EP. 249: Adieu Beautiful Mama: ADHD and Grief

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This is the hardest episode I’ve had to record to date. In truth, I’ve been avoiding it like the plague, which means procrastinating everything so I don’t have to go there, but I knew I had to do it for my beautiful mother. Since starting this podcast back in 2019, many of you have asked for an episode on grief. Just like my episodes on trauma that took years, I dug my heels in because the words I was telling myself sounded like, “how can you talk about grief when you haven’t experienced it?” Unfortunately, I am now part of this illustrious club that no one wants to be part of. In this episode I talk about grief and how those of us with ADHD may handle it differently, from time perception challenges to social challenges to how we react in a crisis. But first, I hope it’s okay that I share the story of my incredible mother because hers is a story that I need to tell. Resources

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0:00.0	This is the hardest podcast episode that I've had to record to date.
0:07.2	Since starting this podcast back in 2019, many of you have asked for an episode on grief,
0:14.2	but just like my episodes on trauma that took years because I dug my heels in because
0:18.4	the words I was telling myself sounded like, how can you talk about grief when you have
0:25.0	an experience to it?
0:27.6	Unfortunately, I'm now part of this illustrious club that no one wants to be part of.
0:37.0	My beautiful mama passed away suddenly, so I'm going to talk about grief and how those
0:43.2	of us with ADHD may handle it differently.
0:52.0	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:01.7	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:07.5	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?
1:13.7	Can you know what we hear even less about?
1:19.4	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Wippy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,
1:28.3	Cher.
1:29.3	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.
1:33.8	And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.
1:39.5	I'm your host, Tracy Auxica.
1:41.7	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:46.6	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is A-OK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:54.0	out what they should do with their life.
1:56.5	And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how
2:02.6	you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in.
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