The Diagnosis That Perimenopause Gave Me Before the Psychiatrist Did
If you're in midlife and something has suddenly stopped working — your focus, your sleep, your ability to hold it together — this might be why. A therapist and late-diagnosed ADHD woman writes about the collision of perimenopause and ADHD, and what she found on the other side of it.
Why Women with ADHD Struggle with Consistency (And Why It Was Never Our Fault)
Women with ADHD are routinely measured against a consistency standard built for a neurotypical, non-hormonal body — and told the gap is a character flaw. It isn't. This article breaks down where the standard came from, what perimenopause does to an already-taxed dopamine system, and why the mask of manufactured consistency was never sustainable to begin with.
Process Over Product: What Neurodivergent Women Lose — and What Helps
When we can't make just to make, something essential goes quiet. This essay explores what neurodivergent women lose when process gets crowded out by productivity — and what it looks like to find your way back to creative aliveness.