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Kate Moryoussef

Are you struggling with the challenges of life as a woman with ADHD? Perhaps you need support with your mental and physical wellbeing, so you can feel calmer, happier and more balanced? Perhaps you’re newly diagnosed with ADHD – or just ADHD curious – and don’t know where to turn for support. Or perhaps you’re wondering how neurodivergence impacts your hormones or relationships?

If so, the award-winning ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This award-winning podcast is hosted by Kate Moryoussef, an ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach, author, EFT practitioner, mum of four, and late-in-life diagnosed with ADHD herself.

Each week, thousands of women just like you tune in to hear Kate chat with top ADHD experts, thought leaders, professionals and authors. Their powerful insights will help you harness your health and enhance your life as a woman with ADHD. 

From tips on nutrition, sleep and motivation to guidance on regulating your nervous system, dealing with anxiety and living a calmer and more balanced life, you’ll find it all here. 

The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast will help you live alongside your ADHD with more awareness, self-compassion and acceptance. It’s time to put an end to self-criticism, judgment and blame – and get ready to live a kinder and more authentic life.

“Mindblowing guests!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Brilliant and so life-affirming” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“So, so grateful for this!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Obsessed with this pod on ADHD!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ORDER NOW! Kate's new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit! https://www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk/adhd-womens-wellbeing-toolkit
In The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit, Kate Moryoussef shares the psychology and science behind the challenges faced by women with ADHD and lays out a roadmap for you to uncover your authentic self.

With practical lifestyle tools on how to manage mental, emotional, physical, and hormonal burnout and lean into your unique strengths to create more energy, joy, and creativity, this book will help you (re)learn to not only live with this brain difference but also thrive with it.

The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

In this insightful and empowering episode, I’m joined by Vanessa Gorelkin, an occupational therapist who brings a deeply compassionate and practical perspective to supporting ADHD, especially when it comes to emotional regulation, energy management, and creating environments that help us thrive.

Together, we explore how occupational therapy (OT) can be a game-changer for adults with ADHD to help us understand our sensory needs, emotional responses, and daily rhythms. We also explore Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), two powerful frameworks that offer tools for navigating emotional ups and downs with more ease and self-compassion.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

Key Takeaways:

 • What occupational therapy can look like for adults with ADHD
 • How DBT techniques like emotional regulation and distress tolerance can help ADHD
 • The importance of workplace accommodations for neurodivergent individuals
 • Energy management and the mental health impact of overcompensating for sensory challenges
 • How to identify your optimal conditions to avoid overstimulation and burnout
 • The role of the sensitive nervous system and being stuck in a high-cortisol state
 • Using the diving reflex to regulate your internal state (yes to sighing, cold water, and essential oils!)
 • Why timing matters when it comes to meditation and rest
 • How Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps us understand our behaviours and emotional triggers
 • Why a holistic approach is essential in ADHD therapy and wellbeing

Whether you're managing anxiety, experiencing burnout, or looking for practical, holistic strategies to support your nervous system, this episode is packed with supportive takeaways for you to try!
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More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month, click here. To join for £286 for a year (a whole month free!), click here.

We’ll also be walking through The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit together, exploring nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, RSD, joy, hormones, and self-trust, so...

Holistic Tools for ADHD Self-Regulation, Distress Tolerance & Mood with Vanessa Gorelkin

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we’re joined by Nick Potter, consultant osteopath and head of health and wellbeing at Brevan Howard Asset Management. 

Nick brings a fresh perspective on what’s really going on in our bodies, especially for neurodivergent women navigating stress, sensory overload, pain, and misdiagnosis.

We talk about how the brain processes pain, why hypermobility might be affecting your nervous system more than you think, and the powerful link between chronic conditions like fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraines, and hormonal symptoms and ADHD. 

Key takeaways:

 • What
 • proprioception is and why ADHD women need to understand it
 • The science behind pain perception and why your brain might interpret things as worse than they are
 • How hypermobility and collagen differences affect proprioception (a unspoken 6th sense)
 • Why neurodivergent women experience more chronic fatigue, pain, and hormonal symptoms
 • The emotional relief and reduced pain that come with a proper diagnosis
 • The body budget theory: how burnout happens when your energy runs low, and what to do about it
 • How childhood stress and trauma can change the way your nervous system responds to the world
 • Using HRV (heart rate variability) as a signal for stress, illness or burnout
 • The additional stress women go through from having an additional hormone (the womb), and its impact on health 
 • The importance of using anxiety and fear as a signal, not something to ignore
 • Simple, free tools to support your nervous system, such as resistance training, breathwork, and rest

This is an empowering and validating episode which explains why your body feels like it's constantly in overdrive and help you connect the dots between your body and brain in a whole new way.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here! 

