Regulating Your Nervous System as a Woman with ADHD

There’s something that's not talked about enough in the ADHD space, especially for women.

The need to regulate your nervous system.

And I do mean NEED!

When you've gone your whole life trying to function in societal frameworks that weren't made for your brain or body, it's like living full throttle all…the…time (Even when full throttle is internal and looks like lack of action on the outside).

As women with ADHD we have to think harder, strategize, mask, and compensate just to survive. Not to mention the fact that we're often responsible for the needs of others on top of our own.

Pair all of that with ever changing hormones and you've got a nervous system on constant high alert which takes its toll mentally and physically. 

After all, high alert is a survival mode and is meant to be an occasional setting, not a way of life.