Making decisions, finding clarity and leaning into our inner voice or intuition don't come easy for those of us with ADHD, who have historically leaned into our busy minds for all the answers.

I'm sure you'll agree that this is an exhausting way to live. I hope that this week's episode will help you move from your thinking brain to a place of calm and groundedness.

My guest is a good friend of mine, Diann Wingert, who appeared on the podcast a few years ago. I'm so happy to have her back, as her wisdom is just the best!

Diann's passion is helping ambitious outliers build profitable, sought-after businesses based on their brilliance. She has extensive experience working with neurodivergent individuals, especially those who are gifted, ADHD, or both. On the personal side, Diann loves dark fiction, strong coffee, and laughing out loud. She is also a Peloton enthusiast, a practicing Buddhist, and the host of the ADHD-ish podcast.

On today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Diann talk about:

• Using MIndfulness as a tool for ADHD
• Creating space for your intuition as an entrepreneur
• When therapy is the tool you need and when it's coaching
• Overstimulation of decision-making with ADHD
• Feeling stuck and needing clarity
• Procrastination and ADHD
• Creating space to tune in
• The truths around women and entrepreneurship
• The power of coaching
• Where you might be overcommitting and why
• Consciously disconnecting from Tech as a business owner

Try Kate's new Apple podcast subscription, The Toolkit, here

You can learn more about Diann on her website, www.diannwingertcoaching.com, where she has a free quiz to help you discover what is holding you back. Click here to access the quiz.

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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

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Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

Welcome back to a brand-new series of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast!

This week's guest is Joshua Fletcher (@anxietyjosh), a psychotherapist and author specialising in anxiety.

A former sufferer, Josh uses his platforms and books to provide psychoeducation about anxiety to those who need it. His latest book, And How Does That Make You Feel?, has sold over 12K copies since its release and is an audible bestseller.

On today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Josh speak about:

• Josh's disassociation, anxiety and panic disorder
• The power of psychoeducation to help people with anxiety, neurodiversity and mental health issues
• Understanding the role of cortisol and anxiety
• Practical and personalised ways to help our anxiety
• The anxiety/stress jug - talking about the overwhelming emotions of life
• Externalising our thoughts to help release anxiety
• Emotional conservatism, removing shame, asking for help and creating awareness of how our brain works
• Josh's autism diagnosis and how it shows up in daily life
• Josh's book, And How Does That Make You Feel?,

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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

I'm excited to announce some big news I've been waiting to share... Introducing my low-cost subscription option on the ADHD Women's Wellbeing podcast, The Toolkit!

For the price of a posh coffee once a month, you can access my entire back catalogue of workshops, webinars, and conversations, which have only been available to people who have been part of my membership, The Collective, and paid workshops. Not only this, but I'll be uploading BRAND-NEW workshop-style episodes, plus an INCREDIBLE Ask The Pysch feature coming soon with a world-renowned ADHD psychiatrist.

My aim with The Toolkit is to ensure that women who have waited or waiting for far too long to understand their neurodivergence can finally have access to the most up-to-date ADHD women's wellbeing information - even more than they're getting on the podcast - and honest, day-to-day practical guidance and support to help them thrive and live better with ADHD. On The Toolkit, we'll be discussing vital and life-changing ADHD topics such as:

• Burnout
• Hormones
• Perimenopause
• Supplements
• Lifestyle
• Movement
• Sleep
• Careers
• Energy
• The Nervous System
• Finding more calm and regulation
• Anxiety
• Parenting
• Spirituality
• Creativity

And so much more!

I'm genuinely excited and hope you guys come along for the journey!

So, if this sounds good to you and then maybe the cost of resources has prohibited you, I hope you'll consider joining my subscription. Every Sunday, I'll upload a new workshop to help you progress, thrive, and finally enjoy life with ADHD. As these episodes will have never been put on the podcast before, you will get direct access to the vault accumulated over the past four years since working with ADHD. You'll also get exclusive access to brand new content and Toolkit SUBSCIBER-only events and offers!

I will ensure that you receive all the best information I have in my back catalogue and that you feel you are progressing each time you listen to one of the workshops.

In today's episode, I also offer a short clip from Sunday's brand-new episode with Elizabeth Swan, a neurodiversity expert, coach and speaker. In this clip, we talk about perinatal health, perimenopause, HRT, and anxiety alongside ADHD.

Start your FREE trial to ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit subscriber podcast here.

On today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' we have Leanne Maskell. Leanne is an ADHD coach, author, and activist, having presented to the World Health Organization on improving global access to support for ADHD.

Previously working in mental health and disability law, Leanne set up ADHD Works to empower as many people as possible to learn how to make ADHD work for them through books, courses, talks, and coaching.

