If you've ever eaten the same meal every single day for three weeks and genuinely loved every bite, and then suddenly couldn't look at it ever again, this episode is for you.

This week we are getting into something that doesn't get talked about enough in ADHD spaces: food. Not in a diet culture way, not in a wellness way, in a why have I ordered the exact same thing from this restaurant fourteen times and felt zero shame about it kind of way.

Because the ADHD relationship with food is its own thing entirely. The hyperfixations that take over your entire personality for a month. The safe foods you return to when your brain has nothing left. The forgetting to eat until your blood sugar crashes and suddenly every emotion you own arrives at once. The specific paralysis of standing in front of a full fridge and genuinely being unable to decide what to eat. The way a favourite food can go from the only thing you want to completely repulsive overnight with absolutely no warning.

It's chaotic. It's neurological. And it turns out it makes a lot more sense when you understand how the ADHD brain actually works.

In this episode:

• What food hyperfixations actually are and why the ADHD brain keeps returning to the same things
• The safe food list — what yours says about you and why the grief when a safe food stops working is completely real
• Forgetting to eat and then eating everything — the blood sugar crash spiral and why it keeps happening
• Decision fatigue and food — why a full fridge can feel more overwhelming than an empty one
• The dopamine hit of food and why ADHD brains are especially wired to seek it
• Beige food, sensory sensitivity and why certain textures and foods feel genuinely unbearable
• The restaurant order thing — why so many ADHDers find one thing they love on a menu and never order anything else ever again
• ADHD medication and appetite — what actually happens and how to work around it
• The chaos of food shopping with ADHD — buying seventeen ingredients for a recipe and then ordering a takeaway anyway

This is not a nutrition episode. We are not here to tell you what to eat. We are just two women with ADHD comparing notes on the most unhinged food habits we have and figuring out why our brains work this way.

Chaotic, honest, and very relatable — especially if your current hyperfixation meal is getting slightly out of hand.

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Is ADHD actually a disorder — or is it a brain that evolved for a completely different world?

In our first ever guest episode, we sit down with Dr. Alex Curmi — psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and host of The Thinking Mind podcast — for one of the most eye-opening conversations we've ever had on this show.

We get into evolutionary psychology, why the ADHD brain may have been an extraordinary advantage in hunter-gatherer times, and why modern life — think open-plan offices, smartphones, TikTok, and 9-5 schedules — is essentially kryptonite for the way our brains are wired.

But this episode goes way beyond the theory. Dr. Alex gets into the stuff that actually affects our day-to-day lives: why so many women aren't diagnosed until their thirties or forties, why medication alone isn't enough, and the specific, practical interventions that can genuinely help with the ADHD symptoms that nobody talks about enough — impulsive spending, emotional dysregulation, and rejection sensitive dysphoria.

In this episode:

• What evolutionary psychology actually is and why it changes how you see your ADHD brain
• The hunter-gatherer theory — why ADHD traits that feel like problems today may have been survival superpowers
• Why smartphones and social media actively make ADHD symptoms worse (neurologically, not just in a "phones bad" way)
• The real reason so many women are diagnosed late — and what gets missed
• Why ADHD is a spectrum and what severe ADHD actually looks like day-to-day
• The overdiagnosis vs. underdiagnosis debate — Dr. Alex's honest, nuanced take
• Why medication is just one piece of the puzzle and what else needs to happen
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques for emotional regulation and RSD — explained simply and actually usefully
• The journaling technique Dr. Alex uses with patients to rewire impulsive spending habits
• How to structure your life and career around your ADHD strengths rather than constantly fighting your weaknesses
• Where to start if you're struggling and don't know what to do next

Dr. Alex's take-home message: You don't have to stay stuck. Start with the simple stuff — sleep, exercise, cutting back on overstimulating tech. Try the strategies. And if you've tried a lot by yourself and you still need more support, reach out to a professional. But don't let your problems just simmer.

We are not medical professionals — we are just two women with ADHD having the conversations we wish someone had with us sooner. Dr. Alex is the expert in the room and this one is genuinely worth listening to twice.

Find Dr. Alex Curmi:🎙️ The Thinking Mind Podcast — available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube📱 Alex Curmi Therapy

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We just got back from six nights at Kala Festival in Albania, and we are feeling it. When you have ADHD, that kind of exhaustion hits ten times harder than it does for anyone else — and honestly, it felt like the perfect time to record this episode.

This is our ADHD Girls Guide to Making Life Easier — and we want to be really clear about what this is not. It's not a self-improvement episode. We're not going to tell you to colour-code your kitchen cupboards, batch cook on a Sunday, or buy a beautiful planner you'll use for three days and then feel terrible about. We've all tried that. We know how it ends.

Instead, we're sharing the real, honest, sometimes completely unhinged strategies that have actually made our lives more manageable — the hacks that might look lazy or silly from the outside, but are genuinely clever adaptations for a neurodivergent brain. We're calling this a permission slip, because that's exactly what it is.

In this episode we cover ten practical tips including: why frozen and pre-cut veg is a game changer for reducing decision fatigue around cooking, how meal kit boxes like Gusto and HelloFresh remove the overwhelming mental load of planning and shopping, our "chuck-it bucket" method for tidying without the paralysis of having to put everything in exactly the right place, the in-your-shoe trick and visual cues for never forgetting things again, why uniform dressing and a capsule wardrobe can save your entire morning before it even goes wrong, the two-minute rule and how doing tiny tasks immediately stops them piling up into unbearable background noise, phone charging habits and screen time boundaries that actually protect your sleep and your focus the next day, body doubling for life admin — not just work and studying, how to automate your bills, groceries, prescriptions and more so you're making fewer exhausting decisions every single day, and why you need to stop apologising for the workarounds that make your life work.

We also get really honest about the shame that comes with having ADHD in a world that wasn't built for us — the guilt of forgetting the washing, losing your keys, leaving your laptop on a plane during a layover in Hong Kong, spending £200 in Tesco when you only went in for one thing — and why getting a diagnosis changed everything for both of us when it comes to finally understanding our brains.

If you have ADHD, suspect you might have ADHD, or just feel like the typical organisation advice has never once worked for you, this episode is for you. We hope it makes you feel a little less alone, a little less broken, and a lot more equipped to figure out what actually works for your brain.

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Are you ADHD, or are you just a mess? (We're both, apparently.) This week we're getting into one of the most important conversations in the ADHD space right now — why social media has made it so hard to know what's real, what's accurate, and what's just the algorithm doing its thing.

We talk about the actual clinical difference between ADHD traits and ADHD impairment, why women are so often missed or misdiagnosed, the very real problem of ADHD baiting on TikTok, why 75% of social media ADHD content isn't clinically accurate, and the uncomfortable truth about when ADHD becomes an excuse rather than an explanation.

Whether you're diagnosed, questioning, or just doom-scrolling content that makes you feel seen — this one's for you.

In this episode:

• What actually separates ADHD from just being a bit forgetful or chaotic
• Why women are diagnosed so much later — and how hormones and masking play into it
• ADHD baiting: what it is and why it's more harmful than you think
• How to consume ADHD content on TikTok without self-diagnosing off a 30-second reel
• The difference between ADHD as an explanation vs. ADHD as an excuse
• Why not replying to that text for a week isn't always just your ADHD

Hold On, What Was I Saying? is the podcast for women with ADHD — honest, unfiltered, and never taking itself too seriously.

Welcome back to ADHD Girls' Guide! This week we're throwing open the doors on something we know every ADHD girlie has — the Shame Shed. Whether it's an actual box on top of your wardrobe or a loft full of bamboo straws from a business that never quite launched, we're talking about all the hobbies, projects and hyperfixations we started with absolute fire... and quietly abandoned.

From DJ decks and crochet to Bob Ross oil painting, Duolingo guilt-trips and failed lockdown gardens, we're getting into why the ADHD brain is wired for novelty-seeking, what the shame around "not finishing things" is really about, and how to actually make peace with it.

We also talk about body doubling, breaking the honeymoon phase, and why not everything needs to be monetised — sometimes a hobby is just allowed to be a hobby.

In this episode:

• Our most chaotic "shame shed" confessions
• Why ADHD brains hyperfocus, then drop things — and what's actually going on
• The lockdown hobby spiral we all went through
• How to tell the difference between a hyperfixation and something worth sticking to
• Building structure to survive past the honeymoon phase
• Why starting things is actually really brave

Honest, chaotic and (hopefully) a little healing. You are not lazy. You are not inconsistent. You just have a very enthusiastic brain.

ADHD and money — two things that genuinely don't mix well. In this episode, we get brutally honest about our worst money moments (a £2,000 Pilates course Emily never completed, anyone?), why ADHD brains treat every pay cheque like free money, and the 10 rules that have actually helped them get a grip on their finances.

No financial jargon. No judgment. Just two women with ADHD sharing the systems that work for brains like ours — because future you who wakes up suddenly organised and on top of a spreadsheet? She's not coming.

In this episode:

• Why ADHD brains impulse buy (hint: it's dopamine, not stupidity)
• The credit card rule every ADHDer needs to hear
• How to use AI to budget your salary in minutes
• Why Monzo might actually be the best tool for ADHD money management
• The "fill the basket, don't buy the basket" trick that saves hundreds
• Why you need to stop waiting for Future You

Whether you've ever spent your entire salary in the first week, forgotten to cancel a free trial for 7 months, or genuinely thought a refund counted as free money, this one's for you.

We are not financial advisors. We are just two girls with ADHD trying our best.

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This week we're getting into one of the biggest struggles for ADHDers; people pleasing and boundaries. We talk about the ADHD fawn response, why we say yes to plans we don't want to go to, the exhausting reality of being an empath (including making up entire sad backstories for strangers on the tube), and the pressure to be the "chill girl." We share personal stories... from staying in a 6-month situationship with someone who didn't want the same things, to inventing dying grandparents to get out of plans, to crying over bedroom curtains. Plus practical tips for setting boundaries when conflict makes you want to crawl out of your skin, how to spot the signs your boundaries need work, and why the right people will never ask you to abandon yourself to keep them comfortable. If you're someone who can't say no, ghosts difficult conversations, or feels responsible for everyone else's happiness — this one's for you.

It's 3am. You're staring at the ceiling, spiralling about a text you sent a month ago, convinced everyone hates you, and mentally planning a new life in Costa Rica. Sound familiar? This week Emily and Megan dedicate a full episode to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) — one of the most misunderstood and all-consuming parts of ADHD.

They cover what RSD actually is (and why it's different from just "being sensitive"), the fight-or-flight response that makes your brain treat a thumbs-up emoji like a five-alarm emergency, why so many people with ADHD spent years thinking they had paranoia, and practical tools for managing RSD day-to-day.

If you've ever felt like your reaction to rejection was completely out of proportion — you're not broken, and you're not alone.