328 Did You Waste Your Summer? Here's Your 'August Panic' Survival Guide
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hey ADHDer, summer isn’t over over… and you haven’t wasted it. In this gentle, reflective episode, we’re talking about the emotional soup of August: regret over what didn’t get done, sadness that the magic is fading, dread of back-to-school chaos, and the last-minute urgency to squeeze it all in.
If you're feeling a swirl of emotions right now, this episode is your soft place to land.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, |
| 0:20.0 | and challenges of adulting, relationships, |
| 0:22.8 | working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique brain, |
| 0:29.7 | unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you've tuned into the I Have ADHD podcast. I am |
| 0:40.5 | medicated, caffeinated, regulated, and ready to roll. What's up? What's up? How are you? Come in, come in, come in, come in, get in the |
| 0:50.6 | room, get cozy, whatever it is that you're doing. Just like know that for the next |
| 0:57.0 | 40 to 60 minutes, you and I were going to be hanging out. I'm so glad you're here. So glad that |
| 1:05.2 | you press play on this podcast. Today we're talking about the changing of the seasons. Guys, it's August. How is it August? How is it? I'm like |
| 1:15.8 | the panic. The panic that is setting in. How is it August? I have no idea. We're going to be |
| 1:22.9 | talking about it today. We're going to be collectively together, self-soothing and really trying to |
| 1:31.5 | like burn into our brains that summer isn't over. We haven't wasted it. No matter what like |
| 1:37.4 | emotional soup we might be feeling about it being August, we're going to, we're going to be |
| 1:42.4 | okay. And maybe you're like so happy that the summer is ending because |
| 1:46.8 | you don't like the summer. I don't know what kind of monster doesn't like the summer, but I know |
| 1:51.9 | some of you don't enjoy being hot. I have heard. I have heard it rumored that that is true. |
| 1:59.0 | And listen, that's fine. All are welcome here. We do not discriminate. |
| 2:03.0 | However, I do not understand. I do not understand. That's fine. And maybe even you're in a different |
| 2:08.6 | hemisphere. Maybe you're in Australia. And it's winter. And you're like, excuse me, I'm freezing right now. |
| 2:14.1 | Well, this episode's for you too. my friends, this episode is for you too. |
| 2:19.5 | Here's where we're going to go today. We're going to start with a voicemail. Lots to say about that |
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