Dr B's Musings & Living Beyond ADHD Podcast
Episode Description
Ever followed the directions perfectly and still not gotten the result? In this episode, DrB explains pre-skills: the skills you need before you can build the skills you want. She walks through the three that matter most: managing yourself in time, banishing procrastination...
You know what to do, so why can't you do it? In this extended episode, DrB explains why limiting beliefs and outdated identities get in the way of every skill you try to build, and why they come before pre-skills and executive function skills.
You'll learn how to put a limiting belief on the w...
Slept eight hours and still feel like you're running on empty? ADHD burnout is different from ordinary burnout — it's the cumulative cost of constantly compensating for a brain the world wasn't built around, and "just rest more" doesn't fix it.
DrB explains why ADHD burnout hits differently, h...
Can't start the task, or can't stop redoing it? Both get called laziness, but they're driven by opposite fears — and treating them the same way is why so many fixes don't stick.
DrB breaks down the real difference between ADHD procrastination and ADHD perfectionism, how the two feed each other...
Impulse buys at midnight. Bills that quietly turn into late fees. A banking app you haven't opened in weeks. If ADHD has ever made money feel like a moral test you keep failing, this episode is for you. DrB breaks down why ADHD brains struggle with money — dopamine, time blindness, working memo...
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...
