back in 2019, which feels like 100 years ago, I recorded an episode after watching Marie Condos

tidying up. Do you remember that show on Netflix? I was so angry with that entire show,

and I recorded like a very fiery podcast episode. It was my fourth episode ever. So if you want to go back and listen to

2019, Kristen Carter, before she knew she was a coach, before she knew she was going to be

working exclusively with adults with ADHD, all of my growth will be on full display.

Yeah, it's episode number four at the very beginning of 2019.

And since then, I've learned so much.

I've learned so much more about, not just about ADHD,

but about trauma and emotional regulation.

And how those three things, ADHD, trauma, and emotional regulation intersect. And so today's

episode is like an updated, completely new take on organization for the ADHD brain. And our ADHD

brains really struggle with organization because it's literally one of our deficient

executive functioning skills. It's in a group, like a cluster group of organization,

prioritization, and planning. And those three things are in this like cluster of, you know,

an executive function that is deficient for most of us. And that's hard. That's real hard.

Not only is this very hard for us, but we also struggle with emotional regulation and task

initiation, which are two extremely important skills when it comes to wanting to organize. And not only that, but many of us grew up

in cluttered, chaotic households. I wonder if you could think back to your childhood and

just remember like what your home was like, what the piles were like, what the shelves look like. Was it hard to find

things in your home? Was it easy to find things in your home? You can also think about like,

did you move a lot? Did you have a parent, like maybe your parents split up or maybe you

had a parent that passed away? All of those experiences that kind of impact where we live

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