Dr B's Musings & Living Beyond ADHD Podcast
Ever replayed a text message for three days over a single missing exclamation point? That's not "being too sensitive" — it might be Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, an intense emotional response to real or perceived rejection that's common in ADHD brains.
In this episode, DrB names the wound nob...
The Season One finale. After twelve weeks of truth-telling, skill-building, and identity work — DrB paints the full picture. What does life actually look like when the pre-skills are built, the executive function skills are integrated, the shame spiral is dismantled, and the old identity is rep...
ADHD doesn't stay contained to the person who has it. It ripples through every relationship — with partners, friends, family, employers.
In this honest, compassionate episode, DrB looks directly at how ADHD shows up in relationships (inconsistency, forgotten commitments, emotional intensity, h...
The ADHD symptom that affects every relationship, every workplace moment, every day — and almost never makes it into the mainstream conversation. Emotional dysregulation is not being "too sensitive." It's a neurological reality: a brain with compromised emotional brakes, flooding with intensity...
Who told you who you are? For most adults with ADHD, the answer is: other people. Teachers, parents, partners, report cards, diagnoses. In this deeply personal episode, DrB examines how ADHD identity gets constructed from negative reflections, what living inside a broken identity actually costs...
The drawer of half-started projects. The course you paid for and never finished. The business idea that burned bright for three weeks and then vanished. Sound familiar? In this episode, DrB takes apart the start/finish problem at the neurological level — explaining why task initiation is hard (...
Episode Description
"You're always late." "How did you forget — it was TODAY." Adults with ADHD hear these sentences constantly — and have spent years unable to explain the experience underneath them. This episode names it: time blindness. DrB explains the neurological reality of how ADHD bra...
Beneath the disorganization, the unfinished projects, the chronic lateness, and the avoidance — there is almost always shame. In this episode, DrB goes straight to the root. She explains the difference between guilt and shame, traces where ADHD shame comes from, breaks down the mechanics of the...
DrB's most provocative episode — and one of the most important. She is not anti-medication, and she makes that clear. But she will not pretend that medication is enough. This episode draws a definitive line between what medication can do (create a window, reduce static, improve focus) and what ...
In this foundational episode, DrB delivers the message that sits at the heart of everything she teaches: it is not your fault — and you are 100% responsible for what happens next. These two truths are not a contradiction. Together, they are the most liberating framework an adult with ADHD can i...
