• 49 minutes 36 seconds
    Creating 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:

    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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    30 September 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 6 seconds
    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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    28 September 2026, 11:32 am
  • 50 minutes 25 seconds
    ADHD, Gut Health and Your Nervous System: A Compassionate Guide with Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas

    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, 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. If you've ever felt shame about what you eat, how you forget to eat, or why your safe foods feel so necessary, this episode is going to be a genuine relief.

    On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm delighted to welcome back Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas, clinical neuroscientist, applied microbiologist, nutrition researcher, Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University and Senior Lecturer at the University of West London.

    Miguel has just published his brilliant new book, ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health, published by Jessica Kingsley/Hachette. His research has appeared in leading journals including the BMJ and BMC Psychiatry, and his work is known for translating complex science into something genuinely human and accessible.

    This is one of those conversations that covers a huge amount of ground while never once feeling overwhelming. We talk about why the ADHD brain is wired for resilience and what that actually costs us, why the gut-brain connection matters so much for neurodivergent people, how to approach nutrition with compassion rather than perfectionism, and why your safe foods are not something to be ashamed of. We also get into the language of science, why terms like comorbidity matter, and how researchers like Miguel are slowly shifting the field towards a more neuroaffirmative approach.

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    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why compassion and kindness are at the heart of Miguel's approach to ADHD, nutrition and the nervous system
    • How the ADHD nervous system forms in high alert, and what that means for resilience and hypervigilance
    • Why ADHD is far more than a dopamine deficiency, and how hormones, gut bacteria and the nervous system are all part of the picture
    • The gut-brain axis and why looking after your gut has a direct impact on your ADHD brain
    • Why the language of science still creates problems, including terms like comorbidity and healthy cohort, and how researchers are starting to push back
    • How to read ADHD Body and Mind in whichever way works for your brain, whether that's cover to cover or jumping straight to chapter nine
    • Why understanding the why behind your ADHD behaviours is the keystone to change, even when it doesn't fix things overnight
    • Miguel's approach to nutrition: keep your safe foods, add rather than subtract, and never shame what nourishes you
    • Why safe foods are doing an important job for your nervous system, and why being pushed out of your comfort zone too quickly never lasts
    • The circle approach to expanding your diet gently, starting from your anchors and building outward
    • Why a hot bath is an act of self-compassion backed by neuroscience, and why you don't need to get into cold water to support your nervous system
    • The self-kindness toolkit at the end of the book and what it covers

    Chapters:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas back to the podcast
    • 02:00 - What's at the heart of ADHD Body and Mind, and why compassion comes first
    • 05:00 - Why the ADHD nervous system is wired for hypervigilance and resilience
    • 08:00 - ADHD as more than dopamine: hormones, gut bacteria and the full picture
    • 11:00 - The neuroaffirmative lens in academic research and why language matters
    • 15:00 - How the gut-brain axis connects to ADHD and emotional regulation
    • 19:00 - The awareness and repetition model: why understanding the why is the keystone
    • 23:00 - Nutrition without perfectionism: how to approach food with kindness
    • 27:00 - Safe foods, anchors and adding rather than subtracting
    • 32:00 - The circle approach: expanding your diet gently from the inside out
    • 37:00 - The ADHD cookery school: creativity, condiments and cooking without recipes
    • 42:00 - Hot baths, cold water and why softness is sometimes the braver choice
    • 46:00 - The self-kindness toolkit and what the book offers neurodivergent readers and clinicians

    Links and Resources:

    Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit 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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    23 September 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 54 seconds
    Your ADHD Nervous System Explained

    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, 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. If you've ever wondered why some days feel manageable and others feel completely impossible, even when nothing has obviously changed, your nervous system is trying to tell you something.

    Welcome to this week's More Yourself Monday episode. Today I'm sharing a clip from one of my workshops on the nervous system, polyvagal theory and how understanding both can genuinely change the way you move through your days with ADHD.

