The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Kate Moryoussef

Empowering mindset, wellbeing and lifestyle conversations for newly-diagnosed ADHD women

  • 16 minutes 33 seconds
    The Cerebellum and ADHD - what we need to know!

    Check out all of Kate's latest workshops and resources here

    Did you know that we can create new neural pathways using neuroplasticity by activating a part of the brain called the cerebellum? Enhancing this part of our brain - over the pre-frontal cortex - can ease and lessen our ADHD symptoms and create a more effortless daily life.

    This week's guest is Wynford Dore, an entrepreneur on a mission to change the lives of one million children. Wynford is the founder of Zing Brain Development programmes, and for the last twenty years, He has focused on changing the world, one brain at a time. He's funded many research projects and now works with the leading academics to determine the best solutions that successfully accelerate and develop learning in the brain—which finds our hidden potential and increases mental capacity…. including creating greater, stronger emotional regulation.

    During today's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Wynford talked about:

    • What is the cerebellum and why is it so important to neurodivergence
    • How can we stimulate and activate the cerebellum
    • Stepping out of our thinking brain, the pre-frontal cortex and executive thinking and using the cerebellum more
    • What we need to know about the cerebellum and ADHD
    • New ways of learning for neurodivergent brains
    • Creating new neural pathways and plasticity to enhance the cerebellum
    • Wynford's Zing programme to help people activate their cerebellum
    • Activities and ways to help activate the cerebellum

    Check out Kate's latest workshop and 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.

    12 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 47 minutes 16 seconds
    Healing Money Trauma and Becoming Financially Resilient

    Healing from financial abuse or trauma can feel scary. Our nervous system may have been used to being hypervigilant and disempowered around money due to generational trauma and not understanding our neurodivergence. Many of us don't understand the energy of money, and so much shame can be attached to our sense of self, self-worth and our unconscious relationship to money.

    This week's episode features the incredible Catherine Morgan, a multi-award-winning qualified Financial Adviser, Certified Financial Coach, Financial Abuse Specialist ®, Inherited family trauma healer, and financial therapist who specialises in helping women feel more deserving of holding money through somatic, therapeutic, and practical tools. Catherine is on a mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment & resilience for 1 million people worldwide.

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

    • The connection between your nervous system and your wealth
    • Why practising gratitude can increase your ability to hold money
    • How to explore your past family trauma around money
    • Letting go of old beliefs you have about your ability to make money
    • Catherine's mission is to empower women to hold and attract wealth
    • How Catherine came to her diagnosis of ADHD
    • Understanding our financial core beliefs and healing for the next generation
    • Using somatic practices to heal from financial trauma
    • Her inspiring journey to want to help women with their finances
    • What financial control and abuse can look like

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    Check out Kate's latest workshop and 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.

    8 May 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 16 minutes 3 seconds
    Creating a FUN and fulfilling ADHD career - yes, it is possible!

    Looking for a fulfilling and fun career that doesn't lead to burnout and boredom, with full awareness of your ADHD? Amanda Perry is the person to listen to and this clip is as wise as they get!

    As many of us know, overworking and not prioritising our mental health can be a trait many of us relate to - this may have been a pattern your undiagnosed self fell into for many years.

    We discuss this with guest Amanda Perry, a serial entrepreneur and ADHD advocate. Following her diagnosis in 2020, she realized she had built a prison instead of a business, so she set about creating a life that worked WITH her brain instead of against it. She now helps other founders create their own version of success, balancing the value of time, energy, and money.

    In today's ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Kate and Amanda talked about:

    • Getting clear on your values so you can create a career that includes them
    • Deciding how you want your work to make you feel
    • Non-negotiable values for our ADHD careers
    • Having fun, creating systems and making money!
    • Amanda's journey in business being undiagnosed ADHD
    • Creating ADHD-friendly systems to make life easier
    • Having the courage to change and pivot in business
    • Upper limiting ourselves as self-protection
    • Putting our nervous system first
    • Having autonomy over your mental health

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

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    Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine here

    5 May 2024, 7:00 am
  • 46 minutes 15 seconds
    Rewiring Our ADHD Brains to Form Healthier and Sustainable Habits

    Neuroscience has become a recent fascination of mine as it 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, will be published in May 2024. Pre-orders are 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.

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    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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    1 May 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 17 minutes 39 seconds
    Dr Ned Hallowell's personal advice on ADHD worrying and catastrophizing

    When ADHD world expert, Dr Ned Hallowell told me he also constantly worries and catastrophises, I breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm not alone," I thought, listening intently to how he combats his incessant ADHD imagination!

    On today's short episode, I'm delighted to welcome back the incredible ADHD world expert Dr Edward Hallowell, a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, to the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast for our second episode together.

    Not only is Dr Ned an ADHD leader, but he's also a diagnosed patient, and he has dedicated his whole career to empowering and supporting people with ADHD. He's passionate about helping neurodivergent patients thrive and develop in life with new awareness, tools and strategies. He has written a new book, ADHD Explained, which can be bought here.

