"My ADHD Brain Forgot to Turn Off the Alarm. Best Mistake Ever."
Hey newbies, It was so good to connect with you all on the call today. Many of you have already seen my welcome posts, alongside other lovely members who've come through the 5-day challenge and the 6-week program. I wasn't expecting to be joining you at 4am New Zealand time. My alarm decided to go off at 3.30 (good ADHD brain forgot to turn it off), and I thought, well, what's a girl to do? Then I remembered Jim was running Day 2, and figured it was meant to happen. And I'm so glad it did. It was lovely to resonate again with the common themes we all share. The common challenges. The feelings of what we grew up with. And then the big changes that quietly tip us into asking, am I okay? Why isn't this working anymore? For some of us in the older group, this often shows up as a career transition. We've worked our butts off, burnt out, and a job change has left us feeling a bit out of alignment with who we are. For some of us, ladies, yes, menopause is in the mix too. (Or as I like to call it: MentalPause/Mentalpaws.) To the brave ones who jumped on the Q&A and shared your vulnerability today, I just want to reassure you: this is a genuinely safe space to do that. A few weeks back I worked through some tough stuff around forgiveness letters and childhood trauma, and I did not feel alone. Virtual hugs landed from people on the other side of the world. Private DMs popped through saying "you've got this, Debz." I honestly hadn't felt held like that in a long time. So my message to you is simple: stick with the 5 days. It has been so enlightening, so reaffirming that I am not broken and I do not need to be fixed. I just need to embrace who I am, and learn a little about how to work my brain in a more neurotypical-friendly way when life calls for it. That may sound weird, - but the neurotypical world, they will soon see, that with how tech is chaning, that US with the abilty to see patterns, think outside of boexes, circles, whatever we want to call them, - will have a special place as we bring our creativity to the forefront.