ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Understanding RSD alongside ADHD with Marcy Caldwell

Jan 17, 2024

Clinical psychologist and ADHD advocate Marcy Caldwell joins Kate to discuss emotional dysregulation, recognizing stress markers, overstimulation and noise, strategies for managing emotional dysregulation, understanding RSD and its impact on emotions and productivity, tracking cycles and regulating emotions, honoring sensitivity and taking time for oneself.

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Quick takeaways

ADHD brains process emotions differently from neurotypical brains, leading to intense shifts from feeling fine to feeling overwhelmed.

Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) is a common experience for individuals with ADHD, characterized by heightened sensitivity to perceived rejection, criticism, or failure.

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Understanding the Podcast's Purpose

In this episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, host Kate Moore introduces herself and explains her motivation for starting the podcast. As a well-being and lifestyle coach, she discovered her own ADHD at the age of 40 and recognized the need for more focus on well-being and lifestyle help for women with ADHD. The podcast aims to offer insights and perspectives to help women with ADHD live fulfilled, calm, and balanced lives.

Introduction

2min

Managing Emotions with ADHD

25min

Release Old Conditioning and Create a New Future

13min

Navigating Emotions and Making Informed Choices

3min

Reframing a Day as Self-Care for Individuals with ADHD and RSD

2min

Working with Your Brain and Making Adjustments - Insights and ADHD Programs

5min

Emotional dysregulation and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) are two of the most challenging elements of ADHD, yet it's often not flagged up when we first learn about ADHD.

In this week's episode, Kate talks to Marcy Caldwell, a clinical psychologist and passionate ADHD advocate based in Philadelphia, PA. Marcy is the founder of ADDept.org, a blog and digital resource helping adults with ADHD create a life that works for, not against, their brains.

During today's episode, Kate and Marcy speak about:

Noticing your stress markers
Recognising how YOUR emotions work
Overstimulation and noise
Strategies to help emotional dysregulation
How emotions can derail us
How habit changes and awareness can help us with overstimulation
Using EFT tapping to help emotional dysregulation
How your emotional patterns can play out
What is RSD, and how does it show up in ADHD?
The impact RSD has on our emotions, productivity and beliefs
Tips for tracking our cycles, noticing when we're more vulnerable and regulating emotions
Honouring ourselves during our more sensitive times and carving out time on our own

Here's a link to Kate's Tap 'n Talk Technique she mentions in the podcast, as well as her other resources to help manage ADHD-related emotional dysregulation and RSD by using EFT/Tapping.

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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.

Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.

Follow the podcast on Instagram here

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

You can connect with Marcy on social media via Instagram @addept_org, or her Facebook community, ADDept ADHD Community.

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