Huge shoutout to our Top 5 members in Thriving ADHD Mompreneurs for May! 1️⃣ @Amanda Connell — leading the way with consistent support +20 2️⃣ @Cristal Vancarson — showing up and encouraging others +20 3️⃣ @Elaina Rice — contributing and connecting +10 4️⃣ @Sara Fredrick — supporting the community with care +10 5️⃣ @Wendy Venema — helping our village grow stronger +9 These are the women helping spread the compassionate culture of our community by: 💞 liking posts and comments 💬 posting, commenting, and replying 🌱 supporting other members ✨ making this space feel warm, helpful, and human I see you. I appreciate you. And I’m so grateful for the way you help make this community more than just another online space. And an extra special thank you to @Sara Fredrick and @Amanda Connell because they both made the Top 5 Members list in both of my communities — here and in Let AI Do It Lab™. I’m deeply grateful for your support, your presence, and the honor of being part of your journey. Let’s celebrate them all in the comments! 🎉

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Hey ADHD Life Simplified fam 👋 I'm Elaina, a Creative Growth Coach, author, comedian, and fellow human who has absolutely cried on a kitchen floor and called it a breakthrough. Rather than a breakdown. For years I was the high-functioning, people-pleasing, juggling-everything version of myself. From the outside it looked great. "Pinterest perfect." Inside I was completely depleted, ignoring every signal my body and mind were sending me, until one cold February morning I just... couldn't anymore. I wrote this book for anyone who has ever felt like the life they're living doesn't quite feel like theirs. Anyone who's burned out and wondered how will I heal from this? How do I come back to myself? In it I share the real stuff: the ignored signs, the quiet unraveling, a healing trip to Italy with my best friend that helped me breathe again, and the little mantra I built my recovery around — C.A.K.E. (Connecting Authentically with Kindness and Evolution). It was phrase that helped me find my way back to myself. It's a memoir, not a self-help checklist — more of a permission slip for you to reclaim your life. If any of this sounds familiar to you, I hope it helps you feel less alone. Happy to answer any questions or just connect — that's honestly my favorite part. 🎂 Elaina 💙 🧡 📖 You can grab it in paperback or eBook here: 👉 https://mentalfitnesstoday.com/safe-to-be-me-how-i-healed-traveled-and-transformed/ P.S. Thank you so much to @Katherine Lizardo for your support and encouragement to share my story! 🥰

Just because something feels harder than you thought it would… It doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. ❤️ Sometimes the thing we’re building takes more time, more support, more rest, more courage, and more tiny next steps than we expected. And for ADHD brains like ours...usually it takes 2x longer than others. That doesn’t make it a failure. It may simply mean the path is asking us to grow differently than we planned. 🥹 So if today feels messy, slow, emotional, or unfinished… Please remember this: You are still moving. You are still learning. You are still becoming the woman who can hold the life, family, mission, and business you’re building. One compassionate next step still counts. 🤗 I appreciate you. 🙏

Hi friends! I have to move the time of our Execution Lab tomorrow (April 10th) to noon CST (instead of 9 am CST). I’m happy to share that Justin is receiving an award from school in the morning for the Character Strength Award! 🥳 He’s being recognized as a leader in JUDGMENT…which they define as “getting as close as possible to the best answer.” He has demonstrated this strength in meaningful ways at school and even at home. For a 6-year-old, I’m often amazed at how he could read the room, understand what someone is feeling (and what he’s feeling at the same time), and try to help in his own way. Like his older brother, he has an old soul in a young body. 😄 We’re soooo proud of him. 🥰 And I can’t wait to cheer for him tomorrow! 💕