and the pressure to be nice as a female founder

13:30 - Delegation, communication and why it’s quicker to do it yourself

16:04 - From VAs to a chief of staff: the inverted Christmas tree

17:33 - Self-trust, perimenopause and not knowing how you’ll wake up

18:14 - Kate on leaving PR and shrinking herself to avoid burnout

22:01 - FOBO: the fear of burning out

24:48 - Champagne dreams, lemonade energy

25:19 - Interruptions, motherhood and the nervous system

27:41 - God mode, hyperfocus and the first sign of burnout

33:07 - Brain First Workplace and open conversations at work

34:26 - Tribunals, “them and us” culture and why managers are scared

36:30 - The dropped kerb and designing for every brain

42:20 - Live Q&A: breaking out of the prison cycle

44:58 - Awareness, alignment and action

46:57 - Don’t be afraid of simplicity

48:13 - Disclosing ADHD at work

50:17 - Ideas, strategy and getting from A to Z before anyone else

52:26 - Where to find Amanda
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
Get Amanda’s book, Brain First Business: The ADHD Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success
Visit Amanda’s website: amandaperry.co.uk
Connect with Amanda on Instagram
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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1 hr 2 min
October 14Why Do I Need So Much Time to Recover From People? ADHD, Social Exhaustion and the Need to Decompress
What Actually Helps You!? This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠
Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved.
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You leave the party first. You pay extra for the room on your own. You say yes, then spend the whole evening counting down until you can go home. And somewhere along the way, you decided that made you the difficult one.
On this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Alice Bramhill, registered mental health nurse, interpersonal psychotherapist and accredited therapeutic coach specialising in neurodivergent adults. Her first book, I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!): A Neurodivergent Guide to All Types of Relationships, is out now.
Alice has nearly 30 years of clinical experience. She was diagnosed with ADHD at 47 and autism at 50, and is a parent carer to two neurodivergent children.
Masking until there’s nothing left. Being the fixer, the capable one, the people pleaser. Families who keep casting you in your old role. A nervous system that panics every time you say no.
You’re allowed to need your space.
This is a fantastic conversation that I know will resonate so strongly with so many of you.
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In this episode, we cover:
Why relationships sit at the heart of our mental health, and what interpersonal psychotherapy can offer neurodivergent adults

How masking leads to an erosion of self and a lack of authenticity in our relationships

What an emotionally sustainable life looks like, and why so many social expectations simply aren't sustainable for us

Why it's okay to leave the party after an hour, and how to communicate your social battery without shame

Rejection sensitivity and why it isn't our job to manage other people's emotions

Shrinking versus discernment, and how to navigate the fear of loneliness when you start pulling back

Setting boundaries with family when you've always been cast as the fixer, the capable one or the people pleaser

What emotional labour really means, and where information sharing ends and over-explaining begins

Why your nervous system may push back when you start saying no, and how to practise it gently

Noticing the shoulds, starting with a maybe and why it's okay to disappoint people
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and introducing Alice Bramhill
01:30 - Why Alice wrote I Need My Space
02:30 - Interpersonal psychotherapy and why relationships shape our mental health
05:30 - Masking, authenticity and the erosion of self
07:30 - Building an emotionally sustainable life
09:30 - Redefining the terms of engagement and leaving when you're done
11:30 - Rejection sensitivity and other people's emotions
14:00 - Needing space in friendships and on holidays
16:30 - Shrinking, discernment and the fear of loneliness
20:30 - Shedding, permission and life after diagnosis
21:30 - Perimenopause and caring less about what others think
25:00 - Who Alice wrote the book for
26:30 - Boundaries with family and stepping out of old roles
30:30 - What emotional labour really means
34:00 - The fixers, the capable ones and the people pleasers
36:30 - When your nervous system pushes back
39:00 - Cycle breakers and generational change
41:00 - Noticing automatic yeses and starting with a maybe
42:30 - Catching the shoulds and getting curious
44:00 - Asking why and giving yourself permission to disappoint people
46:00 - Where to find Alice's book, Substack and one-to-one support
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 Alice's website and join the waitlist for one-to-ones here

