Your ADHD Besties - 23. "Why do birthdays cause so much RSD for ADHDers?" 🥳🧐

23. "Why do birthdays cause so much RSD for ADHDers?" 🥳🧐

09/11/24 • 58 min

BONJOUR cutest babes tuning in from what is now 126 countries! 🤯😘
On today's show:
- Tara makes a quick note about ADHD and hyper-empathy and then two seconds later laughs at Grace for getting rejected from the Reject Shop.
- We talk about the amazing PMDD discussion we had on our Instagram last week, with some really helpful examples of what PMDD might feel like, check out instagram for info about PMDD management and personal stories!
This week's DIVERGENT DILEMM:
• Are birthdays just an ADHD nightmare that are bound to end in RSD? We discuss love languages, how we feel about gifts and Tara gives a step-by-step for how to embrace your inner birthday diva 🕺

IREGGY SEGGY:
• This week's Ireggy Seggy is another who’s who of notes app crap and this time it’s YOUR notes. We're happy to report our listener-submitted notes are as delightfully unhinged and divine as we expected.
REC LINKS:
• Tara recommends the Clue app, track your period babes! There is an important link between dopamine and oestrogen and tracking can help us to feel more in control, especially if we have PMDD too 💜
• Grace recommends Popstar Academy: Katseye on Netflix. Docuseries ✅ Drama ✅ living out your Britney dreams ✅ what more do we have to say?
We’ll be back in your cute ears next THURSDAY (the third day)
Until then love love love always your ADHD besties,
👱🏻‍♀️ Grace & 👩🏻‍🦱 Tara xx
(Don't RSD bby)

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🤯 100K downloads?!! Come & celebrate with us on IG live!

BABESSSS! YOU DID IT! We just reached A HUNDRED THOUSAND downloads in 4 months for this podcast!!! Whaaat 🤯🤯😭😭 We're in disbelief and so so grateful to all of you.
Thank you so so much to everyone who has listened and sent us messages and love! It means more to us than you know ❤️🥹
We are going to do an 💃🏼 INSTAGRAM LIVE 💃🏼 livestream this weekend (6/7th September 2024) to celebrate. And we’d LOVE you to come hang with us 😍 Click here to convert to your timezone, or see our list below.
Bring your Ireggy Seggy 'would you rather' questions, divergent dilemmas and any other questions you have for us!
Join us for the 'IG live' on our Instagram @adhdbestiespodcast
Friday Sept 6th 2024
6pm PDT
7pm MDT
8pm CDT
9pm EDT
Sat Sept 7th 2024
2am BST (sorry guys 😴)
9am AWST
11am AEST
1pm NZST
See you soooon! (we can't wait!)
Love you with the fire of a thousand suns ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
Grace & Tara xxx
(and if you're reading this later and missed this IG live, remember... don't RSD!) 😘

Next Episode

24. "Help! Is it my ADHD or am I just bad at sleep?!" 😴

Hi beautiful ADHD babes!
On today's show:
- Grace tries relaxed parenting but gets piggy-bocked in the face, and Tara is forced to admit her STEM job from when she was 14 years old.
• Divergent Dilemma - A gorgeous listener called Ashara asks whether late night productivity and sleep issues are linked to ADHD.
Ooooofff, this is a biiig question!
We asked our audience whether they were night owls or early birds (worms?) and the results were (not very) surprising.
We talk about why the late night hours are so appealing for ADHDers and why decompressing at night is so important for our dysregulated nervous systems. Tara talks about the link between diet and sleep cycles for ADHDers and gives some helpful tips (more on eating in episodes 4, 8, 19 & 20) AND we hear from our listeners what sort of tasks are keeping you up late at night 👀.
• This week's Ireggy Seggy is a round of 'Who is more likely to...?'
We learn a lot about each other (eg. who is most likely to yell at bugs and who is most likely to send a snarky text) but mostly that Grace is mummy’s little ferret.
RECS:
• Grace recommends 'First we make the beast beautiful' by Sarah Wilson: the best book on anxiety she's ever read!
• Tara recommends non-photosynthesising plants (a.k.a good quality fake plants 🪴) 💜
Happy Thursday babes,
We’ll be back in your ears the same time next week!
Until then.
You KNOW what you can’t do (RSD)
Tara and Grace
xxx