    This is not a clinical lecture. This is a simple, accessible explanation of why your nervous system behaves the way it does, what the polyvagal ladder actually means in real life, and how you can start to work with your nervous system rather than against it. I also introduce the concept of glimmers, those small micro moments of safety and joy that can shift your entire day when you learn to notice and actively seek them out.

    The full workshop is available on my website, and the link is below.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • What it means to feel grounded, connected and safe in your nervous system, and why so many of us rarely get there
    • A simple explanation of polyvagal theory and why it matters so much for neurodivergent people
    • The three states of the polyvagal ladder: ventral vagal, sympathetic and dorsal vagal, and what each one feels like from the inside
    • Why the ADHD brain so often operates in fight or flight mode, and what that costs us over time
    • What the dorsal vagal shutdown state feels like, and why it shows up as fatigue, numbness and withdrawal
    • The window of tolerance: what it is, what opens and closes it, and why ADHD narrows it
    • The difference between hyper arousal and hypo arousal, and why each needs a different response
    • What glimmers are and why they matter as much as knowing your triggers
    • How to identify your own personal glimmers and actively harness them across the day
    • Why regulating your own nervous system is not selfish but has a ripple effect on everyone around you
    • The role of co-regulation and why our nervous system state affects the people we live and work with

    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 the full nervous system and polyvagal theory workshop series here with a 10% discount for Podcast listeners

    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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    20 September 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 52 minutes 3 seconds
    Is the ADHD Brain an Intuitive Brain?

    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, 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.

    Content note: This episode contains references to suicide and family bereavement. If you are struggling, please reach out to a trusted support resource.

    In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. You can also check out the Campaign Against Living Miserably here

    What if the traits you've spent a lifetime apologising for are actually the source of your greatest ability?

    On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Day, New York Times bestselling author, teacher and intuitive consultant who has spent four decades working with individuals and some of the world's largest companies to help them identify and achieve their goals.

    Laura's new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, is the book she describes as an ADHD manual — a practical, evidence-informed framework for building the scaffolding that helps neurodivergent brains thrive. With two New York Times bestsellers to her name and a 40-year teaching community, Laura is also someone who has lived with ADHD her entire life, and this conversation is one of the most honest, warm and genuinely surprising I have had on the podcast.

    We talk about Laura's childhood in a household where neurodivergence was everywhere but unnamed, why girls of her generation were never allowed to act out and what that suppression cost them, how she built a career advising billion-dollar companies using her intuitive mind, and why the ADHD brain is uniquely suited to intuition, just not always in the way we expect.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Laura's diagnosis at 10 or 11, and why girls of her generation were never treated
    • Growing up in a household where neurodivergence showed up in multiple family members, often with devastating consequences
    • How Laura used survival, focus and necessity as her prosthetic scaffolding before she understood her own neurology
    • Why the ADHD brain is the intuitive brain, and how to make that work for you rather than against you
    • Why intuition is not something you tap into but something that is always downloading, and how to structure it usefully
    • The difference between the voice of fear and the voice of intuition, and why documentation matters more than belief
    • How Laura advises billion-dollar companies using intuitive methods, and why business and science do what works regardless of belief
    • Why Laura says you are your own worst intuitive, and why community-based intuitive practice is so powerful
    • The shame and blame pages: a research-backed tool for releasing what no longer serves you
    • Why doing just the next thing is one of the most powerful strategies for ADHD brains
    • How Laura built scaffolding for her household without knowing it was for neurodivergence
    • Why vulnerability is not a weakness but the source of extraordinary ability
    • The Prism: what it offers neurodivergent people and why Laura considers it her ADHD manual

