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1. We meet health and nutrition coach Lauren Carpenter, and she shares how her own childhood health issues—we discuss how powerful it is to make changes during adulthood that will also impact our own children and ripple outward. 
2. Food is medicine: We discuss the inextricable link between our physical health and our mental and emotional health, and the role food can play in how we feel. 
3. Lauren talks us through the gut-brain connection, and we discuss the role food plays in being the literal fuel that keeps us together when we are falling apart. 
4. As women with ADHD, our neurotransmitter regulation is challenging, and Lauren shares with us how exercise can calm hyperactivity, improve focus, assist with emotional regulation, and improve sleep.
5. Strength training is medicine for the brain, and can reduce cortisol, helps regulate blood sugar, and regulates hormones. The best part? Even a small amount can help. 
6. Lauren gives us tips to make fitness feel more doable: it doesn't need to be the intense cardio that we grew up with, a little can go a long way, and try it for 5 minutes, and if you don't like it, you can stop (most of the time, we'll choose to keep going!). 
7. Processed food, protein, fasting, liquid breakfast, caffeine, and blood sugar: Lauren tell us everything we need to know. Spoiler alert: protein is our best friend for building muscle, which helps our brain. 
8. Overwhelmed? Lauren gives us a basic Crash Course so you know where to begin and shares easy, do-able, middle ground habits to help us feel better. 

About Lauren:
Lauren is a mother of 3 + health and wellness coach, and an extremely passionate sports nutrition specialist. Her mission? To empower women to become the CEO of their own health.

With expertise in whole-food focused nutrition, progressive overload strength training, and mindset development, she guides her clients through personalized programs to teach them how to fuel themselves properly so they can build muscle, increase their energy and feel good in their body.

When she's not coaching, you can find her on adventures with her kids, traveling and exploring the Colorado mountains, or trying new recipes in her kitchen.

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Join Stacey in this mini solo episode as she reveals all the ways she shrinks herself as a people-pleasing, ADHD/RSD woman:

• With her husband 
• In asking questions
• With her voice, and any noise she makes (anybody else familiar with accidental breath-holding?)
• With compliments
• With her kids

She shares these, and then asks you to share them with yourself. If we can start identifying the ways in which we shrink, we can become more self-aware of them, and make steps to stop the cycle.

What is your experience with shrinking?
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1. We welcome Dr. Christine Li, Procrastination Coach, back to the Mother Plus Podcast to tackle the topic of clutter and its impact on the ADHD woman. 
2. It's always about much than the actual clutter—Dr. Li reminds us that we are all different and it's about accepting ourselves without judgment or shame and figuring out what helps us as individuals find more ease and productivity. 
3. We want our home—and our "energy home"—to feel more hospitable for ourselves. Clutter reminds us of the things that make us feel bad about ourselves, which is why we often procrastinate dealing with it—which often backfires!
4. Stace and Steph share their morning and evening rituals with Dr. Li and get her input on how to incorporate decluttering routines into daily rituals. 
5. Dr. Li emphasizes the impact of changing our mindset and the stories we tell ourselves—it requires some flexibility and experimentation. "Less convincing and more believing." 
6. Slow, steady progress is key. Envision your goals, track your progress, and celebrate the small steps. 
7. How to stop the cycle: consider the engineering of your home and reimagine the functionality of each space, and think about how you may be replenishing the clutter by not limiting your consumption. 
8. The power of a "challenge": when we break the mindset wall, join in community, and take on clutter—which could bring a sense of shame or dread—and make it fun, we're going to be more successful. Dr. Li shares her free 5-day challenge that beings Monday, 9/16. 

Join the Re-Energize Your Home 5-Day Challenge, hosted by psychologist and Procrastination Coach, Dr. Christine Li, from September 16-22. This challenge will be your solution to finally gaining control over your space and reclaiming your energy.

What You’ll Get from This FREE Challenge:

• Daily Inspiration & Guidance: Engage with Dr. Christine Li in a private Facebook group and on Zoom, where she will walk you through the steps to declutter your home and mind.
• Powerful Strategies: Learn proven techniques to release the physical clutter that’s been a thorn in your side, and open up space for more energy, confidence, and clarity.
• Supportive Community: Connect with like-minded individuals who are on the same journey to a more organized and fulfilling life.

