Hello, hello, and welcome to F Them Fish: AuDHD for Grownups with your neurodivergent besties, Callie Elward-Barrett and Jayne Gurton. This is the podcast where we talk about neurodivergence in real adult life: work, relationships, burnout, overwhelm, identity, and all the weird little things that make you think, ‘surely it’s not just me.’ We’re honest, occasionally sweary, and very much not interested in pretending to be polished.

Grab a beverage, or body double some life admin with us in your ears and let’s get started!

Our topic for today is all about how celebrating tiny wins can get you further towards your bigger goals. And please! It's important to keep those bigger goals! Not to beat yourself with, or berate yourself for not achieving them immediately, but because without them, life feels so much smaller. Callie is feeling the restriction of having lower expectations and how that feels the opposite of liberating - it feels suffocating.

As neurodivergent people, we can smash through the limited expectations others may place upon us and do truly amazing things. We don't HAVE to, we GET to. Underestimate us. We dare you.

Timestamps

• 00:07 Intro
• 01:08 Callie's best birthday ever? Maybe?
• 01:54 The 'wants vs needs' family hack because everyone wants something all the time!
• 04:58 Feeling seen rather than perceived
• 09:30 The six-minute birthday dance video
• 14:59 Listeners, we want your input! Should episodes start with a quick topic signpost?
• 15:41 Rubbish fidgets and blue moon rituals
• 17:49 Emotional and sensory hangovers
• 19:04 Main topic begins: Celebrating tiny wins
• 20:14 What celebrating tiny wins means for neurodivergent people
• 21:42 Everyday wins, momentum and using small successes to get started
• 24:26 Tiny wins, gratitude practice and undoing years of negative feedback
• 27:12 Who decides what counts as a win?
• 28:47 Tiny wins are not small dreams: building toward bigger goals
• 32:20 Fibro, health progress and finding hope in tiny improvements
• 33:53 Homework - watch the Room to Move doco on Netflix and share your tiny wins with us!

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AuDHD for grownups: honest, funny conversations about work, relationships, sensory overload, identity, and the stuff nobody explains after diagnosis.

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AuDHD for grownups: honest, funny conversations about work, relationships, sensory overload, identity, and the stuff nobody explains after diagnosis.

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