    He has spent the past four decades helping thousands of adults and children live happy and productive lives through his strength-based approach to neurodiversity and has ADHD and dyslexia.

    During this ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast episode, Kate and Dr Hallowell speak about:

    • Dr Ned's newest book - ADHD Explained
    • The Default Mode Network, ADHD and learning to switch channels
    • The TPN and creativity
    • Holding our attention well enough to hold the TPN
    • Working around worry, Dr Hallowell's tips for ADHD overthinking
    • Why you might be prone to ADHD worrying and catastrophising - the ADHD imagination
    • The effects of ADHD symptoms on your nervous system
    • Hypervigilance, Burnout and ADHD
    • Glimmers and Touchstones to help us live with more inner peace
    • The future of ADHD

    If you'd like further support, my ADHD Women's Wellbeing Hormone Series is now available, with new resources regularly added. Learn how hormones are inextricably linked to our ADHD as women, advocate, and empower yourself and your loved ones with the most up-to-date information from specialists on hormones, ADHD, cycles, women, health, nutrition, genetic testing, lifestyle, menopause, and more! Click here for all the details and get access.

    27 April 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 49 minutes 36 seconds
    Healing from Emotional Abuse and Narcissism with Katie McKenna and Helen Villiers

    Today's conversation features the incredibly insightful and informative Katie McKenna and Helen Villers. In this episode, we are talking about the impact of growing up with emotionally abusive or narcissistic parents, understanding this through the lens of neurodivergence and healing from this behaviour so we can finally break systemic generational patterns.

    Helen Villiers, LLB, PG Cert, PG Dip, MA, is a psychotherapist with a master's degree in Working Therapeutically with Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents. Helen works with clients recovering from narcissistic abuse; she also specialises in autism and ADHD and is a couples counsellor, too.

    Katie McKenna, BA, MIACP is an accredited psychotherapist who specialises in parentification and emotional abuse. Katie educates adults on how their childhood relationships are impacting their current relationships. She helps them recognise and heal from the lifelong impacts of dysfunctional family dynamics through the psychotherapy process.

    Together, they co-host the successful podcast 'In Sight', and they have just brought out their brand new book, You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal.

    On the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, with Kate, they talk about:

    • Understanding the definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder - NPD
    • Defining terms, such as 'Narcissist' and 'Parentification'
    • The impact of growing up with an emotionally abusive parent
    • How a narcissistic parent behaves and the traits of a narcissist
    • How to set your own boundaries in relationships
    • Recognising what are neurodivergent traits and what could've been narcissism
    • Validating your trauma and feelings toward a narcissistic parent
    • Emotional responsibility, motivational empathy and feeling more empowered
    • Healing ourselves from emotional abuse
    • Releasing resentment towards an emotionally abusive family member
    • How we gaslight ourselves to think their behaviour is justifiable
    • Breaking the generational cycle of trauma and doing the work so as not to pass on the abusive behaviour
    • Taking responsibility for traumatised, abusive and narcissistic behaviour
    • Hypervigilance and being an empath
    • Understanding 'weaponised ignorance'
    • Understanding infantilization and enmeshment

     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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    24 April 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 19 minutes 41 seconds
    Tracking your unique cycles and hormonal rhythms to manage your ADHD

    Have you noticed how your ADHD ebbs and flows, impacting your mood and energy during did phases of your month?

    This conversation will empower you to understand why and, importantly, how you can help yourself and feel more in control of both your ADHD and hormones.

    This week’s Kate chats with Adele Wimsett, a Women's Health Practitioner & Cyclical Living Expert diagnosed with combined type ADHD. 

    Having co-authored the book Essential Feminine Wisdom, she is passionate about educating women & girls on how to harness the power of their cyclical nature. Adele bridges the woo & the science, supporting women to balance their hormones naturally and is passionate about speaking on all things menstrual education!

    During this episode, Kate and Adele spoke about:

    • How the female ADHD brain is affected by hormones
    • The different stages of our cycle and the feelings and emotions that often arise on different days
    • How to advocate for yourself with ADHD and hormone support
    • Why tracking your cycle is important
    • How working with the moon can help create more awareness in the cycle
    • How can we look after ourselves in the different cyclic phases to help our ADHD
    • Ovulation and ADHD
    • Progesterone sensitivity
    • Recognising all the unknown with hormones and ADHD
    • What perimenopause does to women with ADHD
    • HRT, menopause and ADHD - what we need to know and the powerful changes HRT
    • Memory and ADHD traits that flare up during our hormonal changes
    • Essential oils to work with your cycle

    You can connect with Adele via her website harmoniseyou.co.uk or on Instagram, @harmoniseyou.

    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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    20 April 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 45 minutes 39 seconds
    Understanding Sugar Addiction, Dopamine-Sensitivity and ADHD

    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're going to want to listen to this week's episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing, with guest Dr. Nicole Avena, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and a Visiting Professor of Health Psychology at Princeton University. 

