EP. 367: You Can Be Right And Still Feel Miserable; The Emotional Cost of Needing to Be Understood

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup _____ Wanting to be understood is completely normal. Especially for ADHD women. But there’s a moment where that need quietly shifts, and suddenly we’re not trying to connect anymore. We’re trying to survive. In this episode, let’s talk about why feeling misunderstood doesn’t just feel uncomfortable. It can feel unsafe. When that happens, the nervous system takes ove...

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0:00.0	Before we start, quick pause.
0:03.2	Your ADHD brain is not broken.
0:06.6	It just never came with a user's manual.
0:09.5	So we're going to build one together.
0:12.5	That's what our three days to fall in love with your ADHD brain is all about.
0:18.1	We will start together on Tuesday, January 13th. We originally plan to start on June 6th,
0:24.8	but we pushed the start one week. So we're beginning on January 13th. You don't need to do anything
0:31.2	if you've already signed up, but if you haven't, you can sign it for free at tracyatsuka.com
0:37.4	forward slash I love my brain.
0:46.8	Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel. Wait a minute. Where are the women?
0:59.0	Greta Gerwig. Lisa Ling. Audra McDonald. Simone Biles. That sounds like a list of highly
1:07.7	successful titans in a variety of industries.
1:15.3	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you?
1:17.3	You know what else you don't hear about?
1:23.3	Are the 43% of people with ADHD who are in excellent mental health.
1:26.7	Why aren't we talking about them and what they're doing right?
1:31.9	I'm your host, Tracy Edsuka, and that's exactly what we do here.
1:38.8	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book, ADHD for Smart Aswomen.
1:39.8	I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a patented system that
1:47.6	helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and fall in love with their brilliant brains.
1:54.5	Here, we embrace our too muchness and we focus on our strengths.
1:59.1	My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our greatest gifts.
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