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Laura Day
    • 02:00 - Laura's diagnosis at 10 or 11 and why girls weren't treated in her generation
    • 05:00 - Growing up with neurodivergence all around her, and what it cost her family
    • 08:00 - How she used her role as oldest child to create focus and structure
    • 10:00 - Spatial difficulties, irritability and the compensations she built over decades
    • 13:00 - Why the ADHD brain is the intuitive brain
    • 16:00 - How intuition actually works and why it is always downloading
    • 20:00 - Documenting intuition and building a feedback loop with the world
    • 23:00 - How she works with billion-dollar companies and why they don't need to believe in it
    • 27:00 - Social dynamics, masking and forgetting to say hello
    • 31:00 - Emotional regulation, overstimulation and learning to step away rather than snap
    • 35:00 - Generational patterns, self-awareness and raising neurodivergent children
    • 40:00 - Just do the next thing: why this is the most powerful ADHD strategy
    • 44:00 - The shame and blame pages and the research behind letting go
    • 47:00 - The Prism: seven steps, and why Laura considers it her ADHD manual
    • 50:00 - How to find Laura and join her teaching community

    Links and Resources:

    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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    17 September 2026, 6:19 pm
  • 48 minutes 47 seconds
    Why Doesn’t My GP Understand ADHD & What’s Really Happening in the 10-Minute Appointment

    If you've ever left a GP appointment feeling dismissed, confused or like you had to fight to be taken seriously, this episode will help you understand why, and what you can actually do about it.

    On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm joined by Dr Victoria Galvis, a GP based in Greater Manchester with over 20 years of lived experience of neurodivergence and a fierce passion for changing how the healthcare system supports neurodivergent people.

    Victoria qualified as a doctor in Colombia and has been practising in the UK since 2010, working across both hospital medicine and primary care. Alongside Dr Safiya Virji, GP and Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London, she has written Neurodivergence in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for UK Healthcare Professionals, a comprehensive, research-backed resource designed to educate clinicians and support patients in navigating the system more effectively.

    In this episode, Victoria explains the structural reasons why GPs often don't know enough about ADHD and neurodivergence, and it is not as simple as them not caring. She talks about the discrimination she faced as a neurodivergent doctor, why the 10-minute consultation is both a challenge and something patients can learn to work with, and how the book came about from 20 years of clinical experience and a determination to change things for her son, her patients and the next generation of healthcare professionals.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why GPs receive less than two hours of ADHD training and have zero budget to update their knowledge
    • How media narratives and ableist assumptions about ADHD have shaped clinical attitudes
    • Victoria's own experience of disability discrimination as a neurodivergent doctor, and why she kept going
    • Why ADHD and autism could not even be co-diagnosed until 2013, and what that means for the doctors currently practising
    • How the 10-minute GP consultation works, and practical ways to make the most of it
    • Why bringing a list to a GP appointment is genuinely helpful, not annoying
    • How to ask for the right GP in your practice for your specific needs
    • When and how to share your own research with your doctor, and how most GPs actually receive it
    • Why executive dysfunction affects how patients experience healthcare at every stage
    • The importance of bringing someone with you, recording the appointment or using other memory tools
    • Why most mental health presentations in primary care have a deep-rooted neurodivergent component
    • Kate and Victoria's grassroots idea for getting this book into every GP surgery

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Victoria Galvis
    • 02:00 - Victoria's ADHD diagnosis at 19 and her early career in the UK
    • 05:00 - The discrimination she faced as a neurodivergent doctor and why she fought back
    • 09:00 - Why GPs don't know more about ADHD, and why it is not their fault
    • 13:00 - Zero training budget, no CPD funding and what that means in practice
    • 16:00 - Why most mental health presentations have a neurodivergent component
    • 19:00 - How the 10-minute consultation works from the doctor's side
    • 23:00 - Practical tips for making the most of your GP appointment
    • 28:00 - How to share your own research with your GP and what to expect
    • 32:00 - When to ask for a follow-up, and why you should book with the right person
    • 36:00 - How the book came about, and what it covers
    • 40:00 - Kate and Victoria's grassroots idea: getting the book into every GP surgery
    • 43:00 - How to get the book and where to find Victoria

    Links and Resources:

    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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    9 September 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 56 seconds
    Routines vs Rituals: A Gentler Approach to Structure with ADHD

    Looking for further guidance and support on⁠⁠⁠ ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast here⁠⁠⁠. Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.