    Nicole is 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. She has the #2 most watched TED-ED Health talk, How Sugar Affects Your Brain, with over 17 million views and counting.

    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 
    • Why you might find it challenging to cut out sugar 
    • How processed sugar affects ADHD children 
    • How sugar affects your body and your health 
    • Parenting and teaching our kids nutritional choices and consuming processed sugar 
    • Having a susceptible dopamine system
    • Managing a sugar addiction, binges and regaining control 
    • Our busy society doesn't lend itself to healthy eating
    • ADHD and female social expectations
    • Implementing small incremental changes to help reduce sugar addiction
    • Showing ourselves compassion when consuming sugar
    • Understanding sugar addiction compared to other addictions
    • Learning to bring in more balance when consuming sugary foods

    Thanks to our sponsor, Get Dopa!

    Created by and for neurodivergent brains, this smart supplement contains 16 powerful nootropic ingredients. Use code Kate10 at the checkout to get your 10% discount. Click here to find out more.

    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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    18 April 2024, 7:30 am
  • 16 minutes 57 seconds
    Instilling your expansive boundaries to prevent burnout

    “Boundaries are expansive...build in that pause before you say the knee-jerk yes.”

    This week’s episode features Nancy Levin, a Master Coach, podcast host, and bestselling author of several books. Formerly the event director at Hay House for over a decade, Nancy is the founder of Levin Life Coach Academy, which offers in-depth coaching, training, and certification programs designed to support students in making themselves a priority by setting boundaries that stick.

    Nancy is the self-proclaimed boundary queen. On the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast today, Kate and Nancy talked about:

    • Taking micro-actions to prevent overwhelm
    • Notice when you're saying a knee-jerk 'yes'
    • Perfectionism and external-validation 
    • Over-achieving and over-compensating as ADHD women
    • Dissolving our inside-judgement 
    • Imposter syndrome and devaluing ourselves
    • People pleasing and putting people on a pedestal
    • How combining all of this with overachieving, ambition and drive can lead to exhaustion & burnout

    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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    14 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 38 minutes 34 seconds
    Visualising a better ADHD future using Positive Psychology

    Feeling more empowered by understanding how to harness our brains to visualise a calmer and more fulfilled future is possible, and we discuss all of this and much more with my guest, Ruth Kudzi.

    Ruth is a coach, psychologist, and trainer with nearly 30 years of experience studying Psychology. She's fascinated by how Positive Psychology tools can help us feel better and enhance our well-being. Ruth's an ICF master-certified coach, best-selling author, leading podcaster, and international speaker focusing on well-being and coaching.

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

    • The concept of 'self-coaching' and how it can help you to make incremental changes
    • Positive Psychology, what it is and how it can help you ADHD brain
    • ADHD pre-disposition to anxiety and how to improve negative thought patterns
    • ADHD post-diagnosis grief
    • Relating to your family after a diagnosis
    • The power of visualisation and imagining your 'future self' to improve your current situation
    • ADHD catastrophising and using positive psychology to help calm our brains
    • ADHD and dopamine addictions
    • Using different ways of visualisation to create a better future
    • Finding meaning and purpose and why it might not be your career
    • Ruth's tips for burnout

    Thanks to our sponsor, Get Dopa, created by and for neurodivergent brains, with 16 powerful nootropic ingredients in one smart supplement. Get your 10% discount by using code Kate10 at the checkout. Click here to find out more.

    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. 

    Follow the podcast on Instagram here.

    Follow Kate on Instagram here

    Find Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here

    10 April 2024, 11:15 pm
  • 14 minutes 18 seconds
    Building resiliency, facing fear and learning how to fail with Diann Wingert

    "The only way to be resilient is to fail."

    Welcome to an episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom. This week’s guest is Diann Wingert, a psychotherapist and business mindset coach who helps entrepreneurial women unlock their brilliance and create a profitable, sought-after business in their zone of genius. She is an expert in the intersection of feminism, ADHD, and entrepreneurship.

    In this short episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, Diann and I talked about: 

    • How Diann has a no-nonsense, no-BS approach, which is fantastic for ADHD women.
    • Being yourself in business and entrepreneurialism
    • Her confident communication methods
    • Trauma, ADHD and Resiliency
    • Building resiliency through being authentic and often failing
    • What are upper limit issues, and how do they impact us facing fear and moving forward?
    • The importance of resilience as solopreneurs
    • Being direct
    • How rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) shows up and how we can help ourselves
    • Menopause and its impact on our confidence and resilience
    • Living well with ADHD - living our purpose as entrepreneurs
    • Confident communication, being direct, efficient and not wasting time with ADHD
    • What fear teaches us
    • Changing our negative stories and mindset and reframing our struggles
    • Learning what our blind spots are and how to move past them
    • Boundaries and self-acceptance, the skills we have and the blind spots we may have.

    Listen to Kate and Diann's other conversations here and 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 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

    7 April 2024, 8:00 am
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