Jenna Free on Escaping Survival Mode and Reclaiming Your Day
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ep547. Ever feel like you’re being chased by an invisible bear all day? ADHD therapist and author Jenna Free says that’s what living in a constant state of fight-or-flight feels like. She joins Renee to unpack how dysregulation fuels overwhelm, what it really means to “slow down,” and how getting out of survival mode can transform the way you parent, work, and move through your day to get that bear off your back for good.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.2 | Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? |
| 0:09.4 | Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? |
| 0:14.7 | I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. |
| 0:17.0 | I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp, and those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show. |
| 0:26.6 | There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible to know what's real and what's BS. |
| 0:35.8 | On Bite Back, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food, their body, and themselves, |
| 0:42.1 | which in my opinion is the fundamental secret to good health. |
| 0:46.6 | Listen to Bite Back wherever you get your podcasts. Jenna, welcome to the mom room. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm so excited to have you. |
| 1:03.3 | I was trying to think today how I came across your stuff. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't know if I discovered your podcast first by searching ADHD in Apple Podcasts, |
| 1:14.8 | or if I came across your social media, but I'm pretty sure I just typed in ADHD in Apple |
| 1:20.4 | podcast and your podcast came up. Well, there we are. Yeah. And now here you are. It's funny to hear |
| 1:26.7 | your voice because, like, I listened to you in the car. So, yeah. Yeah. And now here you are. It's funny to hear your voice because like I listened to you in the car. |
| 1:30.3 | So yeah. So to start, obviously this episode is going to cover a lot of ADHD stuff and motherhood with ADHD stuff. |
| 1:40.5 | But I thought you could tell us a little bit about your journey and how you became interested in this topic and how it showed up in your life and kind of the steps that you took to manage ADHD symptoms. |
| 1:55.5 | Yes. |
| 1:56.1 | So I always just thought, oh, I think differently. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm so unique. |
| 2:00.8 | And when about my life, had oh, I think differently. I'm so unique. And went about my life. |
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