Attempting Motherhood Samantha Johnson

Rose from Unschooling with PDA joined me for a wonderful chat. We talk about her motherhood story (TW: Intrusive thoughts 6:40-8:20), Leo's diagnosis story, and her own diagnosis story. She shared what brought them to unschooling / home education and she offered fantastic insight for those that may be curious about going down that path. There was also a very candid chat about managing your own capacity's as a neurodivergent parent to a neurodivergent child. Rose has her own ...

In this short, solo episode I talk about what matrescence is and how it effects us as we go through motherood. I reflect on my journey, having recently celebrated three years as a mother. If you relate to anything in this episode, please let me know. It would be wonderful to hear others' stories of their own matrescence journey. You can contact me on any of the social channels below: Thank you for listening!If you like this episode please share, rate, review, and subscribe...

Dr. Amy Joynt has a story similar to so many of us, she made it all the way to her late thirties without knowing she was ADHD. And once it was uncovered she was flooded with emotions. She took all of those emotions and experiences and created a wonderful self-guided journal to help other late diagnosed ADHD women process their experience. As I mention in the episode, the journal is part prompts and part memoir. It reads very much like sitting with a friend and having them say "this is my stor...

Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund is a Swedish researcher, physician, psychiatrist, and co-founder of LetterLife.Her book "ADHD Girls to Women: Getting on the Radar" was just released in English. It's available at all major book sellers and via audiobook. In this episode we talk about how women and girls are too often abandoned by their health care providers, diagnosed with ADHD years after their male counterparts, and struggle to find information and support for their many co-morbid conditi...

CW: We discuss Katherine's experience with Postnatal Anxiety from 18:50-21:30. Katherine, The Neurodiversity Mom, joined me for a chat about being a neurodivergent mom to neurodivergent kids. Her husband and her moved to Canada from South Africa when she was pregnant with their eldest, so we commiserated about parenting when you are without a village and managing our fluctuating capacities whilst managing our littles'. She has recently started home schooling her PDA son using The Good and Th...

If you're neurodivergent and don't already follow Tina (aka The ADHD Accountant) I cannot recommend it enough. As we discuss in the episode, the majority of financial advice out there is "typical". Meant for neurotypical people with neurotypical ways of thinking and spending. When we look at our neurodivergent brains (and especially if you're ADHD) most of that typical advice will not be easy to implement, will not take into account our struggles with executive functioning, or our potential i...