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 ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast is for you. This multi-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.
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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.
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ADHD, Progesterone and Hormones: Life-Changing Information Every Woman Needs to Know with Dr Jolene Brighten
Episode 345
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • Duration 59:25
This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, ADHD Women's Wellbeing is putting this community, lived experiences, and practical support front and center. 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.
We talk a lot about hormones and ADHD. But this conversation goes much deeper.
What if the fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, difficult periods and the way your ADHD seems to shift throughout your cycle aren’t separate problems? What if they’re all giving you information about what’s happening in your body?
This week on The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, I’m joined by Dr Jolene Brighten for a fascinating and powerful deep dive into the biology behind ADHD in women, and some of the connections we just aren’t talking about enough.
Jolene is a board-certified naturopathic endocrinologist, nutritionist, certified menopause specialist and bestselling author of Beyond the Pill and Is This Normal? Her new book, ADHD and Women: A Guide to Understanding Your Hormones and Thriving with ADHD, is out now.
And she does not hold back in this conversation.
We get into progesterone, histamine, endometriosis, PMDD and perimenopause, and what they can mean for women with ADHD. We explore why symptoms that appear unrelated may be more connected than we realise, why so many women have spent years being passed between specialists and why understanding ADHD as something that affects the whole body can completely change the conversation.
Jolene also shares her own story, from her son’s ADHD diagnosis to being diagnosed with endometriosis after 29 years of periods and later discovering she is autistic.
This is one of those episodes that may have you joining dots you didn’t even realise were connected. If you’ve ever felt as though your hormones, brain and body are all speaking different languages, this conversation could help you understand the bigger picture.
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In this episode, we cover:
Jolene's late diagnoses of ADHD, endometriosis and autism, and why accommodations are so often mistaken for success
Why fatigue and anxiety are among the most common symptoms of endometriosis, and how it can be present without any pain
The links between ADHD, endometriosis, PMDD and fibroids, and why medicine so often treats them as coincidences
How histamine and mast cells may be connected to 2am to 4am waking, irritability and emotional dysregulation
What happens to dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and GABA when oestrogen and progesterone drop
Why hysterectomy and hormone suppression don't cure PMDD or endometriosis, and what this means for ADHD women
Body identical progesterone versus synthetic progestins, progesterone intolerance and why starting low and going slow can help
What research tells us about hormonal contraception and depression in ADHD women
Why movement is so powerful for the ADHD brain, and an honest look at why it can feel so hard to do
Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase, and why we were never designed to be productive all the time
Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and introducing Dr Jolene Brighten
02:30 - Jolene's journey to ADHD, endometriosis and autism diagnoses
05:30 - Entrepreneurship, accommodations and the support nobody sees
08:00 - What endometriosis can look like, including when there's no pain
10:00 - Jolene's endometriosis story, from childhood gut issues to secondary infertility
15:00 - Mast cells, histamine and the brain, immune and hormone connection
17:00 - Kate's experience with endometriosis, adenomyosis and continuous progesterone
21:00 - Access to care in the UK, US and Canada
23:00 - Why ADHD is the operating system you were born with
25:00 - What happens to the brain when oestrogen and progesterone drop
27:00 - PMDD: why it may be more than one condition
29:00 - NAC, mitochondria and the ADHD brain in perimenopause
32:00 - Progesterone, progestins and the research on contraception and depression
35:00 - ADHD as a full-body condition and the gut microbiome
37:00 - Progesterone intolerance, dosing and different ways of taking it
42:00 - Serotonin, dopamine and how the ADHD brain adapts
43:00 - Exercise, BDNF and giving your brain more energy
46:00 - Hysterectomies, unsupported women and the generations before us
48:00 - Alcohol, GABA and the luteal phase
49:00 - Rejecting productivity culture and honouring the need to rest
53:00 - Superpowers, kryptonite and asking what it's costing you
56:00 - Where to find Jolene's book and resources
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 Jolene's book, ADHD and Women (also available in ebook and audiobook): drbrighten.com/adhd-and-women
Visit Jolene's website for free articles on hormones, ADHD, PMDD and endometriosis: drbrighten.com
Listen to Jolene's podcast: The Dr. Brighten Show
Connect with Jolene on Instagram: @drjolenebrighten
Watch Jolene on YouTube: @DrJoleneBrighten
If today’s episode brought up anything for you, these organisations offer support and information:
Endometriosis UK Support Network
The Miscarriage Association helpline and support services
Campaign Against Living Miserably
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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A Community of Support: What's Coming to ADHD Women's Wellbeing
Episode 344
Sunday, October 4, 2026 • Duration 21:21
What Actually Helps YOU: This ADHD Awareness Month 2026, I'm putting community, real experiences, and practical support throughout the month. There are live podcast recordings, 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.