Timestamps: 

 • 08:16: Understanding Pain and Neurodivergence
 • 11:13: Understanding Hypermobility and the Brain
 • 18:22: Understanding Burnout and Chronic Stress
 • 26:45: Understanding Women's Health and Sensitivity
 • 36:06: Starting the Day Right: Awakening the Body and Mind
 • 38:26: The Importance of Movement in Cultural Practices

Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month,

Unpacking the Complexities of ADHD, Stress, Pain and Hypermobility with Nick Potter

In this week's More Yourself episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, Kate explores one of the biggest and most powerful shifts that happens after a late ADHD diagnosis: learning to trust yourself again.

This clip from the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Summer series workshop, Boosting your Self-Belief and Self-Trust after a late-in-life ADHD Diagnosis, is all about rebuilding self-belief, understanding your inner dialogue, and shifting the unhelpful stories we’ve been telling ourselves, often our whole lives.

Many women diagnosed later in life carry years of internalised shame, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and chronic self-doubt. In this episode, we explore how to recognise and rewire limiting beliefs that have become your reality for so long, but may not actually be true. 

This conversation will help you embrace life with self-compassion, clarity, and trust in who you are, what you believe, and how you want to navigate your life.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

Key Takeaways:

 • Learning how to recognise, rewire, release, and rebuild beliefs to develop stronger self-trust after an ADHD diagnosis
 • How what we believe often shapes how we see ourselves and our reality
 • Understanding how internal criticism and old thought patterns influence our choices, confidence, and emotional wellbeing
 • The power of self-trust and how to reconnect with your inner voice, which knows who you truly are
 • Using affirmations and mantras to gently shift how you speak to yourself, moving from self-doubt to self-support
 • Understanding how you want to show up, speak to yourself, and regulate your emotions with compassion and clarity
 • Why self-acceptance starts with awareness to make space for growth
 • How to reframe limiting beliefs to move towards healing and self-confidence

Timestamps:

 • 04:47: Understanding Beliefs and Self-Trust
 • 07:40: Understanding Our Beliefs and Their Impact
 • 11:06: Trusting Your Inner Voice
 • 16:53: Embracing Self-Trust

If you enjoyed this clip, we'd love you to join us for our next live workshop on 16th December. Explore below to join the More Yourself community. 
The More Yourself Community doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month, click here. To join for £286 for a year (a whole month free!),

Reframing our Inner ADHD Dialogue: Moving From Criticism to Compassion

You might have heard of the term "digital wellness", and for those of us with ADHD it's way more than just a buzzword - it's a necessity! That's why this week's episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we're unpacking how we can support our neurodivergent brains that are wired for stimulation! 

In this episode, we’re joined by Laura Willis, a digital wellness coach, speaker, and advocate! Her work focuses on helping individuals and families take back control of their screen time through mindfulness, boundaries, and education to step away from social media and reclaim mental clarity

We explore the addictive nature of phones and why constant digital use can impact our focus. Laura offers practical, actionable tools to manage screen time, reduce stress, and foster healthier digital habits, for both adults and kids.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

Key Takeaways:

 • What is digital wellness, and why it matters, especially for ADHD brains 
 • Laura's journey away from social media and how it impacted her mental health
 • The role of schools and parents in guiding healthy screen use.
 • The HARMONY acronym for building better digital habits
 • How to foster a family culture of open conversations around tech.
 • Recognising our own phone use behaviour to model to kids 
 • Setting boundaries like screen-free times to support attention and reduce stress
 • Using tools like pen and paper to boost memory and avoid digital distractions.
 • Exploring digital presentism and taking personal responsibility for tech use 
 • The impact of digital culture on high-stress professions like law and finance.

From parenting tips to workplace boundaries, this conversation is packed with insight, warmth, and encouragement for anyone seeking more presence and peace in a tech-saturated world.

