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. I am medicated. I am caffeinated.

I'm not quite regulated, but I think that will serve this episode, and I'm 100% ready to roll.

How are you? What's up? So glad you're here. Welcome. It is autumn in Pennsylvania. It is so delightful.

I just discovered that all of our fields turn gold, like all of all of the fields have golden rod in them, and at 42 years old, I'm just now noticing that, and it is beautiful.

When I go on a hike in the mornings, and I have my little three pound weights, like the white suburban mom that I am, I have just been so enjoying the changing of the colors, and especially the golden rod.

It is so beautiful. Let me paint a picture for you by the way of this white suburban mom who goes on hikes. This morning, I could not get myself to do it.

Like I was just like, come on, Kristen, and you know, you know, you know the conversation in your brain, where you're like, I don't want to go.

It's so cozy in my house. I'll just sit here and do work. That's always like my go to my brain wants to just convince me, like, just sit here and do work.

That'll be productive instead of actually, you know, going outside into nature and soothing my soul and also moving my body, killing two birds with one stone, no offense to birds.

So the only way that I could get myself to do it this morning was I was like, just go in your pajamas.

So I did. I went in my pajamas. So picture, flowered pajama pants from Target, a Patagonia, like, fleece, totally mismatched.

My Fanny pack, of course, because I have to have my Fanny pack. I've got my three pound weights, like in each hand and hiking boots. And I looked like a fool.

Didn't even put my contacts in. So I'd like my big old glasses on hair up in a, like, totally messy top knot. And that's the way we went.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but like, no bra, nothing. Like I just pajamas to the hiking field. Like that is what we did. We just went right there.

And you know what? I did it. It allowed me to just do it. I removed every single barrier because the barriers to me are like, if I'm going to go for a hike, then I need to go up and put my contacts in.

And I need to change my clothes and like, put them wrong. And like, you know, make myself presentable to be outside of my home. And it just felt like too much work this morning. So I didn't do any of it.

I was like, nah, you're going in your pajamas. And I did. And I looked ridiculous. I didn't run into anybody. So that's good.

But it looked ridiculous. We are so, so, so, so, I don't know, lucky, blessed privilege, whatever that we walk out the back door and we go through this like little woodsy path. And then we're in a field.

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