Yesterday I decided to go out and work on my land for an hour…4 1/2 hrs later I walked back into the house shocked that I’d been out there that long! I did get a lot done. Do you get time blindness? I get it when I’m outside in nature and when I’m creating with my hands.

A lot of childhood trauma has been coming up for me since taking the 5-day challenge. In my report my "I thought I was doing the right thing but I'm such a bad parent" childhood trauma was a biggie. 👆Context for this story: Over the last couple of years I've been through a health scare and my ability to take on other people's bullshit has been diminished! I've been working on myself to heal both physically and mentally. ✌️A little more context: Both my parents are in their 70s and my Mum worked as an early-years SEND educator. As a family we've talked openly about a number of their grandchildren potentially being on the Autism/ADHD spectrum, including my own daughters. From my understanding, my parents have to be involved in an official diagnosis process by answering questions. I've not yet shared this information with them, as I'm still processing and learning where I fit. I started learning about ADHD for my twin daughters and recognised it in myself. This realisation of my struggles with focus, energy and impulsivity has helped me have a more compassionate approach to my own parenting. Following my gut, I bravely opened the discussion with my parents over an afternoon cuppa. The conversation was under 5 minutes and sadly, I was met with a super eye-roll from my Mum. My Dad's input was "it's a label" and continued to define each letter of ADHD and asked "where I see myself in these definitions" !?! I felt the twinge of anger rise, followed by the hurt, so the subject was changed. I'm not looking for validation to manage my own health and I don't want to go back in time and point blame at when and when it went wrong, like I said, I'm on a healing journey. 👉 So I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have any advice of how to put boundaries in place to protect my energy but also educate them in a low pressured way?

Wow I didn’t think the Q&A could be so useful. I actually skipped the day 2 Q&A recordings in the 5-day challenge. Then i had a feeling that I should listen to this, so I went back, and I am so happy I did. It was so good to hear other people’s struggles and how beautifully Jim answered them. Even when there was no clear solution to certain things, it just made me feel connected to others and these stories. And just the energy of the call already released something in me. 🙌✨

I started Day 1 of the 5-day challenge yesterday, and I am still just filling out the first day’s AI questions. 😅 I thought there would be 3 questions, but there are a lot more. I tried to finish everything on the way to work and back, but it is never-ending. So I am delaying the second day, hoping I can finish before the challenge closes. 🙏 I really wanted to keep up with the daily exercises, but I am trying not to punish myself for being later than expected and just let it go and keep going. This is also a good exercise for me.😁

Well my analysis let me know that I work in spirals which is completely true. I have a little late watched all the videos and done maybe the first or the second one and answer the questions and I only recently went back to read all the instructions on all of them and maybe I will just cycle back and try to complete the micro to dos before the 6 week begins. Hi I'm Maggie, I really participate to this extent in online communities but hey here we are This year has been already about getting out of the way of myself. I hope I can do that a little bit more here. This program and challenge came exactly at the right time and I have never actually completed a self-development program fully that did not require me to be there in person. I have invested quite a lot in them before and they work to a certain degree but I will have to say that the only works because I was committed to doing the inner work and a thousand and one thanks to Jim, I think I finally understand what that means from someone with the perspective of neurodivergency. For someone with different mental wiring putting in the work means something completely different to someone else that puts in the work who is a neurotypical. For example a lot of programs will say okay now that you've identified the story get rid of it and you're like oh yes that makes complete sense. It's not enough that something makes logical sense to us. I tried to tell this to other neurotypicals and they give me advice and they just don't get it. There is literally a Mount Everest in front of me and the one thing I am supposed to do. And sometimes I don't even know that there is an invisible Mount Everest there. I try to explain this to other people and they just don't understand. I suppose this is what it's like to tell someone who can breathe normally and naturally what it's like to have asthma. I really cannot relate to anyone that has asthma how difficult it is to breathe when it just happens like that for me so I have empathy for no one getting why taking a break and resting and recovering is simply not enough and also I'm sorry. So forgive me if it's a bad comparison but I saw a comment on YouTube once that said "telling someone with anxiety to just calm down is like telling someone with asthma to Just breathe".