Timestamps:

 • 02:29: The Journey to Digital Wellness
 • 07:18: Navigating Technology and Mental Health
 • 15:29: Starting the Conversation with Children about Technology
 • 19:10: Navigating Technology and Relationships
 • 24:56: Finding Digital Harmony and Balance in Parenting and Technology
 • 33:38: The Importance of Screen-Free Breaks
 • 36:28: Reclaiming Our Digital Independence
 • 41:47: The Impact of Digital Wellbeing on Professional Life

Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month,

Creating Mindful ADHD Tech Habits for a Calmer Life

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we’re exploring the complex and often overlooked intersection of ADHD, hormones, and women’s mental health, particularly during pivotal life transitions like perimenopause.

I’m joined by Dr. Helen Wall, a GP and registered menopause specialist with the British Menopause Society. Helen is also a resident GP on BBC Breakfast, a columnist for Woman magazine, and public health clinical director in Greater Manchester. She therefore brings both clinical expertise and real-world empathy to bridge the gap between professional healthcare and accessible, compassionate advice to ensure women feel heard, understood, and properly supported.

We explore why so many women feel dismissed or misdiagnosed when seeking help for emotional and physical symptoms related to hormone fluctuations, and touch on everything from progesterone sensitivity and HRT, to advocating for yourself at the GP, and the growing need for women’s health education that takes neurodiversity seriously.

I discuss the crossover of ADHD and hormones in my new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, which is now available. Grab your copy here!

Key Takeaways:

 • Why so many women with ADHD report mental health declines during perimenopause, including PMDD, anxiety, and mood disorders.
 • The connection between hormonal sensitivity and neurodivergence, and why it's often overlooked by mainstream medicine.
 • How stereotypes and stigma contribute to late ADHD diagnosis in women, especially in midlife.
 • The shift in how menopause is being discussed and treated post-COVID.
 • The dangers of a "one-size-fits-all" approach to HRT and why personalised prescriptions matter.
 • Why clinicians must join the dots between long-term anxiety and depression and undiagnosed ADHD or hormonal issues.
 • The growing importance of patient-led care and better GP education around menopause and neurodiversity.
 • How to advocate for yourself at the doctor’s office when your concerns have been dismissed.

Timestamps:

 • 01:50 – ADHD & Hormonal Concerns
 • 04:00 – Perimenopause & Mental Health
 • 06:10 – Misconceptions About ADHD Hormones
 • 10:06 – ADHD in Women: The Hidden Struggles
 • 16:19 – Personalised HRT & Progesterone Sensitivity
 • 25:12 – Women’s Health Advocacy in Practice
 • 31:21 – Self-Advocacy for Better Treatment

Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note...

Advocating for Your ADHD Hormonal Health: What Women Need to Know with Dr Helen Wall

Have you been struggling to get out of bed lately, stick to your routines or noticed a shift in your mood as the days have got shorter? If your answer is yes, this episode is for you! 

In this More Yourself episode, we revisit a clip from my recent workshop about Resting Through the Seasons. We discussed the impact of natural light and seasonal shifts on sleep, circadian rhythm and emotional regulation for women with ADHD. As well as exploring the small changes you can make to have a big impact.

This isn’t about quick wins or productivity hacks. It’s about understanding your body, honouring your needs, and finding rhythms that feel good to you. 

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

Key Takeaways:

 • How seasonal changes impact sleep, mood, and energy, especially for women with ADHD
 • Why morning light is a natural “medicine” that helps regulate melatonin, mood, and motivation
 • The role of circadian rhythms and how to work with your internal clock, not against it
 • Why ADHD night owls may struggle more during seasonal shifts
 • The influence of hormones (e.g. HRT and progesterone) on sleep quality and emotional regulation
 • Tips for creating calming, gentle rituals and a sleep-friendly bedroom environment
 • Why acknowledging the impact of seasonal change (without blame) is key to self-compassion

Timestamps:

 • 00:00: Understanding Seasonal Changes and Sleep Quality
 • 00:26: Understanding ADHD and Circadian Rhythms
 • 07:23: The Importance of Morning Light for ADHD Management
 • 12:07: The Importance of Evening Routines for Rest and Recovery
 • 15:52: Understanding Hormonal Influences on Sleep

If you enjoyed this clip, we'd love you to join us for our next live workshop on 16th December. Explore below to join the More Yourself community. 
The More Yourself Community doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month, click here. To join for £286 for a year (a whole month free!), click here.

We’ll also be walking through The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit together, exploring nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, RSD, joy, hormones, and self-trust, so the book comes alive in a supportive community setting.

Links...