    September has always felt more like a new start than January. And if you're ready to think differently about how you structure your days, this episode is a good place to begin.

    On this week's More Yourself Monday episode, I'm sharing a clip from one of my workshops on ADHD routines and structures, because this time of year tends to bring up that familiar urge to get organised and finally get on top of things.

    But this isn't about neurotypical productivity systems or trying to force your ADHD brain into a shape it was never meant to hold. This is about understanding your own energy, working with your nervous system rather than against it, and finding a rhythm that actually feels sustainable for you.

    In this clip I introduce my four-pillar framework for building a personalised daily flow, talk about the difference between rituals and routines and why that distinction matters, and explore why so many of us get stuck in boom-and-bust cycles, even when we genuinely want things to be different.

    The full workshop is available on my website with a discount code below.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why ADHD brains seek both structure and stimulation, and how that tension creates the boom and bust cycle
    • How dopamine, executive function, working memory, hormones and emotional regulation all affect our ability to build and maintain routines
    • Why neurotypical systems can feel suffocating and punishing for ADHD brains
    • The difference between rituals and routines, and why rituals often feel softer, more grounding and more sustainable
    • How to visualise the version of you that's working in flow, and what that tells you about what you actually need
    • What it means to be your own energy detective and do a daily or weekly audit of what fills and depletes you
    • Why knowing your why is one of the most powerful grounding tools you have
    • Kate's four-pillar framework: energy awareness, time perception, body-based cues and returning to your values
    • Why interoception, noticing hunger, thirst, tiredness and sensory input, matters more than most productivity advice acknowledges

    Links and Resources:

    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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    6 September 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 44 minutes 54 seconds
    Why You Keep Snapping at the People You Love with Anna Mathur

    The sharp words, the slammed drawer, the guilt that follows. If you've ever wondered how you became someone who snaps at the people you love most, this conversation is going to feel very familiar.

    On this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm welcoming back psychotherapist and bestselling author Anna Mathur for a conversation that is honest, warm and full of the kind of insight you don't often get permission to sit with.

    Anna is the author of multiple bestselling books and the host of The Therapy Edit podcast, which has reached over four million downloads. She's passionate about taking therapy beyond the consulting room and into the everyday moments where we actually need it most. Her new book, How to Stop Snapping at the People You Love (As Well As the Ones You Don't): A Compassionate Guide to Rage, Regulation and Repair, is out now, and we get into a lot of it here.

    Anna and I talk about why snapping isn't a character flaw but a signal, what it's really communicating when everything feels like too much, and how so much of it connects to what we hold inside as women, as ADHD women, as people who were never really taught that anger was allowed. We also talk about hormones, perimenopause, sensory overwhelm, the cheese incident, WhatsApp groups, and why buying calm every day is not a luxury but a necessity.

    Do also go back and listen to our previous conversation, which we'll link in the show notes, where we talked about burnout, exhaustion and holding it all together.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Why snapping and irritability are signals of overwhelm rather than signs of being a bad person
    • How the good girl conditioning many of us grew up with can turn unexpressed anger inward
    • Why women with ADHD and neurodivergent women often have a more activated nervous system as a baseline
    • The connection between perimenopause, hormonal shifts and rising irritability and sensory sensitivity
    • Why masking all day means the dysregulation has to go somewhere, often home
      How circumstantial overwhelm and internal stress create a perfect storm
    • The unspoken narratives and generational conditioning that keep us holding what isn't ours to hold
    • Why anger is not the enemy, and what happens when we finally listen to it
    • The difference between rage and snapping, and why shame makes it harder to process either
    • Practical ways to create circuit breakers across the day rather than relying on one big reset
    • Why co-regulation starts with us, and how to buy calm when you have nothing left
    • Anna's untangling framework from the book, and how to start befriending the anger rather than suppressing it
    • The importance of finding people and spaces where you can fully unmask

