Moving Past Guilt and Embracing Your ADHD Growth Journey

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between personal growth, guilt, and the nervous system, highlighting how these factors influence women's experiences and emotions.

In this week's More Yourself episode, we explore the connection between personal growth, guilt, and the nervous system and the impact this interaction can have. Many women carry guilt quietly in their bodies. It can show up as chronic illness, pain, and other physical sensations. Over time, these emotions can settle into the nervous system and begin shaping how safe or unsafe change feels. In this clip from a recent More Yourself episode, we explore how learning to notice the physical sensations in our bodies can help us understand what we’re holding onto, and where growth might be trying to emerge. In this episode, we explore: Why growth and change can feel activating for the nervous system How guilt can show up physically in the body The emotional weight many women carry without realising How guilt can quietly influence our decisions Why being a woman can add extra layers of expectation and pressure How to recognise the blocks that can appear when we start thinking about change How recognising sensations in the body can help release stuck emotions Creating space for new intentions, possibilities and directions This episode is a reminder that sometimes growth doesn't come from…

People in this episode

Host: Kate Moryoussef

Topics covered

• personal growth
• guilt
• nervous system
• emotional weight
• change
• women's health

Keywords

• ADHD
• growth journey
• chronic illness
• physical sensations
• emotions
• women's expectations
• change
• nervous system

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