Migraines and ADHD are something I hear about a lot in my ADHD female community. I also relate to this from a personal perspective with one of my ADHD daughters suffering from migraines, as well as quite a few friends. Migraines can be a lifelong debilitating condition alongside the many other symptoms that come with them.

Today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast episode explores the very powerful connection between migraines and neurodivergence in women with my guest, Diane Ducarme, the contemporary master of migraine investigation. Her unique approach combines the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine with cutting-edge technology to unearth the intricate root causes of migraines weaving on top of genetics. Diane’s relentless inquisitive mind for highly complex problems is what allows her to deliver life-transforming results, which is the fuel to her energy.

What sets Diane apart is her emphasis on the power of functional foods. Unlike conventional approaches focusing on eliminating foods, Diane adds new elements to the equation. Her dedication to unravelling the mysteries of migraines has inspired a podcast, "Migraine Heroes," and her company, Nectar Health, is at the forefront of this remarkable journey towards migraine relief and wellness.

On this episode, Kate and Diane speak about:

• A digestive superfood that could help your migraines
• The vagus nerve and the connection to migraines
• Why migraines could be related to your ADHD
• How your digestive system can hold the keys to health
• The connection between your brain function and your food
• The profound wisdom of Chinese traditional medicine
• How Hormonal shifts affect your gut and brain
• Having period cycles that can actually feel good
• The effects of endometriosis on the digestive system
• What chinese traditional medicine can teach you about ADHD

Find out more about Diane and her work on her website www.mynectarhealth.com

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

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Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and 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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Undiagnosed ADHD, at best, can be a life-long nuisance and energy-sapper, but at worst, it can trigger the worst of mental health issues, including suicide ideation.

Unfortunately, this week's guest, Priyanka Patel, a pharmacist and who was diagnosed with ADHD at 27, knows this all too well.

She was diagnosed with depression in 2020 and, despite her efforts to try and get an ADHD assessment, was not listened to by her GP. Priyanka was then put on a variety of medications, which led to a significant decline in her mental health.

Since finally getting her ADHD diagnosis, Priyanka's life has transformed, and now she is on a mission to ensure no other woman has to go through what she did.

During this week's episode, Kate and Priyanka talk about:

• Priyanka's mental health and diagnosis story
• How Priyanka's family dealt with her diagnosis
• Focussing on all our negatives instead of our strengths
• The stigma of mental health, ADHD and medication in Indian culture
• How to approach medication for your situation
• Cultural views of neurodiversity
• How ADHD Medication works in your system
• Tips to help feel better while taking medication
• Subtle ways our ADHD symptoms creep up
• Accommodations we can choose to help ourselves
• Priyanka's work to improve NHS GPs' knowledge of ADHD symptoms in women
• Increasing awareness and screening of ADHD in GPs

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! 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. 

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Who knew talking about financial wellbeing and accounting could be this fascinating and inspiring? When you hear this episode, you'll see why I'm so giddy about it!

My guest this week on The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast is Rachel Harris. Rachel is disrupting what it means to be an accountant, a business owner and an employer in 2023. She is a TEDx speaker, content creator, author, business owner and, most importantly... an accountant! She is passionate about free financial education for everyone.

During this week's podcast episode, Kate and Rachel spoke about:

• Rachel being profoundly deaf and how she became so successful despite this challenge
• Communication preferences in business
• Financial fears
• Asking clients what they need
• Breaking down barriers of fear
• The trauma of not understanding money or accounts
• Asking for help without shame
• Financial wellbeing routines
• Upper limiting ourselves with ADHD
• Removing judgment and harnessing our differences to create evolution and change
• Leaning into our strengths and embracing new industries
• Updating the maths education and careers advice, especially for neurodivergent brains

Rachel has also generously shared two free resources with the listeners—her 'Accounting 101' video, which you can access here, and her 'Financial Wellbeing' video, which you can watch now by clicking here.

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

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

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and 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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ADHD can bring many opposing challenges and connotations and can feel like heavy energy to deal with. Yet, through gentle curiosity, we can find new options to reprogram our thinking and switch our emotional energy to create a happier, calmer and more fulfilling family life.

Despite the challenges, we can focus on the things we're proud of, which lift us up. We can create more internal strength and greatness as parents—life can be easier than we believe.