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introducing Anna Mathur back to the podcast
    • 02:00 - What led Anna to write the book and why snapping shocked her so much
    • 05:00 - The pressure cooker: why it all has to come out somewhere
    • 08:00 - Viewing snapping through a neuro-affirming and hormonal lens
    • 11:00 - How perimenopause amplified sensory sensitivity for Kate and Anna
    • 14:00 - Circumstantial versus internal stress and why both matter
    • 17:00 - The unspoken truths, suppressed emotions and generational conditioning
    • 20:00 - The things we're not saying and how to start listening to that inner voice
    • 24:00 - Rewiring the cognitive narrative that keeps us agreeable at our own expense
    • 27:00 - Late diagnosis, masking and the dysregulation that comes home with us
    • 30:00 - Recognising your personal warning signs before the Richter scale tips
    • 34:00 - The WhatsApp group tipping point and what it's really about
    • 38:00 - How to buy calm: rest, joy, unmasking and snacking on regulation
    • 42:00 - Why co-regulation with our children starts with resourcing ourselves
    • 45:00 - Anna's untangling framework: befriending anger and finding grace in the mess

    Links and Resources:

    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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    3 September 2026, 6:46 am
  • 23 minutes 12 seconds
    What is RSD Alongside ADHD?

    Want to join our first-ever live podcast and Q&A this week? More info here

    Have you always been more sensitive than most people you know to rejection, criticism or the feeling that you've fallen short? If that question just landed somewhere deep, this episode is for you.

    Today I'm sharing a clip from one of my most popular workshops, "What Is RSD?," as a way of bringing this topic back into focus, because rejection sensitive dysphoria is one of those things that so many of us have felt our entire lives without ever having the language for it.

    In this clip, I talk about what Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria actually is, how Dr William Dodson first articulated it, how it shows up physically and emotionally, and why understanding it as a neurological trait rather than a personality flaw changes everything. I also share some practical ways to begin working with RSD rather than against it, including how EFT tapping can help calm the nervous system response in the moment and over time.

    The full RSD workshop is available on my website with 10% off ⁠here⁠

    In this episode, we cover:

    • What rejection sensitive dysphoria is and how it was first identified and named
    • Why RSD shows up as part of the emotional dysregulation profile of ADHD
    • What RSD can feel like physically, not just emotionally, and why that matters
    • How RSD shows up across childhood, relationships, work, parenting and social life
    • Why RSD episodes can feel all-consuming and then end surprisingly quickly
    • How past social trauma can resurface and amplify RSD triggers later in life
    • Why keeping your guard up to avoid RSD can become its own form of exhaustion
    • The self-regulation tools that can help including EFT, DBT, somatic work and breathwork
    • How lifestyle foundations like sleep, movement and nutrition build resilience against RSD
    • Why EFT tapping helps calm the amygdala and reduce cortisol in the moment
    • A simple introduction to tapping and how to use it before, during or after an RSD episode

    lookingAre you Looking for further support on ADHD Women's Wellbeing⁠⁠⁠⁠? Check out my workshop library ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ or search for any topic on the ⁠⁠⁠Podcast ⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to today's More Yourself episode
    • 01:30 - Why RSD is such an important part of understanding ADHD
    • 04:00 - The workshop clip begins: Dr William Dodson's defining question
    • 05:30 - What RSD is and how it shows up emotionally and physically
    • 08:00 - The clear trigger, the mood shift and why episodes can end as suddenly as they start
    • 10:00 - How past social trauma can keep RSD patterns alive
    • 12:00 - How RSD impacts self-esteem, relationships, parenting and career
    • 14:00 - What we can do: self-regulation tools, EFT, DBT and somatic approaches
    • 16:00 - Why brain and gut health matter for RSD resilience
    • 18:00 - Self-talk, journaling and the self-compassion that only you can give yourself
    • 20:00 - EFT tapping explained: the meridian points, cortisol reduction and the amygdala
    • 22:00 - How tapping creates perspective and shifts the threat response
    • 24:00 - Using tapping before a difficult situation to stay regulated

    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 the full What Is RSD? workshop with 10% off here

    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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    30 August 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 48 minutes 45 seconds
    Hormones Are the Missing Piece of the Female ADHD Puzzle

    Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    So many of us were told for years that our painful periods, flooding cycles, monthly mood crashes and hormonal struggles were just something to push through. This compilation episode is about what's actually been going on hormonally all along.