This one is a little different. No guest, no workshop clip — just me, talking to you about what's coming next and why community is at the heart of everything we're building here.
Today I'm sharing a personal update about what's happening at ADHD Women's Wellbeing this October and beyond, including some exciting plans for live events in 2027, how you can get involved in ADHD Awareness Month right now, and how I want your wisdom to shape something I'm creating for this community.
This one is warm, unscripted and very much from the heart. Sign up for the ADHD WW events waitlist here
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In this episode, I cover:
What the first-ever ADHD Women's Wellbeing live event in Manchester taught me, and why I want to do more
My plans for in-person events in 2027, what they'll look and feel like, and how to get on the waitlist
Why ADHD Awareness Month 2026 is all about community, lived experience and what actually helps
The Google Form I'm creating to collect your wisdom — what makes your daily life easier with ADHD — and how your answers will shape a community workbook
How to attend free live podcast recordings this October and ask experts your questions in real time
Why I believe lived experience often comes before the research, and why I want more of your voice in this space
The legacy I want to leave through ADHD Women's Wellbeing and what I'm building towards
Why I'm doing all of this with very finite energy, a tiny team, and a genuine commitment to keeping things accessible
Links and Resources:
Visit the Events page and join the live events waitlist here
Fill in the What Actually Helps You Form here
Explore the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Workshop Library here
Get my book, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit (also available in ebook and audiobook) here
Join the More Yourself membership community here
Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod
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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Creating a More Meaningful ADHD Life
Episode 343
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 • Duration 49:36
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:
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
Visit Meghan's website: meghanfrenchdunbar.com
Connect with Meghan on Instagram
Connect with Meghan on LinkedIn
Subscribe to Meghan's Substack: Unbehaved
Listen to Meghan's podcast: Unbehaved
Watch Meghan's TEDx talk
Get Meghan's book: This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success
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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The Collision Between ADHD, Femininity, and Gender from Understood.org
Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 35:06
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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ADHD, Gut Health and Your Nervous System: A Compassionate Guide with Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas
Episode 342
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 50:25
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:
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
Visit Miguel's website
Connect with Miguel on Instagram
Connect with Miguel on LinkedIn
Get Miguel's book: ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health
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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Your ADHD Nervous System Explained
Episode 341
Sunday, September 20, 2026 • Duration 21:54
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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Is the ADHD Brain an Intuitive Brain?
Episode 340
Thursday, September 17, 2026 • Duration 52:03
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:
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
Visit Laura's website: lauraday.com
Get Laura's new book: The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, also available as an audiobook narrated by Laura herself
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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Why Doesn’t My GP Understand ADHD & What’s Really Happening in the 10-Minute Appointment
Episode 339
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 48:47
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:
Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here.
Connect with 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
Visit Victoria's website: victoriagalvis.com
Get the book: Neurodivergence in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for UK Healthcare Professionals - Also available free on Kindle Unlimited
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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Routines vs Rituals: A Gentler Approach to Structure with ADHD
Episode 338
Sunday, September 6, 2026 • Duration 21:56
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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:
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 ADHD Routines and Structures workshop with a 10% discount 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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Why You Keep Snapping at the People You Love with Anna Mathur
Episode 337
Thursday, September 3, 2026 • Duration 44:54
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:
Find my popular ADHD Women's Wellbeing workshops and resources on my website here.
Connect with 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
Visit Anna's website: annamathur.com
Connect with Anna on Instagram
Listen to Anna's podcast: The Therapy Edit
Get Anna's book: How to Stop Snapping at the People You Love (As Well As the Ones You Don't)
Listen to Kate's previous conversation with Anna 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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