Connect with Alice on Instagram
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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51 min
October 11 The Overlap of ADHD and Autism: Do I have AuDHD?
This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved.
Understood.org's The ADHD Channel for Women features three shows hosted by three different hosts, unpacking a different side of life with ADHD. They cover everything from sex, dating, and relationships to deep dives into where neurodivergence meets the biggest news stories, like how a newly discovered gene variant could change the way we treat ADHD. There's also an ADHD coach who answers listeners' questions.
Check out The ADHD Channel for Women ⁠here
This episode from The ADHD Channel for Women is called ‘ADHD and autism: Do I have AuDHD?’ You’ll hear a clear and compassionate look at where ADHD and autism meet, where they part ways and what it means when you recognise yourself in both.
AuDHD isn’t a formal diagnosis. But it’s everywhere online, and for many late-diagnosed women it’s the first language that has ever truly fitted. Dr. J, a licensed psychologist and host of Understood.org’s ADHD and podcast, explains why the overlap is the norm rather than the exception. Research suggests that 30 to 50 percent of autistic people also meet the criteria for ADHD.
She unpacks the push and pull so many people with AuDHD describe. Craving routine but struggling to keep it. Wanting deep connection but hitting a wall of social exhaustion. She also talks honestly about what comes next, including the grief that can surface if a label you’ve found community in doesn’t become your diagnosis.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia.
For all things ADHD Women's Wellbeing, including the podcast, resources and events, head here: www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk

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15 min
October 07ADHD, Progesterone and Hormones: Life-Changing Information Every Woman Needs to Know with Dr Jolene Brighten
This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, ADHD Women's Wellbeing is putting this community, lived experiences, and practical support front and center. There are live conversations, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠
Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved.

We talk a lot about hormones and ADHD. But this conversation goes much deeper.
What if the fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, difficult periods and the way your ADHD seems to shift throughout your cycle aren’t separate problems? What if they’re all giving you information about what’s happening in your body?
This week on The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Dr Jolene Brighten for a fascinating and powerful deep dive into the biology behind ADHD in women, and some of the connections we just aren’t talking about enough.
Jolene is a board-certified naturopathic endocrinologist, nutritionist, certified menopause specialist and bestselling author of Beyond the Pill and Is This Normal? Her new book, ADHD and Women: A Guide to Understanding Your Hormones and Thriving with ADHD, is out now.
And she does not hold back in this conversation.
We get into progesterone, histamine, endometriosis, PMDD and perimenopause, and what they can mean for women with ADHD. We explore why symptoms that appear unrelated may be more connected than we realise, why so many women have spent years being passed between specialists and why understanding ADHD as something that affects the whole body can completely change the conversation.
Jolene also shares her own story, from her son’s ADHD diagnosis to being diagnosed with endometriosis after 29 years of periods and later discovering she is autistic.
This is one of those episodes that may have you joining dots you didn’t even realise were connected. If you’ve ever felt as though your hormones, brain and body are all speaking different languages, this conversation could help you understand the bigger picture.
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In this episode, we cover:
Jolene's late diagnoses of ADHD, endometriosis and autism, and why accommodations are so often mistaken for success

Why fatigue and anxiety are among the most common symptoms of endometriosis, and how it can be present without any pain

The links between ADHD, endometriosis, PMDD and fibroids, and why medicine so often treats them as coincidences

How histamine and mast cells may be connected to 2am to 4am waking, irritability and emotional dysregulation

What happens to dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and GABA when oestrogen and progesterone drop

Why hysterectomy and hormone suppression don't cure PMDD or endometriosis, and what this means for ADHD women

Body identical progesterone versus synthetic progestins, progesterone intolerance and why starting low and going slow can help

What research tells us about hormonal contraception and depression in ADHD women

Why movement is so powerful for the ADHD brain, and an honest look at why it can feel so hard to do

Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase, and why we were never designed to be productive all the time
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Jolene Brighten
02:30 - Jolene's journey to ADHD, endometriosis and autism diagnoses
05:30 - Entrepreneurship, accommodations and the support nobody sees
08:00 - What endometriosis can look like, including when there's no pain
10:00 - Jolene's endometriosis story, from childhood gut issues to secondary infertility
15:00 - Mast cells, histamine and the brain, immune and hormone connection
17:00 - Kate's experience with endometriosis, adenomyosis and continuous progesterone
21:00 - Access to care in the UK, US and Canada
23:00 - Why ADHD is the operating system you were born with
25:00 - What happens to the brain when oestrogen and progesterone drop
27:00 - PMDD: why it may be more than one condition
29:00 - NAC, mitochondria and the ADHD brain in perimenopause
32:00 - Progesterone, progestins and the research on contraception and depression
35:00 - ADHD as a full-body condition and the gut microbiome
37:00 - Progesterone intolerance, dosing and different ways of taking it
42:00 - Serotonin, dopamine and how the ADHD brain adapts
43:00 - Exercise, BDNF and giving your brain more energy
46:00 - Hysterectomies, unsupported women and the generations before us
48:00 - Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase
49:00 - Rejecting productivity culture and honouring the need to rest
53:00 - Superpowers, kryptonite and asking what it's costing you
56:00 - Where to find Jolene's book and resources
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

Get Jolene's book, ADHD and Women (also available in ebook and audiobook): drbrighten.com/adhd-and-women

Visit Jolene's website for free articles on hormones, ADHD, PMDD and endometriosis: drbrighten.com

Listen to Jolene's podcast: The Dr. Brighten Show

Connect with Jolene on Instagram: @drjolenebrighten

Watch Jolene on YouTube: @DrJoleneBrighten
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If today’s episode brought up anything for you, these organisations offer support and information:⁠⁠
Endometriosis UK Support Network⁠⁠

⁠The Miscarriage Association helpline and support services⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠Campaign Against Living Miserably
Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing 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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October 04A Community of Support: What's Coming to ADHD Women's Wellbeing
What Actually Helps YOU: This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, I'm putting community, real experiences, and practical support throughout the month. There are live podcast recordings, Instagram Lives, podcast events and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved.
This one is a little different. No guest, no workshop clip — just me, talking to you about what's coming next and why community is at the heart of everything we're building here.
Today I'm sharing a personal update about what's happening at ADHD Women's Wellbeing this October and beyond, including some exciting plans for live events in 2027, how you can get involved in ADHD Awareness Month right now, and how I want your wisdom to shape something I'm creating for this community.
This one is warm, unscripted and very much from the heart. Sign up for the ADHD WW events waitlist here
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In this episode, I cover:
What the first-ever ADHD Women's Wellbeing live event in Manchester taught me, and why I want to do more

My plans for in-person events in 2027, what they'll look and feel like, and how to get on the waitlist

Why ADHD Awareness Month 2026 is all about community, lived experience and what actually helps

The Google Form I'm creating to collect your wisdom — what makes your daily life easier with ADHD — and how your answers will shape a community workbook

How to attend free live podcast recordings this October and ask experts your questions in real time

Why I believe lived experience often comes before the research, and why I want more of your voice in this space

The legacy I want to leave through ADHD Women's Wellbeing and what I'm building towards

Why I'm doing all of this with very finite energy, a tiny team, and a genuine commitment to keeping things accessible
Links and Resources:
Visit the Events page and join the live events waitlist here

Fill in the What Actually Helps You Form here

Explore the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Workshop Library here

Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here

Join the More Yourself membership community here

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod
Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing 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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22 min
September 30Creating a More Meaningful ADHD Life
What Actually Helps You?
This ADHD Awareness Month, I’m putting real experiences, community and practical support at the heart of the conversation. Join live conversations, podcast events and opportunities to share what actually helps you. Add your name to my event waitlist as well!
Visit the Events page to see what’s happening and get involved.
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What if the burnout, the guilt and the relentless doing weren't signs that you were failing, but signs that the playbook you'd been given was never designed for you in the first place?
On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Meghan French Dunbar, bestselling author, business anthropologist and founder of Conscious Company Magazine, the first nationally distributed print magazine in the US focusing on impact-driven business.
Meghan's book, This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success, is a USA Today bestseller and Next Big Idea Club selection. She works with companies including Coach, John Deere, Torani and Kate Spade on leadership and culture strategy, writes for Forbes, Fast Company and Inc, and hosts the podcast Unbehaved. She was diagnosed with ADHD four years ago, and this conversation made a lot of sense of a lot of things.
We talk about purpose burnout, motherhood, identity, joy and what it actually looks like to build a life and career around meaning rather than productivity. Meghan is warm, honest and brilliantly funny, and this is one of those conversations that leaves you feeling both validated and quietly ready to do something differently.
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In this episode, we cover:
How Meghan's ADHD diagnosis four years ago reframed her entire career and the relentless curiosity that drove it

