Deep Dive ADHD Stop 1: Tell Your Story
May 2025
Happy Spring! It feels so good to say that and to look out my window at the blooming azaleas and the baby bunnies munching on grass, and my garden, the flower buds emerging as the ground warms up. Spring, for me, has brought both a burst of creativity and some endings on the horizon.
How about you? What is ready to emerge in your life this season?
For so many women who have identified ADHD later in life, understanding that their brain is wired differently provides the opportunity for new life to emerge in a way that may not have felt possible before.
Maybe grief and hopefulness are co-mingling.
Grief that life has been a struggle. You have been working so hard to keep all the balls in the air and spending so much energy masking. Maybe anxiety, rejection sensitivity, perfectionism, and people pleasing have been part of your life.
And yet, hopefulness that, with a new understanding of your brain, new choices and agency are possible.
For the next few months in this space I’m going to lay out one possible road map for moving through the grief and into a life of flourishing.
If there is someone you know who might be going through the process of identifying or seeking diagnosis for ADHD, please invite them to come along. They can sign up for my emails here.
Our first stop: The Big Picture - Your Story
It’s hard to move forward without acknowledging and allowing what has been. I invite you to begin your journey to flourishing by telling your story and letting the light flood over it. Gazing back at your life with the knowledge that you have always had a brain that was wired differently. That might be through journaling, with a counselor, coach or a trusted group of friends committed to listening deeply.
Our brains love to make meaning out of story, often the things that come up as we share our story show us the way forward into greater connection and acceptance of who we were, who we are and who we are ready to become.
What I find most fascinating about telling our stories is that they change over time depending on the lens we are looking through. If I had told my story 5 years ago it would have been filled with episodes of deep disappointment and resentment of things that had happened to me. Today, I’m able to see the same episodes through a different lens and can tell a story filled with gratitude for the hard things that shaped who I am. The knowledge of my ADHD allows me to have so much compassion for the younger me who was doing the best she could with one hand tied behind her back!
What about you?
How does the new knowledge of how your brain is wired change how you see your story?
Maybe you’ve done something like this before, which facets of your story come into greater clarity and focus this time?
Who might be a trusted person or people to listen with empathy?
If you choose to write in a journal, how might you offer compassion to your younger self?
Thanks for going on this journey with me! Until next time…
PS The road map that I’ll be sharing comes from my 8-month, coaching program, “Deep Dive ADHD”. A combination of 1:1 coaching, journal prompts, and personalized book and media suggestions designed for you to walk away with a deeper sense of who you are under all the masks, and a life aligned with that true, beautiful, sparkly, compassionate YOU ready to flourish.
What I’m Reading/Listening to/Watching
The Choice by Edith Eger
I read this book a long time ago but I just love it so much and it speaks to the power of stories in our lives. The Choice by Edith Eger https://dreditheger.com/the-choice/
From the gorgeous people at my Coaching Program, Awaken Coach Institute. This podcast was a gem on a topic that I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, What’s the difference between therapy and coaching and how both can support your mental health. Good Stuff
Additude Magazine webinars have been on fire this month. I found this one on AuADHD burnout particularly valuable.
https://www.additudemag.com/webinar/autistic-burnout-adhd-masking/
https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-masking-signs-consequences-solutions/
https://www.additudemag.com/how-to-recover-from-burnout-women-adhd/
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