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7 Incredibly Helpful Resources for Parents with an ADHD Child

If you’re raising a child with ADHD, you already know it’s not about trying harder, it’s about understanding differently. Parenting a neurodivergent child can be equal parts love, chaos, creativity, and exhaustion. You’re constantly juggling your child’s emotions, energy, and needs often while trying to calm your own nervous system.
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Women with ADHD

7 Things You Need to Understand About Hormones and ADHD in Women

Why We Need To Talk More About Hormones And ADHD In Women The experience of women with ADHD has long been misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or completely overlooked. And hormones are one of the biggest areas that need more research for women with ADHD to get the care they need throughout their lifespan.
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How to Live with Anxiety and Thrive

Anxiety is part of being human. It is the emotional response to the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (4 Fs) response. While the 4 Fs are a physiological response to real or perceived danger, anxiety is the emotional response to real or perceived danger. Many are biologically predisposed to different forms of anxiety, but that doesn’t mean you have no control over it. So what if the goal isn’t to erase anxiety, but to live with it and thrive?
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5 Reasons Your Child Loves You Being A Parent With ADHD

Being a parent with ADHD is definitely challenging to say the least. But there is an upside because you also bring many unique and wonderful attributes to the table. Yes, you probably forget to sign a few permission slips, or struggle to figure out what is being said at a PTA meeting, or maybe forget to order an occasional birthday cake for your child’s party, but you also bring a lot of love, curiosity, and adventure.
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ADHD Mom Burnout

All moms, dads, and parents, can experience burnout when it comes to the role of parenting. But for moms with ADHD, the daily load can feel impossible to manage. The endless cycle of parenting tasks, executive dysfunction, sensory overload, masking, emotional dysregulation, societal pressures, and sometimes unequal division of household and parenting duties create the perfect storm for ADHD mom burnout.
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Discovering ADHD Across Generations For New Moms* And Their Mothers

There is actually a “becoming” a new mother or a transformation of identity when one becomes a mother. And if you have recently received a diagnosis of ADHD, you are beginning your journey of understanding how living with undiagnosed ADHD has impacted you. This includes learning how your brain works, and celebrating the beauty of your unique strengths because you have ADHD. Both include grief, exploration, education, compassion, and letting go. A common theme I see with my clients when navigating both motherhood and their diagnosis is a discovery of ...
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