    This week's episode is all about the overlap between ADHD, hormones and women's health — a connection Kate has been talking about since the very beginning of the podcast, and one that is still not being taken seriously enough in clinical practice.

    We hear from three conversations. Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and specialist in ADHD and hormonal health, on the link between estrogen and heart health, why perimenopause doesn't follow a straight line, and why so many neurodivergent women are still being told they're too young or not symptomatic enough to be taken seriously.

    Dr Liz Murray, doctor, activist and author of Not Just Painful Periods, on her own decade-long road to an endometriosis diagnosis, what coming off the pill without the right information can do, and what she's doing through her charity to change the way the next generation of doctors are trained.

    And Laura Federico and Morgan Miller, authors of The Cycle Book, on why cycle tracking is so much more than period data, how it can help us understand RSD, mood, energy and focus across the month, and why reconnecting with our bodies might be one of the most compassionate things we can do for ourselves.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • The link between estrogen, heart health and menopause, and why this is the number one cause of death in post-menopausal women
    • Why perimenopause doesn't follow a straight line, and why symptoms can start long before periods become irregular
    • Why neurodivergent women are more likely to experience PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS and severe PMS
    • How losing estrogen suddenly can significantly raise cardiovascular risk, and why this is so often dismissed
    • Dr Liz Murray's own endometriosis story, and why being a doctor didn't protect her from a delayed diagnosis
    • What can happen when women come off the pill without understanding what it may have been masking
    • Why the conversation GPs need to have with women about the pill is still not happening
    • What women need to know about the red flag symptoms that warrant further investigation
    • The overlap between ADHD, hypermobility, connective tissue issues and hormonal conditions
    • Why cycle tracking is far more than knowing when your period is due
    • How tracking can help you notice patterns like RSD intensifying in the second half of your cycle
    • Why reconnecting to your body, even briefly each day, is a genuinely life-changing act

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to this week's compilation
    • 03:00 - Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund: estrogen, heart health and what women need to know
    • 06:00 - Why cardiovascular risk rises after menopause, and what that means for ADHD women
    • 08:00 - The lifestyle factors that compound risk for neurodivergent women
    • 10:00 - Why perimenopause symptoms can appear while periods are still regular
    • 12:00 - The confusion of fluctuating estrogen levels and what it feels like from the inside
    • 16:00 - Dr Liz Murray: a decade to diagnosis and what went wrong
    • 18:00 - How the pill masked endometriosis and what coming off it without guidance cost her
    • 20:00 - What GPs can do, and the conversations that still aren't happening
    • 22:00 - Red flags that warrant further investigation, and why you don't need to wait
    • 24:00 - The overlap between ADHD, neurodivergence and hormonal conditions
    • 28:00 - What Liz's charity is doing to change how future doctors are trained
    • 31:00 - Laura Federico and Morgan Miller: cycle tracking as a tool for self-understanding
    • 35:00 - Tracking through perimenopause, HRT and changing cycles
    • 37:00 - How cycle data helps you understand mood, energy and RSD across the month
    • 39:00 - Coming back into your body as a radical act of self-compassion
    • 42:00 - Tracking when your cycle isn't regular or predictable

    Links and Resources:

    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. Discover my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.



