Lisa Dos Santos: Codependency & multipotentiality
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Episode 91 with Lisa Dos Santos.
“Since I was 5 or 6, I was told I was lazy, messy, and forgetful. They used to call me lostkop in Afrikaans, which literally means your head is lost.”
Lisa is a 35-year-old South African who was recently diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type. She suspected something was different about her growing up but always assumed it was due to the trauma of being raised in an abusive home. However, when a teacher suggested Lisa’s 6-year-old daughter might have ADHD, Lisa started connecting the dots in her own life.
After 11 different jobs and 17 years in the corporate world, Lisa now runs an online mindful yoga practice @yogalisa.online where she focuses on “bite-sized mindfulness,” breath work, and feeling good. Lisa’s teachings are inclusive, spiritual, and rooted closely in the origins of yoga.
We talk about her history of codependency and how ADHD has played a role in those behaviors. We also talk about the concept of multipotentiality and the inability to stay still in our lives, especially when it comes to professions.
And we also discuss the benefits of yoga and mindfulness for ADHD, and how intentionally slowing down and listening to our bodies has helped us rebuild self-trust and have more compassion and patience with ourselves and our kids.
Website: YogaLisa.online
Episode edited by E Podcast Productions
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| 1:02.7 | When you have ADHD, a lot of the time you question what is right and what's wrong, |
| 1:08.5 | and I always felt like I was wrong, inherently wrong. No matter what I do, I'm wrong. I always felt like I was wrong inherently wrong. |
| 1:11.2 | No matter what I do, I'm wrong. It's almost like I look to others to tell me what I should do |
| 1:16.3 | and shouldn't do. So every single relationship I was in, I would chameleon myself and it was very |
| 1:22.3 | impulsive, which is the ADHD part where I were just like, okay, now I'm this person. Now I'm |
| 1:26.5 | going to cut my hair. I'm going to get tattoos. I'm going to cut my hair. I'm going to get tattoos. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm going to start smoking weed. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm going to be whatever you need me to be right now. |
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