Dating as a woman with ADHD is like playing a game where no one gave you the rulebook. One moment, you’re riding the high of a new crush, completely captivated and texting nonstop. The next, you’re emotionally crashing because they took five hours to reply, and now your brain is spiraling with worst-case scenarios. Dating apps feel overwhelming, first dates leave you exhausted from masking, and long-term relationships bring challenges like forgetfulness, emotional intensity, and struggling to interpret social cues.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. ADHD adds a unique layer of complexity to love, making dating both exhilarating and draining. This blog dives into the struggles ADHD women face when navigating romance—so you can feel seen, validated, and better equipped to find a relationship that truly works for you.

Quarantine has been hard on us all in so many different ways it can feel exhausting just to think about. Many of us are struggling from an inexplicable type of exhaustion that encompasses fears, dread, frustration, fatigue, guilt and so much more. How can we show up in everyday life when it feels like everyday life is still not back to status quo? How do we meet ourselves where we're at, while pushing ourselves to do the things we know we want to do in a world that feels less than perfect right now?

Coping Ahead is a phrase I learned many years ago in my own therapy. It helped me through tough visits back home with family while I was undergoing my own healing. But coping ahead can be used for far more than just visits with family. At it's core, coping ahead is really about preparing yourself for any situation so that you may go into it with enough efficacy, resources, and capabilities to handle whatever happens.

We all have goals, yet few of us actually succeed at achieving them. Why is it so easy to have a goal, but so difficult to accomplish one? Perhaps the issue lies not in the goal itself, or even our own willpower. Perhaps the issue is in how we approach the goal. Many of us tend to be harsher on ourselves than we realize. We give ourselves tight deadlines and expect transformation fast. Yet, this outlook and approach could be the very thing inciting perceived failure and then total abandonment of a goal.

Finding the right therapist can seem tedious at best and frustratingly discouraging at worst. The process isn't exactly taught or common knowledge. From navigating insurance woes, and availability matches, looking for a therapist with a specific niche or specialty or simply one that is right in your neighborhood, finding a good therapist can be hard. From a therapist who has experienced this process a time or two myself, here are my top tips to making the process as seamless as possible.