Do you ever feel like, even if you've been formally diagnosed with autism and ADHD, that you're somehow making it out to be worse than it actually is?

That you somehow, even though you waited for years and answered all the questions truthfully and all the forms and everything, that somehow you don't deserve your diagnosis?

You don't deserve potential support?

Episode 119 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD is a solo episode where I share some personal reflections (including my lived and professional experience) around caring for ourselves, our Selves and each other when the world seems inexplicably hostile to the idea of people denied a lifetime of support suddenly having potential access to that support.

Let me know what you think and what helps you own your diagnoses (even self-diagnoses).

le grá (with love),

Ev3

CHAPTERS

0:00 – Do I really deserve my autism and ADHD diagnosis?

2:50 – A new way to access support through Adventures

5:42 – Why increased diagnosis isn't the same as overdiagnosis

10:02 – Replacing self-doubt with self-compassion

13:02 – The FEEL. LOVE. HEAL. framework

14:41 – What rescue cats can teach us about accepting ourselves

17:25 – Finding the support your nervous system needs

19:08 – One small step you can take today

20:07 – Final grounding practice and reflection

LINKS

Kaelynn Partlow https://linktr.ee/kaelynn_vp

If you enjoyed this, check out:

Episode 44: Some of my own mental health journey

Episode 69: Will ADHD Meds Work for Me?

Episode 106: Su-Purr! Polyvagal Purrs evolution

Choose your own adventures: New adventures in the works including Inner Child Play, Stop Self Loathing, Move Past People Pleasing and Purpose, Meaning and Joy https://solestosoul.ie/adventures/

Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads

Welcome to ADHD Late Diagnosis and Writing with Flic Everett: Episode 118 of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham Podcast

It was such a delight to interview journalist and novelist Flic Everett. I’ve been aware of her writing long before I even became a freelance journalist in 2004 but we’ve been online friends for a good while and was inspired by her move to Scotland when feeling scared about my own move to Ireland a few years later.

In Late ADHD Diagnosis and Writing with Flic Everette: Episode 118 of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD, Flic shares her love for pottering and decorating, charity shop treasures, reading, hot baths, walks in nature, yoga, why her Inner Teenager wouldn’t want her wisdom and advice and more.

Do you think your Inner Teenager would listen to you?

le grá (with love),

Ev3

LINKS

Flic Everett

https://www.instagram.com/f.l.everett_author/

https://www.facebook.com/p/FLEverett-61551319733773/

Available in bookshops and libraries everywhere, you can also buy Flic’s books using this affiliate link https://amzn.to/3SGGEnE

If you enjoyed this, check out:

Episode 32: Author and podcast host, Joanne Mallon

Episode 47: Create your dopamenu

Episode 83: Community as self-care with Elizabeth Potts

Choose your own adventures: New adventures in the works including Inner Child Play, Stop Self Loathing, Move Past People Pleasing and Purpose, Meaning and Joy

https://solestosoul.ie/adventures/

Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introducing Flic Everett and finding your own version of self-care

03:30 From journalist to cosy crime novelist

09:32 Ideal self-care day of pottering, nature and simple pleasures

13:32 ADHD, creativity and the satisfaction of making things

15:46 Hot baths, thrillers and finding moments of calm

16:29 Nature, yoga and feeling part of something bigger

24:34 The importance of friendship and building community

31:06 Old friends, life lessons and being kinder to yourself

34:50 A grounding exercise to end the episode

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#readingasselfcare

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The feet are the most distal point from the brain, so anytime we’re working with the feet in yoga or giving yourself a massage, you’re kind of waking up the whole body, you’re treating your whole self. So just notice for yourself which of these things feel friendly to experiment with.

Welcome to episode 117 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD. Learn to love and care for all your parts from the soles of your feet to your soul. I’m Eve Menezes Cunningham and I’m your host and the producer and you can find out more, access older episodes, full transcripts, free resources, all sorts of things at solestosoul.ie. So that’s s-o-l-e-s-t-o-s-o-u-l.ie and there’ll be a link in the show notes.

In today’s episode, I’m talking about something I never thought I’d be talking about, feet.

When I rebranded at the beginning of this year, I’d been Feel Better Every Day for so long, selfcarecoaching.net, and Soles to Soul felt really appropriate because my approach is very grounded, it’s very embodied and it also works with the transpersonal and energy. So Soles to Soul, it kind of encompassed everything. And it also brought on a bit of a reckoning for me personally, where I’ve been awful to my own feet my entire life.

Now I understand more about sensory differences and AuDHD, I have more compassion for that, and I’ve actually been able to work with my feet, understanding that it’s harder for me than it might be for someone more neurotypical. Or other ADHDers, everyone has different sensory differences. But I remember as a teenager, my brother being like, chop them off already, because I used to moan about having feet so much.

But the learning to love and care for all our parts, from the soles of our feet to our souls meant I had to really connect with my own… It’s been HIDEOUS. And beyond heel-ing (geddit? Heel? Heal? Sorry not sorry).

I hope this episode will help you connect with your own feet and send them more love and care. Let me know how you’re getting on.

le grá (with love),

Ev3

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and why feet matter

01:13 From hating my feet to heeling my relationship with them

03:51 Shock breakthrough in yoga class

10:03 FEEL.: caring for your feet and your nervous system

14:45 LOVE.: accepting and appreciating your feet

17:01 HEAL.: standing tall and supporting others

19:03 Younger you, foetal (feet-al) position and feeling safe

22:53 Grounding practice: from the soles of your feet to your soul

LINKS

Choose your own adventures: https://solestosoul.ie/adventures/

If you enjoyed this, check out:

Episode 51: Reconnect with the earth and your Self

Episode 73: Befriending your Traumatised and ADHD Inner Child

Episode 82: Love Yourself, Warts and All

Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads