80: Why Is ADHD So Hard? What Regulation Can Change About Your Symptoms

You keep wondering why ADHD is so hard when everyone around you makes it look like a simple brain difference, and you're tired of wondering if you're just bad at life. If you've spent years blaming your executive functioning for the overwhelm, the procrastination, and the freeze, this episode is for you.

I'm an ADHD therapist who has ADHD, and after working with well over 1,200 people, I've seen that much of what gets called ADHD is a nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight. I walk through how hypervigilance, defensiveness, people-pleasing, and ADHD paralysis all come from the same place, and what changes when your body finally feels safe enough to let your brain do its job.

Join my free workshop, Why Is My ADHD So Hard?, on October 20th. Grab your spot here. https://jennafree.com/free-workshop

01:05 – Why ADHD Feels Overwhelming and Challenging

11:01 – ADHD Paralysis Explained as Fight, Flight, or Freeze

12:06 – Avoidance, Procrastination, and Stress in ADHD

08:27 – People Pleasing, Boundaries, and the Fawn Response

20:02 – The Benefits of Regulation for Executive Functioning

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