S1 E45 ADHD Women & Major Life Changes | Why Your Brain Needs Time to Catch Up
About this episode
Jess and Jeannine discuss the impact of major life changes on ADHD women and the need for mental adaptation.
Major life changes don’t just affect your routines they can disrupt the invisible systems your ADHD brain has spent years building. In this episode, Jess and Jeannine explore why transitions like moving, divorce, becoming an empty nester, or receiving an ADHD diagnosis later in life can leave ADHD women feeling frustrated, disoriented, and mentally drained. They discuss environmental memory, executive function, decision fatigue, grief, and why your brain needs time to adapt when life changes. Chapters 00:00 ADHD Women & Major Life Changes: When Your Brain Is Still Using the Old Map 01:21 The Hidden Systems ADHD Women Build Without Realizing It 06:02 Why Grief Is More Than Sadness: Expectation vs. Reality 09:01 The Grieving Brain, ADHD, and Why Change Feels So Hard 13:16 Neural Pathways, Glimmers, and Letting Go of the Old Map 15:35 ADHD Autopilot, Executive Function & The Cost of Starting Over 20:06 Building a New Normal and Finding Your Way Forward
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