⚓ Your Brain Anchor Today: July 11, 2025 (Friday)

Katherine Lizardo

Jul '25 (edited) • 🧠Brain Dump🗑️♻️

Happy Friday, my Thriving members!!!

(I'm going to repeat this intro a few times since repetition is key to learning. 😁)

Let’s intentionally pause and gently anchor our ADHD brain, not to fix it, but to HEAR what it’s telling us today.

That way, we exercise our Thriving Mindset™.

✨ Being aware of it (instead of hiding from it) helps you understand your ADHD brain.

And since pausing is hard for our ADHD brains, this daily brain anchor can do that every time you check our Thriving community.

I invite you to anchor your brain with me. 😀

⚡Copy and paste these prompts to the comments + respond to them. That’s it!

🗓 Date:

📅 Day:

🕒 Time of check-in: [We're timeblind, so I ask this. 😄]

🧠 Quick Brain Check: What’s something you used to believe about your ADHD that you're starting to see differently now?

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Here's mine:

🗓 Date: July 11, 2025

📅 Day: Friday

🕒 Time of check-in: 10:41 am CST

🧠 Quick Brain Check: What’s something you used to believe about your ADHD that you're starting to see differently now?

🧠 I used to believe perfectionism was a sign of strength. That my ability to triple-check everything—every email, legal brief, sentence, comma—meant I was responsible, disciplined, and “on top of things.” I took pride in how “thorough” I was.

But truthfully? I was exhausted. 😖 Every task took forever. Every piece of communication felt like a potential minefield.

And people around me? They’d get frustrated or hurt—thinking I didn’t trust them—when really, I was trying to survive a world that wasn’t designed for my ADHD brain. A world that called my executive function slips “careless.” So I TRIED to control everything.

💡 I found out after my ADHD diagnosis that my perfectionism wasn’t a character trait. It was a coping mechanism.

A way my younger self protected me from the shame, the judgment, and the anxiety of making mistakes.

Mistakes that came from real ADHD challenges—not lack of discipline.

🌱 So then I went on a journey: 20 years of living with my diagnosis. Over 1,000 therapy sessions. Medication. Compassionate self-inquiry. And a lot of rewiring.

I learned to pause when perfectionism shows up.

👉 To gently say, “I see you. Thank you for keeping me safe back then. But I don’t need you to take the wheel anymore.”

🚀 Now I don’t aim for perfection—I aim for progress. Mistakes no longer destroy me; they grow me.

Failure? That’s where I build speed. I’ve become an execution machine because I stopped obsessing over getting it “right” and started focusing on getting it done—with heart, clarity, and purpose.

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Your turn! Looking forward to your response. Have a phenomenal weekend, and I appreciate you. 🙏

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