This week’s ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast guest is Avigail Gimpel, a mum of six, a special education teacher, and a college lecturer. Avigail also supports adults with ADHD in identifying the root causes of their symptoms and shares the tools you need to journey joyfully toward your goals. Her new book, Hyper Healing, Show Me the Science: Making Sense of Your Child's ADHD Diagnosis, is now out.

During today's episode, Kate and Avigail speak about:

• Self-belief, getting unstuck and reinforcing old stories
• Creating new habits
• Positive messaging for both ADHD children and adults
• Epigenetics, trauma and how that impacts our ADHD
• How instant gratification personality plays into ADHD
• Lesser known explanations neurological explanations for what is and isn't ADHD
• Why brain scans don't always work for the ADHD brain
• External environmental factors of ADHD
• Self-empowering ourselves and our kids to help them thrive with ADHD
• The effect of negative messaging in childhood and the power of a compliment
• Breaking generational cycles and habits and then forgiving ourselves for being human

Kate's new four-part on-demand workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle and 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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The word 'hope' to so many of us can feel ambiguous and distant and yet in this conversation, my guest Gail Muller, a Cornish adventurer, author, speaker, and coach, breaks down the power of hope through a late in life ADHD diagnosis. This is a riveting conversation where we learn that we can always choose hope from the depths of life's challenges.

Gail has spent twenty years in education: teaching, leading, and consulting globally, helping raise aspirations and encouraging life-long learning for all. She passionately advocates for the belief that our broken bits can also be superpowers. Recently diagnosed with ADHD, she also struggled for fifteen years with debilitating chronic pain.

In 2019, after considerable physical rehabilitation, she walked the Appalachian Trail in the USA, later writing a bestselling book about the experience called Unlost. Gail advocates for living a life that’s courageous and true to oneself. She runs popular online courses and residential retreats in Cornwall and gives talks and workshops worldwide, encouraging people to dig into their creativity, build resilience, and grow in confidence.

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

• Gail's chronic pain journey
• Hope and acceptance can exist together
• How to use hope in life and how Gail teaches it to her students
• ADHD and the connection between chronic pain, hypermobility, inflammation
• Unexplained answers, pain and neurodivergence
• Hope as an energy
• Becoming empowered with more answers to thrive with ADHD
• How to stop fighting against ourselves
• Hopeful attitude switch
• Gail's ADHD diagnosis validation and understanding
• Gail's post-diagnosis crash
• Generational healing and processing after a diagnosis

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

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 helping overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly-diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

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Do you feel your nervous system is constantly heightened and dysregulated? Perhaps the feeling of hypervigilance, anxiety, and not being able to settle? This is a prevalent theme I hear from many of us with ADHD - myself included.

If so, Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

In this week’s shorter ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom episode, I chat with Lisa Ryan, an experienced trauma-informed physiotherapist and somatic therapy practitioner. Lisa supports individuals (many with ADHD) who experience persistent (chronic) pain and health issues such as fibromyalgia, long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), unexplained physical symptoms, burnout, tension headaches/migraines, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and many more. Lisa’s mission is simple - to help people find freedom from pain and troublesome symptoms, live well and thrive.

During today's podcast episode, Lisa and I talk about:

• ADHD masking and its impact on the nervous system
• Creating more safety in our body
• How to move trauma through your body
• How our busy society and little downtime contribute to a heightened nervous system
• Why chronic pain, CFS and fibromyalgia is connected to high levels of stress and trauma in our nervous system
• Incorporating fun movement, nature, grounding and joy to settle and nurture the nervous system
• Self-holding, self-soothing and using different parts of our body to calm and regulate
• The basic needs of the nervous system and how to meet them
• ADHD and Hypervigilance

To connect with Lisa, head to her website, www.lisaryanphysiotherapy.com or connect on Instagram.

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! 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 helping overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly-diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

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Here on the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm passionate about bringing you the conversations that improve well-being and quality of life after a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis.

Today, we have another show-stopper of an episode! In today's discussion, we discuss the latest findings in epigenetics, neuroscience and nutrition with Dr Rachel V. Gow, PhD, nutritional Neuroscientist, Neuropsychologist and Neurodevelopmental specialist with expertise in various mental health conditions and associative learning and behaviour differences. In addition, Dr. Gow is

Dr Gow, also a registered nutritionist, has published 22 peer-reviewed book chapters and scientific papers. She has extensive knowledge of neurodiverse learning and behavioural differences and the effects of dopamine-enhancing brain‐selective nutrients. Her book - “Smart Foods for ADHD and Brain Health” - is available on Amazon.

