Awaken ADHD

Trigger Warning: disordered eating content.  I love this episode, I hope you will too. This episode we I chat with Erin Murnane, an Accredited Practising Dietitian and body image coach with over 12 years’ experience in Australia and the UK. As an ADHDer herself, she’s on a mission to help women stop binge eating, ditch food guilt, and finally feel calm and in control around food. After years...

In this episode of Awaken ADHD , Tobias honestly shares his journey living with undiagnosed ADHD and the impact it has had on his relationships, work, and understanding of self. We explore the challenges of hyperfocus, emotional masking, and the pressure many men feel to hide their feelings. From skydiving to freediving, Tobias has spent his life chasing calm through chaos. What started as thrill-...

In this wonderfully honest and engaging episode Jade hears from a passionate high school teacher. Grace  was labelled “fussy,” “bossy,” and “too much” as a child. After a little nudge from a close friend, at 28, she was diagnosed with ADHD, and everything changed.  “Because of how people perceived me, that became my perception of myself.” Grace shares her powerful story of shame, identit...

As Promised, this episode features a special guest and self described friend of the neurodivergent community, the one and only, Brigitte Jarvis.  She's a massage therapist, storyteller, actor, self-produced writer, she has written and produced over 20 projects, earning multiple awards including Best Stage Adaptation, Best Actress twice, and Best Sketch Comedy.  This episode is for the ne...

Reclaiming Your Rhythm:  The Philosophy of Un-Coaching Welcome to another episode of Awaken ADHD. If traditional self-help feels like it was made for someone else, this episode is for you.  In this episode, Neurodivergent counsellor, Jade, introduces Un-Coaching:  a gentler, more honest approach to growth that honors your actual rhythm, not someone else’s timeline. We talk about bre...

In these mini relationship episodes we'll explore common relationship conflict patterns that emerge with neurodivergent and neurotypical couples. These patterns are often more destructive when ADHD is either undiagnosed or not understood.  In this episode we'll look at how Rejection Sensitivity can show up and create chaos. Or at the very least, cause hurt, misunderstandings and hyperviggilan...

In this episode I chat with Ale Wiecek Rojo, a visionary leader, author, podcast host, renowned speaker,  the  founder of Sqr One, an online education platform, and is passionately committed to empowering purpose-driven entrepreneurs and burnt-out creatives to find their inner wisdom, align their purpose with their business, and make a positive impact on society by addressing systemic in...

In this episode your host, Jade, will share some insights and strategies surrounding emotional regulation and the role it plays in ADHD. We'll  look at some of the ways dysregulation (or lack of control over emotions) impacts your life and some of the strategies for self soothing. 

In this episode Jade and Rachael introduce their Parents of Neurodivergent Kids Support Program and share their personal experiences as parents of neurosparkly kids and professional insights as mental health professionals. It’s like parenting in hard mode and if you’re not careful, burnout is inevitable. They talk about how integral it is to have well practised self-care strategies along-side a bi...

In this honest and fascinating episode of Awaken ADHD I speak with a dear friend and colleague about the journey to her ADHD diagnosis.  Siti is a Psychologist and Sensorimotor Art Therapist. She tells us that there were a couple of years between her online ADHD self survey to her formal ADHD diagnosis. During that time Siti moved, with her husband and 3 children, from a a busy Melbourne life...

In these mini episodes we will explore the ways in which ADHD can show up in relationship and can often be destructive and cause conflict if not understood.  In this episode I will look at the common experience of half listening or half hearing and how it can be understood and supported within all our relationships.  You know when you zone out of a conversation, or get stuck on the first...

This episode is filled with depth and vulnerability. Cameron's story is one of depression, overwhelm and confronting self reflection. "I'm either having a wave crashing over me and I can't do anything, or I'm in between the waves and I can get things done."  They share their experience of  not  being diagnosed earlier because of the structure and routine and learnt behaviour of 'hol...

In these mini episodes we’ll explore common relationship conflict patterns that emerge within neurodivergent and neurotypical couples. These patterns tend to be more disruptive when ADHD is either undiagnosed or not understood.  In this first mini episode we'll look and the 'parent-child' dynamic that can emerge within a couple and how it can cause conflict and build resentment.  As well...

In this episode we hear from Amy, a social worker student, currently working in a support program at the children’s court and mother of two young boys. She shares her journey to diagnosis, at the age of 38, through resonating with other women’s stories on social media. During her lightbulb moment, she thought to herself “Oh my god, I’m am like text book ADHD.” Having struggled with anxiety and ins...

In this lighthearted yet insightful episode, we chat with ‘neuro-spicy’ Teagan, a legal analyst and law student that may or may not learn to play the hurdy-gurdy! Teagan recalls when she first shared with her psychologist that her inability to action things in life was crippling.  Challenging the ADHD  misconceptions, she reflects that she now understands that for her the  busyness...

Amber runs a successful design and strategy agency in Melbourne. She began her journey into the neurodivergent world about 5 years ago when her son was diagnosed with ADHD. Amber reflects upon the difficulty of having her experience of ADHD recognised by both peers and professionals due to her perceived 'high functioning' and successful professional life.  Her tenacious nature drove her to se...

Rachael is social worker, fertility and post partum doula/counsellor and a mother of three children, two of which are neurodivergent. These recent  diagnoses mark a whole new chapter in this family's life. When her son started to notice his 'deficits', she knew that he needed extra support. Rachael talks about coming to terms with the additional challenges her family face and balancing her ca...

Amanda always knew she was different, though she kept that to herself. It wasn't until her daughter was diagnosed in grade 2 that she started to join the dots and her 'difference' began to make sense. "It was a very difficult time for me". Now Amanda is a proud neurodivergent individual, and the mother of two fabulous neurodivergent kids.  Having been through this journey Amanda is now a pass...

Host Jade shares her own Awaken ADHD story when she was diagnosed with ADHD at 44years. This late diagnosis had her look back over her  life through an entirely new lens. Jade talks about how women present differently and the need to challenge the diagnostic tools to capture these differences. 

Welcome to a new ADHD community!  Do you think you might have ADHD? Maybe you've just been recently diagnosed. Or perhaps someone you love has been. Or maybe you were diagnosed a long time ago and just love to feel connected to other neurodiversity individuals.  Your host , Jade, is a counsellor, relationship therapist and ADHD coach. She'll be be joined each episode by fellow ADHD'ers a...