Navigating Winter with ADHD: Tips for Seasonal Affective Disorder

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we’re exploring the emotional complexities of female friendship through the lens of ADHD!

I'm joined by Dr. Gilly Kahn, a clinical psychologist and author of Allow Me to Interrupt: A Psychologist Reveals the Emotional Truth Behind Women's ADHD, to explore how emotional dysregulation, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), and masking impact our ability to form and maintain healthy social connections, but also help us develop the deepest and most supportive friendships. 

We discuss why friendships can feel overwhelming, how the fear of being left out (or left behind) can trigger deep emotional responses, and how self-awareness and communication can help us nurture more authentic relationships.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!
Key Takeaways: • How emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity (RSD) can impact female friendships, often leading to misunderstandings and emotional overwhelm.
 • Why ADHD women often prefer direct, meaningful communication.
 • How small talk or indirect social norms can feel confusing or exhausting.
 • The common experience of feeling excluded or disconnected in group friendships, especially during times of emotional sensitivity.
 • The pressure to mask or people-please in social settings, and the toll that takes on mental wellbeing.
 • The power of gently “filtering” through friendships to focus on quality over quantity.
 • Why FOMO, birthday anxiety, and fear of people not showing up are amplified for women with ADHD.
 • How to honour your social battery by setting boundaries and creating space to recharge.
 • Building self-awareness around your social patterns can help reduce RSD triggers and protect your emotional energy.
 • The impact of finding your 
“tribe” • in friendships where you can be fully yourself, without masking or performing.

Timestamps:

 • 00:01: Introduction to ADHD Women's Wellbeing
 • 12:12: Navigating Female Friendships and ADHD
 • 22:44: Understanding Social Dynamics in Women's Friendships
 • 25:45: Navigating Social Expectations and Personal Reflections
 • 40:00: Understanding Neurodivergence and Authenticity

Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest...

Female Friendships and ADHD: How to Find Your Tribe and Build Meaningful Neurodivergent Connections

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we’re exploring the emotional, relational, and creative realities of living with ADHD, both before and after diagnosis.

I'm joined by Sam Pittis and Katie Breathwick, Classic FM broadcasters and hosts of You’re Wrong About ADHD. Sam and Katie share their very different personal journeys with ADHD, showing that everyone experiences ADHD differently. They also discuss how it’s shaped everything from relationships to their professional lives in broadcasting and beyond.

We talk about the power and impact of late diagnosis, the emotional shifts that follow, and how understanding ADHD has helped them create stronger relationship, with others and themselves. They also reflect on the unique ways ADHD shows up in creativity, especially in fast-paced careers like media and music.

Key Takeaways:

 • Katie's journey of receiving an ADHD diagnosis, from relief and understanding to grief and anger, and how it brought parts of her personality to life.
 • Sam’s experience of undiagnosed ADHD, including school struggles, sensory overload, and not fitting typical ADHD stereotypes due to overcompensation.
 • How masking and structure delayed Sam’s diagnosis, until routines broke down after becoming a parent.
 • The importance of acceptance, awareness, and open conversations after diagnosis.
 • How different treatment approaches shaped Katie and Sam’s post-diagnosis experiences in distinct ways.
 • Learning to balance stimulation and rest to avoid burnout or emotional dysregulation from boredom by developing personal coping mechanisms. 
 • The way partners can blend their strengths and skills to support each other through ADHD challenges.
 • Why broadcasting is a supportive career for ADHD by offering connection, stimulation, quick thinking, and dopamine boosts.
 • The crash that follows hyperfocus or overworking due to intense energy output.
 • Noticing signs of ADHD in famous creatives like Mozart, and what that reveals about neurodiversity across history.

Timestamps:

 • 01:31 – How Sam and Katie Met
 • 04:33 – Katie’s ADHD Diagnosis
 • 06:16 – Sam’s ADHD Story
 • 10:53 – Reaching Acceptance
 • 13:38 – Katie’s Post-Diagnosis Learnings
 • 19:42 – A Call for Cultural Change
 • 25:36 – ADHD’s Impact on Relationships
 • 29:22 – ADHD & Creative Careers
 • 39:43 – ADHD in the Workplace
 • 42:41 – Neurodiversity in Music

This conversation is a reminder that awareness, acceptance, and the right support can transform how we live, work, and connect, with our partners, our passions, and our own neurodivergent minds.
Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!
More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring...