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

• Rachael's upbringing and how she became a young mum
• Being an ambitious, single parent
• Battling the stigma of ADHD in the school system 20+ years ago
• Raising a neurodivergent child as a young mother in the 90s
• What Rachael learnt about food and the link to her son's behaviour
• Why Dr Gow wanted to study nutrition and neuroscience
• The connection between diet and ADHD symptoms and behaviour
• The impacts of ultra-processed food on the ADHD brain and gut
• The effects of dietary sugar on the brain
• Addiction, dopamine and the ADHD brain
• Cooking whole foods and involving your children
• New findings that suggest Epigenetics play a role in ADHD
• Using lifestyle to support our epigenetics
• Implementing nutritional changes for an ADHD family
• Making changes in our lifestyle and nutrition to celebrate

Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.

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

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

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"People with ADHD don't want to be slowed down by the dots"

Joining Kate on today's episode is ADHD life coach, mentor, consultant and professional cellist, Jay Emme. Listen to the full episode her:

During this episode, hear Kate and Jay talk about:

• ADHD, creativity and having lots of interests
• How music and ADHD work together
• How particular sounds are more intriguing to the neurodiverse brain
• Growing up un-diagnosed
• Managing our nervous system and learning how to use our ADHD brains for positivity
• Trying to relax and do "nothing" with ADHD
• Not allowing ADHD to define your life
• Rethinking our thinking
• Being black and having ADHD
• The mental health challenges that come with ADHD
• Undoing stereotypes, stigmas and historic beliefs that can hold women back
• Our love of music and ADHD

Jay is helping ADHD creatives & entrepreneurs smash goals and LIVE LIFE! Through her coaching work, she is aiming to empower her clients to know that ADHD doesn't have to define your life and that you CAN be confident, do amazing things and appreciate your own awesomeness.

Find Jay as @cosmicgirlie on social media

And you can connect with her via her website

To download Kate’s new, free guides: 'Suspect you have ADHD...What Next?' and 'The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing' toolkits click here. 

Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! 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 helping overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly-diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

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Welcome to a new episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here. Check out all the ADHD Hormone Series Workshops here.

This is one of the most inspiring and empowering episodes I've recorded. We are at the cusp of new understandings about combining medical disciplines so we can understand ADHD in girls and women better through the lens of both hormones and psychiatry. This is for the lost generation of women who never got answers and for the future generations of girls who deserve better medical knowledge and research.

This week's guest is Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund. Lotta is an associate professor in psychiatry at the Department of Women and Children's Health at Uppsala University and an affiliated researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. Her scientific work and research target the intersection of ADHD and comorbidity conditions (substance use disorders, personality disorders and mood disorders) as well as gender discrepancies and hormonal factors associated with neurodiversity and ADHD. She is the author of six popular science books on ADHD and addiction, and her book ADHD Girls to Women - Getting on the Radar has been translated into several European languages, English and Korean.

On this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Dr Lotta Skoglund and Kate spoke about:

• Dr Lotta's ADHD diagnosis
• ADHD purpose
• The Seven ADHD lifestyle factors we need to think about daily
• The Letterlife app initiative and research
• Feeling abandoned by healthcare professionals after an ADHD diagnosis
• Why healthcare professionals should be working together to help patients
• How an understanding of ADHD can change your health outcomes
• Building autonomy to feel more empowered with our ADHD
• Improving female-based medical research and ADHD
• The importance of talking about your experiences with hormones to help others
• Precision and patient-led medicine
• Connecting Hormones and Psychiatry to help more ADHD women
• Why fluctuating hormones and cycles need to be part of the bigger health picture
• Getting to know your unique hormone cycle traits
• How you can create a personalised health journal

You can learn more about Lotta's work via her website, www.borgskoglund.com and Letterlife.

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

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Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

On this short podcast episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom, I talk to Hester Grainger, a neurodiversity consultant, co-founder of Perfectly Autistic and Perfectly ADHD, a radio presenter and former TV presenter diagnosed with ADHD in her forties, about changing the way we look at neurodivergence in the workplace, raising awareness of what neurodiversity looks like in the office and showing up to help more people feel supported at work. We also discuss ways that employees can feel seen and heard at work and break down stigmas to help create more awareness and education.

Together with her husband Kelly, who is autistic and has ADHD, they run their neurodiversity consultancy, which works with organisations to raise awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity in the workplace and works with parents and education settings around autism and ADHD.

Hester is also mum to her two children, who are autistic and have ADHD.

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

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