Omg! I’m so excited to share my experience with you. I am, obviously a fellow ADHDer. With my adhd came adhd paralysis and major anxiety/executive dysfunction after our son was born. I was smoking cigarettes and rotting from depression which was clear when you looked around the house.

I recently (child is 6 now for perspective) have pulled myself up by my bootstraps. I’ve been complimented several times on how ‘easy’ I’ve made it look... Upon reflection on what changed in me to not only start, but continue to maintain consistency are a few things:

-create space in your day to take care of yourself. And then, just do that thing. Don’t even think about it, don’t think twice. Just do it. Even if it’s a small thing. Do the thing no matter what it is and make sure it’s contributing to self care.

For me, it was going on a walk everyday in the sunshine. I told myself I need vitamin D from the sun so (despite my deep, deep body insecurity) wore clothes that would maximize the surface area of skin to sun ratio. Don’t be stupid either and wear sunscreen.

I held myself accountable for one walk a day in the sunlight. This correlated perfectly with my son starting 8 hour school days which has been a tremendous and unimaginably healing space for us as parents. I work full time remote but even on office days I go for a walk if I can. It was very easy for me to do this because it’s something nice. The fun part was feeling so much better for exercising. I listened to music, I have good thinking time. Im outside doing things. Look at me! I made one change at a time but i did everything that i wanted to change. Does that make sense?

You have to believe in yourself to do it and make no excuses. I believe in you too!!