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A Soft Landing for the Stories We Were Never Taught to Tell: Understanding ADHD in Women ADHD has long been framed as a "boy’s disorder"—loud, impulsive, and disruptive. This narrow lens has left countless women misdiagnosed, misunderstood, or completely invisible. When ADHD shows up in girls and women, it often wears a quieter costume: daydreaming, perfectionism, and emotional overwhelm. Because these traits don’t scream for attention, they’re often dismissed as personality

https://writingsofafuriouswoman.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/be-a-lady-they-said/?fbclid=IwAR0a2ll58XkP-ys9b_69z-svOLkAC3DUacamb5tDXUgDrb_fYfTmn3Z4mPg Take time to go to read the above writing by Camille Rainville. Below is my reaction. I would love to hear yours. Just reading this is exhausting. And, oh so familiar. It hits home for me, given what I have endured for the majority of my past. So many women have. It is overwhelming, confusing, insidious, and disconnecting, and cre

Owning who you are can be nerve-racking for some and genuinely risky for others. Even if you feel like you can't own who you are safely in all aspects of your life, find a space where you can tell your truths. You owe it to yourself. No one deserves to be muted, bullied, talked down to, confused, or ridiculed for being themselves. Learn tools to create a space and life that can integrate around who you are rather than you working around others' needs of who you are. This is y

By Sarah Jurrens M.Edu., LPC, LMHC, ADHD-CCSP, CCTP “When we bury our feelings, we bury who we are. Because of childhood emotional trauma, we may have learned to hide parts of ourselves. At the time, that may have helped us. But as adults, we need our feelings to tell us who we are and what we want, and to guide us toward becoming the people we want to be.” (Brandt, 2017) Trauma from childhood can impact your life as an adult. Here are several ways you can lose touch with who