My conversation with The Hidden 20% is now live

I’m so happy to share that my conversation with The Hidden 20% is now live on YouTube. The episode is called “ADHD Brain Connection Most People Miss”, and it gave me a lovely opportunity to talk about many of the ideas at the heart of my work: ADHD as a whole mind-body experience, the gut-brain axis, nutrition, nervous system regulation, self-kindness and the importance of looking beyond the usual symptom checklist.

This was a fun, heart-to-heart conversation with Ben Branson, where we explored why ADHD is not simply about attention or dopamine, even though both are important. It is also about capacity, sensory load, emotional regulation, stress physiology, food, sleep, gut health and the environments we live in every day. When we look at ADHD through this wider neuroscience lens, many behaviours that are usually judged as inconsistency, impulsivity or lack of discipline begin to make much more sense.

Thanking Ben and the uber-fabulous Phoebe De Leiburne for providing such a nurturing, safe place for me to talk about stuff that is important, but also quite intimate…

ADHD as a whole mind-body experience

This episode also connects closely with the themes I explore in ADHD Body & Mind, especially the idea that ADHD lives through the whole system: gut, brain, nervous system, senses, emotions and lived experience. I’m deeply grateful to Ben and the utterly fabulous Phoebe De Leiburne for creating such a nurturing and safe space for this conversation. Some of what we discussed is important, but also quite intimate, and it takes a very particular kind of care to make those conversations feel spacious, thoughtful and human.

I hope you find something useful in this episode if you’re trying to understand your ADHD, your body and your inner world with a little more kindness.

With love,