Better Late than Never

Journalist Emma Mahony and Broadcaster Clare Catford look back at the close of October ADHD awareness month and talk about how to have a “Medication Vacation” following yesterday’s piece in the Sunday Times – detailing how roughly 200,000 patients are experiencing a shortage in their ADHD medication supply, which could last till Christmas. GPs have… Continue reading A...

In this episode of the ADHD Post-Lockdown diaries, author and educator Emma Mahony and broadcaster and journalist Clare Catford explore their shared view of physician Gabor Maté’s theories about ADHD, which he himself has and two of his children. Despite this, he argues that it is not hereditary but the result of early trauma and… Continue reading Attunement Deficit Disorder? Gabor Mat...

Author, journalist and teacher Emma Mahony along with broadcaster and media consultant Clare Catford discuss during new(ish) year resolutions and how helpful dangling year-long intentions are in front of an ADHDer’s brain.

This ADHD Awareness month, Author and Teacher Emma Mahony and Broadcaster and Podcaster Clare Catford encourage ADHD-ers to follow their gut and take a risk, after years of feeling “wrong” in a neuro-typical world. How risk-taking can be a strength of an ADHD diagnosis, not a curse. As Clare demonstrates while protesting on behalf of… Continue reading Taking a Risk – ADHD P...

On the eve of travelling up to the ADHD Foundation conference, author Emma Mahony and broadcaster Clare Catford explore the different reactions to their parents dying recently and ask whether it is “me or the ADHD”?

Author Emma Mahony and Broadcaster Clare Catford explore this little known aspect of ADHD where sufferers are more sensitive than others to criticism, perhaps because, by the age of 12, ADHDers receive up to 20,000 more negative comments about themselves than other children. So what effect does RSD have on friendships, relationships and self-esteem?

How great that the internet offers a chance to review your 2020 intentions to see how you are doing, while setting a course for a new year. Aiming for calm, creating chaos. Broadcaster Clare Catford and journalist Emma Mahony do just that, while reminding ADHDers everywhere that they are not alone with this struggle.

At the beginning of October’s ADHD Awareness month, we posted this podcast to remind people that there’s no shame in asking for help if you have this complex neuro-developmental disorder. In fact, we believe it can be key to making your life, career and relationships a success, so try making it a habit. All too… Continue reading ADHD Post-Lockdown diaries: Asking for Help &#...

Emma Mahony in discussion with Clare Catford on how taking medication for ADHD improves their ability to function in a neurotypical world.

Thanks to LinaBellina for the interview on Teacher Hug Radio – sharing tips on keeping sane while being a teacher.

Now we are all allowed to get out and about a bit more, Author Emma Mahony and Broadcaster Clare Catford discuss their top tips for keeping in good nick with ADHD, including escaping into green spaces, exercise and sea-swimming

More taboo than death these days, Journalist Emma Mahony and Broadcaster Clare Catford discuss how having ADHD affects your attitude to money, and what you can do to help yourself

Author Emma Mahony and Broadcaster Clare Catford reflect on their multiple careers and the hirings and firings which go hand in hand with an ADHD diagnosis. Can such a ton of job experiences be a good thing?

Author Emma Mahony and journalist Clare Catford ignore Brexit and Covid to offer their three positive intentions for this New Year. So, what would yours be?

Emma Mahony talks about how spiritual beliefs can help greatly in managing ADHD with journalist Clare Catford, ADHDer and presenter of many BBC radio programmes on faith.

Historically steeped in the work of the Mutoid Waste Company, the artist Giles Walker has produced something important and visionary in his jaw-dropping work “Monster”. After two years beating waste metal and sewing scrap material onto animatronic mannequins in his Brixton workshop, this hauntingly immersive experience is both disturbing and beautiful. The moving characters spout… Continue r...

Following the launch of Emma Mahony’s book Better Late Than Never about ADHD late diagnosis, and the tricky interview on Woman’s Hour with Jane Garvey, we are joined by journalist Clare Catford to discuss the differences between men and women’s experience, particularly in the light of the broadcaster Adrian Chiles’ podcast in the Guardian .

In this final ADHD Lockdown 1 diary, Clarissa Vorfeld offers a Swiss view from across the channel of the new normal with Covid-19 restrictions lifted, while Emma Mahony talks to Dr Jude Smith Rachele in the US about the need to slow down to examine the impace of the  #BlackLivesMatter protests.

Here are some memories of VE day from my parents, now 86, remembering the celebrations in their respective towns of Fowey in Cornwall where my grandfather (pictured) was buried in 1944 and Dewsbury in Yorkshire.

As Clarissa gives the timescale for Switzerland coming out of Lockdown, Emma feels hope is on the horizon for the UK as the pandemic plateaus. Andrew St Clair joins from urban Spain to report on easing off there, while Paul Richardson in rural Spain discusses music as solace during isolation, and plays us out with… Continue reading The ADHD Lockdown Diaries – Day 25 →

Clarissa prepares for the easing of Lockdown with hairsalons in Switzerland, while Emma talks to founding director of the prison charity Fine Cell Work about how they are keeping prisoners occupied and paid with bonuses in their cells – a lesson for us all in mental health.

Emma in the UK loves 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore walking a 100 laps of his garden before his birthday, and raising over £7m for the NHS, while Clarissa in Switzerland welcomes the reopening of schools in Denmark, and talks to Now Teacher Anne-Marie Lawlor about how well Education is faring under lockdown.

Clarissa in Switzerland talks Easter memories of chocolate bunnies in face masks, while Emma finds fresh air in abundance after councils clear streets of cars so people can exercise. Welcoming Environmentalist Matt Mellen of Ecohustler to suggest One Good Thing we can do after Lockdown to breathe better #climatechange.

Clarissa has found great stories of Covid-19 progress in Switzerland with CERN inventions and #VersusVirus ideas, and Emma is celebrating all things good in the environment as we head into the Easter Break. Just 15 minutes of all the positive news we can muster. Happy Easter!

Emma tells how the nation is #prayingforBoris and how nature is benefitting from the great global slowdown, while Clarissa reports on the first virtual wedding in Switzerland. Guest Agronomist and Master Baker Nacho Trives in Spain offers tips to bake the perfect loaf.