Michelle Swerin: Anxiety, text therapy & meditating on our laundry piles
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Episode 137 with Michelle Swerin.
“I can't tell you how many jobs I had as a teenager. I mean, easily 20. I was never fired, I just lost interest really quickly.”
Michelle is a licensed therapist, certified meditation teacher, and certified instructional designer. She is also a neurodivergent mother of two and the founder of Create Space Health, a telehealth clinic focused on incorporating meditation into mental health therapy.
Michelle saw big changes in her own life when she began practicing meditation. Since then, she has become a certified meditation teacher and has been able to merge her clinical training and meditation experience into her practice to help those struggling with mental health challenges. She is passionate about bringing mindfulness and meditation into the clinical space, where she believes it can have a larger impact on the treatment of mental health disorders.
Michelle and I talk about ADHD-friendly approaches to meditation, and we also talk about high-functioning anxiety and the negative effects of masking, and how meditation and mindfulness therapy can help.
This interview was also recorded the day after Michelle and I hosted an Instagram Live on “Advocating for Neurodivergent Mental Health Care” — it was a fantastic conversation, so if you love today’s episode, I highly recommend you check out the recording.
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| 0:05.2 | than they do for everyone else? Do you struggle with motivation even for the things you actually want to do? |
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| 1:02.4 | We need to normalize. Like, I'm meditating not in this like perfectly stark, beautiful white room. |
| 1:10.0 | You know what I mean? Like, I'm literally sitting on top of a pile of |
| 1:12.6 | laundry that i've been meaning to do for two weeks you know and i'm going to take this five minutes |
| 1:20.9 | to focus somewhere else i still can choose to do that. |
| 1:37.6 | Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. |
| 1:47.1 | I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, |
| 1:53.8 | school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience and now I |
| 1:58.9 | interview other women who like like me, discovered in |
| 2:01.7 | adulthood they have ADHD and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how |
| 2:07.7 | to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally. Before we get started, |
| 2:13.5 | I'd like to share with you this highly relatable review from a listener called Podcast Junkie UK |
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