August McLaughlin: Oversharing, disordered eating & girl boners
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 128 with August McLaughlin.
“Puberty was really difficult for me. I used to think everyone had a really hard time, but now I realize hormones and ADHD played a big role in that.”
August is a journalist, author of several books, and the host & producer of Girl Boner Radio, which was named “one of the best sex podcasts you should be listening to” by Romper and one of the top feminist podcasts by Bellesa. Her articles and expertise about sex and sexuality have been featured in a range of publications, including Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Forbes, and Shape, just to name a few.
August & I talk about her history with anorexia and how a lingering addiction to diet pills led to her ADHD diagnosis. We also talk about body dysmorphia and some of the common experiences so many of us have with ADHD and disordered eating.
And we talk about sexuality and ADHD, and the paths to finding what works for our brains and our libidos.
⛔️ TRIGGER WARNING ⛔️ We talk about anorexia, dieting, and disordered eating behaviors, so if you’re not in a place to listen to this topic, you might want to skip this episode.
Books & Articles mentioned:
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
In Her Shadow by August McLaughlin
August’s Ted Talk
Website: augustmclaughlin.com/podcast
Instagram: @augustmclaughlin
Episode edited by E Podcast Productions
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| 1:00.7 | consult today. Once I launched Girl Boner, it clicked things together where I was like, oh, |
| 1:06.9 | there's actually a reason or at least a purpose I can assign to this way of what some people would consider oversharing. |
| 1:15.4 | And of course, what ends up happening, since I interview folks, so many of them are neurodivergent because who's going to get on a podcast and talk about their boners, right? |
| 1:25.8 | Like, overshares are my favorite people in the world. |
| 1:33.7 | Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed |
| 1:40.0 | with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking |
| 1:46.1 | back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, |
| 1:53.3 | and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. I quickly discovered I was not the only woman |
| 1:58.2 | to have this experience, and now I interview other women who, |
| 2:01.4 | like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD and are finally feeling like they understand |
| 2:07.5 | who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally. |
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