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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I

interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice

they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Jenna Free to Before Breakfast.

Jenna is a therapist, an expert on ADHD, and is the author of the brand new book,

The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation. Jenna, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, so excited to talk with you about this topic. Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit

about yourself? Absolutely. So I'm a therapist. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 32 while in grad school to become a therapist. I have been working with clients for about three years now. And in working with them, learned about myself and found a strong connection that ADHDers are almost always in fight or flight,

and that dysregulated state is what causes a lot of our struggles, not the ADHD itself.

Yeah, so talk about that a little bit, being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

I mean, for starters, did you go like, oh, yeah, that explains a lot when you heard that?

Absolutely.

And that's why I sought it. Because I was like, oh yeah, that explains a lot when you heard that? Absolutely. And that's why I saw it, saw it.

Because I was like, this can't be normal.

I don't think life's supposed to be this hard.

Well, what was it that was tripping you off that that might be the case?

It was, like for many women after I had two kids in a year and half.

And everything just became too much for my coping mechanism.

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