    Visit Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund's website: ⁠lottaborgskoglund.com⁠ Connect with Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund on ⁠Instagram⁠ Get Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund's book: ⁠Female Hormones and ADHD: The Impact on Brain and Body⁠ Visit Dr Liz Murray's website: ⁠drlizmurray.com⁠ Connect with Dr Liz Murray on ⁠Instagram⁠ Get Dr Liz Murray's book: ⁠Not Just Painful Periods: Endometriosis, Fibroids and Menstrual Health⁠ Visit Laura and Morgan's website: ⁠itslauraandmorgan.com⁠ ⁠Get The Cycle Book⁠: An Interactive Step-by-Step Guide to Tracking Hormones and Knowing Your Body


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    26 August 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 46 minutes 47 seconds
    From ADHD Diagnosis to Self-Acceptance: Breaking Free from Shame, Self-Doubt & Limiting Beliefs

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    So many of us arrive at an ADHD diagnosis carrying years of shame, self-criticism and the quiet belief that something is fundamentally wrong with us. This episode is about what starts to shift when we finally have the right information.

    Welcome to this week's summer compilation. This one follows the journey from diagnosis to self-acceptance: the barriers so many of us still face in getting taken seriously, the practical tools that can help us quieten the inner critic, and a completely different way of seeing our ADHD traits, not as defects to fix, but as strengths that just need the right context and support.

    We hear from three guests across three different conversations. Vicki George, clinical nurse specialist and founder of The ADHD Nurse, on what the DIVA-5 assessment is really meant to be, why ADHD still carries more stigma than almost any other mental health condition, and how to advocate for yourself with a GP even when it feels uncomfortable.

    Cynthia Hammer, author of Living with Inattentive ADHD and founder of the Inattentive ADHD Coalition, on how understanding and accepting a diagnosis can bring more happiness even when the symptoms themselves haven't changed, and why replacing negative self-talk requires something to replace it with.

    And Hannah Miller, author of The Purpose Pursuit and host of The Purpose Pursuit Podcast, on what limiting beliefs actually are, how self-sabotage shows up for ADHD women, and her four-part framework for taking stock of where you are and finding your way forward.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • What the DIVA-5 assessment is and why it should be a guided conversation, not a form you fill out alone
    • Why ADHD diagnosis still carries more stigma than most other mental health conditions, and how unhelpful media headlines keep feeding that
    • Why a GP cannot refuse to refer you for an ADHD assessment, and how to keep the appointment focused on that goal
    • The challenges of titration and why finding the right medication is rarely a quick or straightforward process
    • How understanding and accepting a diagnosis brought more happiness to the women Cynthia interviewed, even when their symptoms hadn't changed
    • Why you can't simply get rid of a negative thought without replacing it with something else, and what that can look like in practice
    • Why earlier diagnosis matters so much, and why girls with inattentive ADHD are still so frequently missed
    • Hannah's four-part framework: taking stock, naming your strengths, identifying limiting behaviours and clarifying your values
    • Why our traits are not defects, and how Clifton Strengths can help neurodivergent women begin to see themselves differently
    • Why we don't have to be everything, and how leaning on others' strengths is part of thriving, not failing

    Timestamps:

    • 00:00 - Welcome and introduction to this week's compilation
    • 03:00 - Vicki George: what the DIVA-5 assessment is and why it matters
    • 06:00 - Why the person being assessed is always believed over a parent or observer
    • 08:00 - Why ADHD still carries more stigma than other mental health conditions
    • 10:30 - How to advocate for yourself with a GP and what they can and can't do
    • 13:00 - Titration, medication and why the process is so rarely straightforward
    • 18:00 - Cynthia Hammer: how diagnosis brings happiness even when symptoms remain
    • 21:00 - Interrupting negative self-talk and why replacement matters
    • 24:00 - Why girls with inattentive ADHD are still being missed by standard tools
    • 27:00 - Why whole-family screening matters when one person is diagnosed
    • 30:00 - Hannah Miller: what happens when diagnosis collides with limiting beliefs
    • 33:00 - The four-part framework: taking stock, strengths, limiting behaviors, values
    • 36:00 - Why traits we've labelled as flaws can become our greatest strengths
    • 39:00 - Clifton Strengths and why it works well for neurodivergent women
    • 42:00 - We don't have to be everything, we just have to be good at something

    Links and Resources:

    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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    19 August 2026, 11:00 pm
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