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Welcome to Season 4 of the Mother Plus Podcast! We are BEYOND excited to kick off this new phase of our show and our motherhoods. ADHD, meds, overwhelm, kid's diagnosis, and the rituals that keep us sane -- we have SO much to talk about. 

Here's a quick recap of episode 121:

• Stace and Steph recap the summer with a highlight (and lowlight) reel, ADHD updates, and our feelings on the switch from summer to fall. 
• We chronicle the origin of the podcast and how it has evolved since 2021, including a preview of what this season's episodes will look like. 
• Stace shares how she stayed sane with self-care practices during a summer with her kids and without ADHD meds; a return to her morning ritual was a lifesaver. 
• Steph talks about how her daughters' summer ADHD diagnoses impacted her emotionally and how it's served as a brand new lens for the household and a measurement of when to try harder and when to let go of a low priority task. 
• Rituals to bookend your day: While Stace depends on her grounding morning rituals, Steph looks forward to her evening practice of unwinding, journaling, and planning to keep her calm and grounded. 
• We talk about the fact that taking care of yourself with grounding rituals is NON-NEGOTIABLE. When you are an overwhelmed ADHD mom, keeping yourself grounded is essential, not optional. 
• We share the new direction of our 4th season—while we still remain our imperfect Stace and Steph selves, we want to help give you some tools and strategies to feel better in your busy lives and ADHD brains. 
• As we remember and honor the different versions of our "podcast selves," we are excited to move from last season's "season of discovery" into a new season where we try our hardest to help you understand and protect yourself and thrive in a world that maybe wasn't designed for you, and most importantly, help you remember who you are!

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Today, Stacey brings you a solo episode to talk to you about what summer break has looked like for this people-pleasing ADHD mom. 

She talks about how you can learn from her mistakes, and save yourself from burnout, if you, too, struggle with making everybody around your happy all the time - but especially your children. 

Recap:

• What happens when people pleasers become moms?
• We all know the importance of putting up boundaries and teaching your kids to “figure it out” for themselves
• But when you're a people-pleaser you can know this, but still continue to give everything to your children (and leave nothing for yourself)
• RSD can cause people to overreact to perceive rejection or criticism and people with RSD anticipate the rejection. Every person they meet is somebody new to figure out and then to make happy. 
• Because those of us with RSD struggle so much with boundaries, it can quickly lead to burnout
• Current parenting philosophies teach us to be “gentle” with our children, but people-pleasers can take this too far 
• A sample day of a mom who is constantly trying to please her kids (a cautionary tale)
• The difference between Mom and Dad when setting boundaries with their kids
• Let's revisit the age-old question: Should I play with my kids? (Check out one of our most popular episodes where we so boldly claimed "We Don't Like Playing With Our Kids.")

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About Stacey Hutson:
Former Chicago-girl, Stacey Hutson, now attempts to live the Colorado life in Golden with her husband and two still slightly helpless daughters, ages 4 and 6. By now she thought she’d be totally immersed in motherhood, happily sitting on the floor “doing voices,” trying desperately to hold on to every precious moment. But instead, she found herself on that same floor reminiscing about the days when she was a writer, an ad girl, a paleo food blogger, and a karaoke superstar. 

Her nervous system was overwhelmed, her house was a disaster, and she couldn’t understand why she was so nostalgic for her fun, spontaneous pre-mom life. That’s why she created the Mother Plus Podcast with Stephanie Sprenger to give a voice to the too much moms who feel like they are failing at motherhood, and don’t want to fail anymore. 

Her late ADHD Diagnosis has opened her eyes to the fact that understanding her brain is the key to finally enjoying her motherhood. 

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1. Steph shares how her life has changed since her ADHD diagnosis, both at work and at home. 
2. First, a med update: "I don't feel the meds when I take them, but I feel it when I don't." How finding the right formula has been the key to achieving balance, good sleep, and improved focus. 
3. Aside from meds, Steph talks about the element of self-awareness and understanding that has helped with executive functioning, organization, negative beliefs, and procrastination when managing the household as a newly single mom. 
4. ADHD can be a superpower: Steph shares how understanding her neurodivergence has been the key to reinventing and supercharging her career. 
5. Never underestimate the power of passion when it comes to success. Remember, the ADHD brain is wired for interest, not importance. 
6. Self-acceptance and allowing ourselves to choose a path that fits for us can get us unstuck and unlock our professional potential. 
7. Steph shares what it felt like to witness her daughter's recent ADHD diagnosis and how healing it was for her as an adult who went undiagnosed for decades. 
8. ADHD is NOT an excuse; it is a map. Don't forget that you are always allowed to change your course, and understanding yourself provides a clearer path. 

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Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, “What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life and The ADHD solution card deck” specializes in working with children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues. 

She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD and neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners. Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their weekly YouTube Live sessions. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, ADDitude Magazine and more.

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1. In our conversation with Dr. Sharon Saline, she talks about the origin of the sense of failure so many people with ADHD experience, and how it can be traced back to harmful messaging we've endured since childhood about how we are defective in some way or not okay. 
2. Dr. Sharon challenges us to change our inner dialogue and talk to ourselves with compassion, the way we would a close friend or a child in need.
3. Dr. Sharon breaks down what emotional dysregulation looks like and how it shows up for women with ADHD in terms of overwhelm, time management challenges, working memory, and self-evaluation, aka, the way we perceive and speak to ourselves. 
4. People with ADHD tend to have "big feelings." Dr. Sharon explains why people with poor working memory also struggle with emotional control. 
5. Dr. Sharon guides us through the biology of ADHD and how brain structure as well as neurotransmitter function both play a role in emotional regulation. 
6. Dr. Sharon shares with us the mind-blowing concept of the "Takeback of the Day." She walks us through the protocol and "rules" and how transformative it can be in relationship repair. 
7. We talk about what it looks like when an ADHD mom "loses it," how terrible it feels, what's often at the root of it, and how to make it right. Dr. Sharon walks us through "do-overs" and repair when children are involved. 
8. In order to avoid the "Boy who cried wolf" cycle of damage and repair, Dr. Sharon encourages us to notice the signals that we are about to lose it so we can course correct before we go over the edge—she shares her STAR method which can be revolutionary for stopping the cycle of losing it. 

Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, “What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life and The ADHD solution card deck” specializes in working with children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues. 

She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD and neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners. Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their weekly YouTube Live sessions. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, ADDitude Magazine and more.

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Catastrophizing: An irrationally negative forecast of future events.

This is a common ADHD trait. When your thoughts are hyperactive, it's hard not to go down rabbit holes. And some of them can be pretty scary and depressing.

Today, Stacey shares her personal experience with catastrophizing, and  the two things she's doing to tame her negative thoughts of the future.

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Come hang out with us! We're weird in all the best ways. 

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1. In this Stace and Steph episode, we talk about what summer looks like for the ADHD Mom: The Good, The Bad, and the very, very Ugly. 
2. Transitions are tough for women with ADHD, and the summer transition can be especially jarring. 
3. Summer can be such a struggle to balance "work" and "fun" and the result can feel very overwhelming. 
4. Who is in charge here?? The lack of structure and routine and the variability of summer days is stressful for ADHD women who struggle with time management, executive functioning, and working memory. 
5. Navigating our complicated relationships with our to-do lists becomes a special kind of hell in the summer. 
6. We remind ourselves of Dr. Li's advice to change our "dread language" around the tasks we have created "incompetence narratives" around, telling ourselves stories and creating drama rather than reminding ourselves that the task is absolutely do-able, isn't as bad as we think, and we have the skills we need. 
7. Stace shares her moments of joy and magic and Steph celebrates her 1980s summer victory and how she's teaching her kids to have a "good joy ethic."
8. We lament the lack of village and 1980s/90s mentality where we essentially raise our free-range kids together and brainstorm ways we can implement a little of that magic. 

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