Why she burnt out running her own organisation, resigned from it, and spent two years rebuilding from the ground up

The difference between social success and soul success, and the three elements the most fulfilled leaders Meghan interviewed all had in common

Why sustained leadership is about the quality of your being, not the quantity of your doing

The six key predictors of burnout, and why ADHD makes several of them almost inevitable without the right support

What the broaden and build theory tells us about joy, and why nurturing it is not indulgent but a genuine performance strategy

The joy trip: what it is, why Meghan introduced it into her family and what it has given her every year since

Why ADHD women are often the outliers who model a different way of working, and why that matters for everyone around them

What enough looks like, and why deciding that with your partner is one of the most radical acts available to us

Why autonomy is the non-negotiable for so many neurodivergent entrepreneurs
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and introducing Meghan French Dunbar

02:00 - What drives Meghan's passion for business, impact and entrepreneurship

05:00 - How her ADHD diagnosis reframed decades of relentless curiosity

08:00 - Burning out as founder, resigning in 2020 and two years of rebuilding

12:00 - What the outliers taught her: soul success, purpose and quality of life

16:00 - Sustained leadership: why quality of being beats quantity of doing

19:00 - The practical foundations: sleep, movement, joy and professional support

22:00 - Why younger generations are already rewriting the playbook

25:00 - The joy trip: how it started, what it involves and why it changed everything

31:00 - The broaden and build theory: the science behind why joy makes you better at everything

35:00 - Modeling a different way for other women

38:00 - What Meghan's working life looks like now, and what enough means to her

42:00 - Autonomy, ADHD and why working for yourself so often becomes the answe
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 Meghan's website: meghanfrenchdunbar.com

Connect with Meghan on Instagram

Connect with Meghan on LinkedIn

Subscribe to Meghan's Substack: Unbehaved

Listen to Meghan's podcast: Unbehaved

Watch Meghan's TEDx talk

Get Meghan's book: This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success
Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing 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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50 min
September 28 The Collision Between ADHD, Femininity, and Gender from Understood.org
ADHD Awareness Month 2026: What Actually Helps?
This October, I'm putting community, real experiences and practical support at the heart of ADHD Awareness Month. There are live conversations and ways for you to share what actually helps in your own life. ⁠⁠Visit the Events page⁠⁠ to see what’s happening and get involved.
Understood.org's The ADHD Channel for Women features three shows hosted by three different hosts, unpacking a different side of life with ADHD. They cover everything from sex, dating, and relationships to deep dives into where neurodivergence meets the biggest news stories, like how a newly discovered gene variant could change the way we treat ADHD. There's also an ADHD coach who answers listeners' questions.
Check out The ADHD Channel for Women ⁠here
This episode from The ADHD Channel for Women is called 'I’ve never felt like a good woman...' You'll hear a complex conversation about ADHD, femininity, gender, and why talking about the hard stuff is important.
Cate sits down with Rae Jacobson, host of Understood.org’s Hyperfocus podcast, journalist, and a producer on this show. They talk about something they’ve both struggled to name: the collision between ADHD, femininity, and gender expression. They dig into what it felt like to watch other girls “get it.” The tidiness. The calm. The effortlessness. All things that executive dysfunction made feel out of reach.
They talk about the pressure to be nurturing, organized, and endlessly available — and what happens when your brain doesn’t cooperate with any of it. And they look at the research on outcomes for women and girls with ADHD."
This week’s episode is sponsored by Understood.org, the leading nonprofit dedicated to empowering the millions of people with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia.
For all things ADHD Women's Wellbeing, including the podcast, resources and events, head here: www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk

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36 min

About ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships?