Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.

I'm your host, Christine 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 Christine Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated. I am caffeinated. I am regulated. And I am ready to roll.

That's right. You heard it. You heard it. After four years of this podcast, I'm making a tiny, tiny, tiny, but massive change to the intro to include the fact that I am regulated.

Because I'm realizing it's not enough to be medicated, and it's not enough to be caffeinated. I also have the responsibility to be regulated.

And this is why we're here today, my friend. It's the crux of ADHD management, and this is what we are learning together day by day on this pod.

Medicated, caffeinated, regulated, and now we're ready to roll. I got to tell you, though, being regulated is actually quite difficult for me during this topic, because we are talking about rejection sensitivity, and rejection sensitive dysphoria.

And I'm not joking when I say that it gets me fired up. This is going to be a series of episodes on rejection, rejection sensitivity, rejection sensitivity dysphoria, et cetera, et cetera.

And I am going to need to be practicing all of my self regulatory techniques as I research and take notes and record today's episode and episode for next week.

Magnus, you might need to hang tight and do some deep breathing with me, which is totally fine. We can be in this together.

It is going to be on the heavier side. And so if you're not in a good place, just make sure to take care, you know, make sure that you are nurtured and safe as you listen to this episode.

But first, if you are looking for supplemental support for your ADHD, I want to invite you to join my coaching program focused.

Focused is a monthly membership. We're adults with ADHD gather in community to learn skills that we really should have learned in childhood and adolescence. Let's be real.

Skills like time management, emotional regulation, how to organize, how to understand ADHD, and all of the things that help us to develop into fully functioning adults.

Now, I've served thousands of adults with ADHD through this program and it's proven itself over and over to be beneficial to those who are struggling with ADHD symptoms.

Now, I got to chat with one of my clients this week and I want you to hear what she has to say about the program.

You have changed my life because I'm not on medicine, but I've been attending, focused for, I'm now like two years now.

And there was a point in time where I was going to get rid of it and luckily I paused and I'm so glad I stayed because you're my medicine.

And seriously, you have helped so many people and you have helped me. I mean, I could identify you said one time you were back in the day sitting on the couch and you did nothing with your day.

That was me. Now I've started a business. It's a tiny business. I'm still waiting for it to pay off or things to happen, but I've done things and I'm actually moving forward and doing more and more.

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