Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and

coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have

ADHD podcast episode number 168.

I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I am ready to roll.

How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? I'm so pumped to hang out with you today here on this lovely

podcast. What are you up to? We are going to be talking about how to organize and O. M. G. This concept is like so crucial for the

ADHD brain. Oh my gosh we struggle with this so so so much. It is going to be a tasty episode I'll tell you that I just got back from a hike I know I mentioned

hiking on my last episode too so now I'm running the risk of becoming

that annoying person who brags about working out but if you really know me like

if you know me you know that I'm not that, that working out is not a thing for me.

I just really love being outside in the summertime.

I used to use running and exercise and going to the gym and all of that as self-harm.

I was thinking about that the other day.

I really used to punish myself with exercise.

I would yell at myself internally and beat myself up and just be like I don't care if you don't like it we're doing it anyway

It's really mean and then for years like for years. I took a break from working out while I healed this part of me.

And in the last few months I've been loving hiking.

The new house that we just moved into is about five minutes away from this gorgeous

lake area that has a ton of hiking and biking trails and I feel pretty safe there with my kids

or by myself. So I've been going a lot and recently

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