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I Have ADHD Podcast

227 Dealing With ADHD and Chronic Pain with FOCUSED Member Sue Pieters

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

I’m really enjoying these episodes with my FOCUSED community, and I hope you are too! Today, Sue Peters is with me, and we dive into the difficult world of chronic pain through an ADHD lens.

When Sue was finally diagnosed with ADHD in her mid-twenties, she had already identified that there was something different about her and had even tried reaching out for help. But ignorant and insensitive “experts” failed to give her the guidance and support she needed, which left her with a lot of rejection, shame, and emotional pain from childhood through young adulthood. Everything compounded when her family went through a scary surgery situation with her child, and one day she woke up with immobility and excruciating pain that changed the course of her life.

Sue and I discuss how things like trauma and emotional wounds can eventually weaken the immune system to the point of breaking down physical health, and how important it is to receive therapy and coaching in a way that’s sensitive to ADHD. Listen in to hear her incredible story of resilience with ADHD and chronic pain, and how she’s working through it all at her own pace, finding her path, surrounded by community.


Are you being treated for ADHD but still aren’t quite achieving your potential? Try my group coaching program FOCUSED and experience the difference.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:11.4

coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.

0:17.4

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting

0:22.0

relationships working and achieving with this

0:24.8

neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique brain,

0:29.3

unlock your potential and move from point A to point B.

0:33.4

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

0:41.1

ADHD podcast. I am medicated, I am

0:44.9

regulated, and I am ready to roll. How are you? How are you? How are you?

0:50.8

So glad to be here with you today?

0:53.7

So happy that you press play on this podcast.

0:56.3

You're not gonna regret it.

0:58.4

I promise.

0:59.9

Today on the podcast, I have a dear client and focus member member Sue Peters with me. She is here to talk all about her ADHD experience and specifically her experience with chronic pain as it relates to ADHD.

1:13.4

That's not something that we've talked about before

1:15.5

here on the podcast and I am really looking forward

1:17.9

to getting her perspective

1:19.7

because I think a lot of you audience members,

1:22.0

a lot of you listeners are really going to be

1:23.7

resonating with her story but before we get started I want to remind you to make

1:29.8

sure you're subscribed to this podcast you don't want to have to go looking for it in the

1:34.0

podcast, Ether's, if you remember it and you're like, what was that podcast again? I need to go remember,

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