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 97 I am medicated I

am caffeinated and I am ready to roll my people oh my, I haven't been on here for a solo show in what feels like forever and I've got to say.

I'm so glad to be back. I'm so glad to be back. Today we're going to be talking about

the idea of building your ADHD scaffolding. Why it's important, why we resist doing it, and the specifics of how it will help us.

I first learned about the idea of scaffolding from the esteemed Dr Russell Barclay and I very much look forward to sharing practical

ways that you can build your own scaffolding even if you're on a budget.

Now I need to share with you that February was the hardest month ever and I really just gave myself space to just let it be hard.

I didn't really try to fix it.

I didn't try to coach myself into it being more productive.

I just allowed the month of February to be heavy.

I'm wondering if you allow yourself the space

to have off days or off weeks or off months.

As you know from listening to this podcast I've been on a long long

journey of self-acceptance and a huge part of accepting myself is allowing myself

the space to be and feel imperfect.

So before we get started today I just kind of want to give you a picture of what it looked like for me to give myself space because I think this can be

useful to you. So in February, it's a hard month, lots of stuff going on in my

personal life. I want to clarify that like

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