Dealing With ADHD and Chronic Pain with FOCUSED Member Sue Pieters

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

I’m really enjoying these episodes with my FOCUSED community, and I hope you are too! Today, Sue Peters is with me, and we dive into the difficult world of chronic pain through an ADHD lens.

When Sue was finally diagnosed with ADHD in her mid-twenties, she had already identified that there was something different about her and had even tried reaching out for help. But ignorant and insensitive “experts” failed to give her the guidance and support she needed, which left her with a lot of rejection, shame, and emotional pain from childhood through young adulthood. Everything compounded when her family went through a scary surgery situation with her child, and one day she woke up with immobility and excruciating pain that changed the course of her life.

Sue and I discuss how things like trauma and emotional wounds can eventually weaken the immune system to the point of breaking down physical health, and how important it is to receive therapy and coaching in a way that’s sensitive to ADHD. Listen in to hear her incredible story of resilience with ADHD and chronic pain, and how she’s working through it all at her own pace, finding her path, surrounded by community.

Are you being treated for ADHD but still aren’t quite achieving your potential? Try my group coaching program FOCUSED and experience the difference.

Be sure to hang out with me on Instagram HERE.

Shout-outs:

@kamden_adhd

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I Have ADHD Podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:37.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD Podcast.
0:42.0	I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.
0:48.0	How are you? How are you so glad to be here with you today?
0:53.0	So happy that you post play on this podcast.
0:56.0	You're not going to regret it, a promise.
0:59.0	Today on the podcast, I have a dear client and focus member, Sue Peters with me.
1:03.0	She is here to talk all about her ADHD experience, and specifically her experience with chronic pain, as it relates to ADHD.
1:13.0	That's not something that we've talked about before here on the podcast, and I am really looking forward to getting her perspective,
1:19.0	because I think a lot of you audience members, a lot of you listeners are really going to be resonating with her story.
1:27.0	Before we get started, I want to remind you to make sure you're subscribed to this podcast.
1:32.0	You don't want to have to go looking for it in the podcast, either if you remember it, and you're like, what was that podcast again?
1:37.0	I need to go remember, I need to go find it, just go ahead and press the follow button and subscribe right now.
1:42.0	And if you want to give back to the show, I would so appreciate you hitting that five star rating.
1:47.0	It makes a huge difference, first of all, in my dopamine levels.
1:50.0	And second of all, in other ADHDers ability to find the show and get the help that they need and deserve.
1:57.0	Thank you. I appreciate you so much.
2:01.0	And now let's get to this amazing conversation with my client, Sue.
2:07.0	I know that you're going to be so inspired by her story.
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