Accepting and learning to regulate our big emotions

This week’s guest is Dr Tamara Rosier, author of one of my favourite ADHD books, Your Brain's Not Broken.

Tamara has been a college administrator, a professor, a leadership consultant, a high school teacher, a national public speaker, and an ADHD coach. Through those adventures, Dr Rosier has developed valuable insight into ADHD and how it affects one’s life. As founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, she helps individuals, parents, and families develop an understanding and learn effective skills to live with ADHD effectively. Her book, Your Brain’s Not Broken, provides strategies for navigating the powerful big emotional aspect of ADHD in a healthy way. 

During this week's episode, we spoke about 

Our big emotions, being embarrassed and the shame we have around our emotional regulationHow to regulate our overwhelming emotionsPrefrontal cortex 'butler' - how it calms and helps with sequencingLimbic centre being our anger, frustration controller'Living on the grid' - four quadrants, solve it gridBurnout from constantly being in the red zoneMaking intentional choices to help our health and stress management. Such as diary management, delegating our butler tasks and borrowing people’s butler (neuro typical) brainsLearning not to cram and live fueled by adrenaline and cortisolThe importance of prioritising deep cleansing sleep Sleep is so important for our health - ADHD symptoms are exacerbated when we don't sleep enough. Learning to relax and transition from a busy day to downtime and sleep.

You can connect with Dr Rosier via her website, miadhd.com or her Instagram account. 

The quadrant that Dr Rosier references within the episode.

Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner helping overwhelmed yet unfulfilled (many with ADHD like her) women find more calm, balance, health, compassion, creativity and clarity in their lives. 

Kate's new membership, The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Collective is now officially OPEN! To read more and join, click here!

By using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/tapping) in her coaching practice, Kate guides more ADHD women to rediscover their inner voice, 'tap' into their expansive wisdom and potential, fulfil their desires and realise themselves outside of the overwhelm, inner pressure and family dynamic. She is also a mum to four children and will shortly be writing her first book!

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Have a read of Kate’s articles in ADDitude magazine...