During today's conversation, Kate and Leanne talk about

• Advocating for adjustments in the workplace
• Masking ADHD in the workplace
• Talking about your ADHD diagnosis at work
• Reasonable diversity adjustments, training and policies in the workplace
• Corporate neurodiversity
• Celebrating achievements alongside RSD
• Knowing our rights within the workplace
• Burnout and our ADHD brains
• Advocacy and our sense of social justice

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

Welcome to a recap 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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

Neuroscience explains so much about our ADHD brain and the many traits, tendencies, and behaviours that come along for the ride. The more we understand our beautiful yet complex neurobiology, the more empowered we are to make sustainable and manageable changes to better enhance our lives.

So, I'm delighted to welcome this week's guest, Nicole Vignola, a neuroscientist, author, consultant, and brain performance coach, to the podcast.

Nicole's first book, Rewire: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life is available now.

On today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Nicola speak about:

• The science behind meditation
• The brain's negativity bias
• The function of the brain's 'DMN' AND 'TPN'
• How self-interruptions affect our daily life
• The power of meditation for emotional regulation
• Nicole's tips for feeling more calm and positive
• Feeling more self-aligned
• The damaging effects of your phone and social media
• Ways to be more mindful of your phone usage
• Understanding dopamine better
• The life-changing benefits of a healthier sleep routine
• How hydrating first thing can be essential for the ADHD brain
• How visualising works in the brain and how it can improve our habits
• Aphantasia and learning how to visualise

You can find out more about Nicole via her website, www.nicolesneuroscience.com.

My other guest on today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing episode is Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund. 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 menstrual cycles, 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.

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. 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:

• 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.

This week’s ADHD Women's Wellbeing 'Wisdom' guest is Kelly Rompel.

Kelly is a pharmacist, author, and Functional Medicine and Epigenetic Consultant. She is the author of “Don’t Tell Me To Relax”, host of the Rebel Whitecoat Podcast, and founder of Wildroots Wellness.

Kelly's holistic approach combines her knowledge of pharmacy and science with her love for functional medicine, epigenetics, and energy healing.

During this week's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom episode, Kate and Kelly speak about:

• How epigenetics can play into your ADHD
• Genetic testing and ADHD
• Foods and supplements you can incorporate to manage ADHD
• Supplements to help ADHD and Anxiety
• Blood sugar level management
• Helping our anxiety through diet change and lifestyle
• Increasing GABA and serotonin levels
• The BEST supplements for ADHD
• Taking a holistic and well-rounded approach to your health
• How Kelly came to learn about epigenetics

Look at some of Kate's ADHD 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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.

Dopamine sensitivity and sugar addiction are familiar traits of ADHD. Perhaps using sugar to self-medicate, re-energise, or dopamine-seek may be a pattern you relate to?

If so, you'll want to listen to this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing, with guest Dr. Nicole Avena, a research neuroscientist and nutrition, diet, and addiction expert. Her research focuses on nutrition during early life and pregnancy and women’s health. She has done groundbreaking work developing models to characterize food addiction and the dangers of excess sugar intake.

Dr Avena's latest book, Sugarless, covers the latest science on sugar addiction and how to overcome it. On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Dr Avena and Kate talk about:

• The link between sugar addiction and dopamine-seeking brains
• The effects of dopamine released by sugar consumption on the brain
• How sugar affects your body and your health
• Parenting and teaching our kids nutritional choices and consuming processed sugar
• Having a susceptible dopamine system
• Our busy society doesn't lend itself to healthy eating

You hear me talking about an integrative and more holistic healthcare approach a lot on the Podcast, so I'm delighted to welcome Dr Gemma Newman (The Plant Power Doctor), a best-selling author, podcast host, and GP who embraces this approach with her patients.

Although Gemma is a medical GP, she's also interested in holistic health, plant-based nutrition, and lifestyle medicine.

Gemma's second book, Get Well, Stay Well: The Six Healing Health Habits Everyone Should Know , combines medicine, psychology, and nutrition. It provides simple, actionable tips and a unique wellness template to help you transform your life.

On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Gemma and Kate speak about:

• The role of functional medicine and ADHD
• How to talk to your GP regarding an ADHD diagnosis
• Self-compassion as a neurodivergent person
• Gemma's journey to spiritual practice, holistic and functional health
• Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping and the many benefits for ADHD
• How does our emotional and spiritual wellbeing impact our physical health

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 what we're proud of, which lift us up. As parents, we can create more internal strength and greatness—life can be easier than we believe.

This week’s ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom 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 recap 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.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

Follow Kate on Instagram here.

Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here.