Same Diagnosis, Different Journeys with You’re Wrong About ADHD's Sam Pittis & Katie Breathwick

In this episode of More Yourself, I'm sharing a clip from a recent SEED Talk I presented back in July, focusing on how we can work with our uniquely wonderful ADHD brains, rather than against them. 

Understanding our ADHD brain is a key element of healing, but we don't have to face this as though it is something new. We have always been neurodivergent, but we may not have had the language or awareness to understand it before. 

The modern world asks us to constantly perform, engage in challenging environments and overcompensate to fit in, but this can be exhausting. When we begin to find self-compassion, honour our unique experiences, we can tune into our bodies and take small, intentional steps toward self-care, self-regulation, and authenticity. In turn, self-trust releases the need for external validation and reclaims a life that feels more aligned, more spacious, and more true to who we are.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

What I discuss:

 • Some of the deepest pressures we carry come from within, shaped by internalised expectations and perfectionism.
 • How to better understand your personal bandwidth by noticing the people, environments, and choices that either energise or deplete you.
 • How to break intergenerational cycles of burnout, overwhelm and people pleasing through creating a supportive environment.
 • Understanding your priorities and asking yourself what you want to let go of.
 • How creativity, breathwork, and other self-regulation tools can gently support you through anxiety and depression.
 • The healing power of self-advocacy, and what can happen when you give yourself full permission to rest, take up space, and just be.

Timestamps:

 • 00:05 - The Recognition of Neurodiversity
 • 01:51 - Understanding Our Neurodivergent Experiences
 • 06:10 - Understanding Burnout and Setting Boundaries
 • 09:09 - Embracing Change and Letting Go
 • 14:12 - The Importance of Self-Regulation and Asking for Help
 • 15:19 - The Power of Self-Acceptance and Permission

The More Yourself Community doors are now open!

More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month, click here. To join for £286 for a year (a whole month free!), click here.

We’ll also be walking through

How Do We Release Our Internal ADHD Pressure and Expectations?

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, Anna Mathur—BACP-accredited psychotherapist and Sunday Times bestselling author, shares her personal and professional insight into how ADHD awareness can transform our approach to life!

Through honest reflections and expert insight, we unpack the grief that can come with a late ADHD diagnosis, the challenges of building self-trust, creating new boundaries and learning what our bandwidth feels like and how burnout can stem from years of masking and overfunctioning. 

Together, we share empowering strategies to help listeners move from all-or-nothing thinking to making sustainable, compassionate choices, rooted in self-awareness and nervous system care.

My new book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, is now available, grab your copy here!

What You’ll Learn:

 • Why ADHD can make decision-making so overwhelming, and how to rebuild self-trust
 • The grief and confusion that can follow a late ADHD diagnosis
 • How burnout shows up in ADHD women and why it’s often overlooked
 • The tension between the ADHD brain’s creativity and our nervous system’s need for calm
 • Shifting from “all or nothing” to making better, kinder choices for yourself
 • How to tune into your body’s signals when making decisions
 • Communicating your needs and letting go of people-pleasing
 • Using tools like a “Good Decision Diary” to grow confidence and clarity
 • The power of creative outlets and self-care practices like gardening

Timestamps:

 • 03:00 – Understanding ADHD: Personal Journeys and Insights
 • 10:34 – Navigating the Grief of ADHD Realisation
 • 17:01 – The Hidden Cost of Overfunctioning & Burnout
 • 25:24 – Living with an ADHD Brain: Exhaustion & Self-Doubt
 • 31:26 – Tuning Into Our Body’s Wisdom for Better Decisions
 • 35:24 – Prioritising Self-Care and Communicating Needs
 • 44:22 – Creative Outlets and Rebuilding Self-Trust

Whether you're just beginning to explore ADHD or deep in your healing journey, this conversation is a reminder that you’re not alone, and that self-care isn’t selfish, it’s essential.

Join the More Yourself Community - the doors are now open!

More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Sign up here!

Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to:

 • Connect with like-minded women who understand you 
 • Learn from guest experts and practical tools
 • Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders
 • Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate
 • Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions
 • Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions

To join for £26 a month, click here. To join for £286 for a year (a whole month free!),

Burnout, Boundaries and Bandwidth: ADHD-Informed Decision Making and Self-Trust with Anna Mathur

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.

Mentioned in this episode:

Gratitude link

Dr Ned Hallowell's personal advice on ADHD worrying and catastrophizing

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