More Yourself: Understanding Your Stress Response and Healing Your ADHD Nervous System

Welcome back to More Yourself, a space to explore authenticity, connection, and what it really means to live in alignment with who you are. In this episode, we’re diving deep into the role your nervous system plays in your mental health, your energy, and your ability to feel safe being your full self. Together, we’ll explore what it looks like to move from dysregulation into groundedness, and how learning to understand your body’s stress responses can be the beginning of real healing. What You'll Learn: Why your nervous system is the foundation of your mental and emotional health. The connection between ADHD, chronic stress, and cycles of burnout. How to start identifying your unique triggers, from people-pleasing to masking. What it means to “soften” and create small moments of safety in your body. The impact of cortisol and stress on your physical wellbeing. Simple ways to begin regulating your ADHD nervous system daily. How self-compassion becomes a radical act of healing and trust. This episode is your permission to slow down, go inward, and come home to yourself, one grounded moment at a time, because when you start to honour your own needs and desires, things can begin to shift. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction to More Yourself 01:29 - Exploring the Nervous System 05:24 - Understanding the Impact of Stress on Health 09:39 - The Journey to Self-Understanding 10:24 - Finding Self-Compassion and Trusting Yourself 13:35 - Embracing New Experiences and Self-Compassion And if this resonates, the More Yourself membership is here to support your ongoing journey, helping you build a relationship with yourself that’s rooted in authenticity, compassion, and clarity. Join the More Yourself Community - Starting in October! More Yourself is a compassionate space for late-diagnosed ADHD women to connect, reflect, and come home to who they really are. Inside the More Yourself Membership, you’ll be able to: Connect with like-minded women who understand you Learn from guest experts and practical tools Receive compassionate prompts & gentle reminders Enjoy voice-note encouragement from Kate Join flexible meet-ups and mentoring sessions Access on-demand workshops and quarterly guest expert sessions We’ll also be walking through The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Toolkit together, exploring nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, RSD, joy, hormones, and self-trust, so the book comes alive in a supportive community setting. Launch Details: Free Live Session: 16th September [Sign up here] Early Bird Discount: 16th–23rd September — only £18/month [Join the Waitlist Here] Links and Resources: Find my popular ADHD workshops and resources on my website [here]. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled women newly diagnosed with ADHD find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices