A podcast for ADHD women, including the late-diagnosed and the highly sensitive, who want to live life on their terms and build a life that works with their brain.
Maybe you did everything right: the degree, the career, the milestones. And you’re still exhausted, still masking, and wondering why a life that looks fine on paper feels so hard to live.
I’m Rachel, a life coach and a highly sensitive, late-diagnosed ADHDer.
On Awaken Your More for ADHD Women,
You’ll hear about:
Starting over at any age, and feeling behind
ADHD burnout, exhaustion and overstimulation
Masking, rejection sensitivity (RSD) and perfectionism
People pleasing, boundaries, decision paralysis and trusting yourself again
Purpose, ambition, and work that fits your brain
Real change doesn’t happen from the neck up, so many episodes include simple body-based and nervous system practices you can use straight away.
Whether you’re diagnosed, late-diagnosed or still wondering, you’re welcome here.
New episodes weekly.
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Ep 18: ADHD Masking in Women: The Hidden Cost and How to Finally Stop
ADHD masking in women is exhausting, and for many of us it's a survival strategy we didn't even know we were using. If you come home from a day of being "fine" completely wiped out, this episode is for you. In this week's episode, I share my own story of masking, burnout and not fitting in, plus what ADHD masking in women really looks like, why it so often goes unnoticed, and the hidden cost of years spent hiding how your brain works. We also talk about why ADHD burnout is never a willpower ...
27 Oct 2026
Ep 17 - ADHD Masking in Women: Unmask and Build a Life That Fits
ADHD masking in women can leave you looking completely together on the outside and running on empty on the inside. If you have spent years people-pleasing, performing and heading towards masking burnout, this episode will help you unmask and build a life that fits, whether you are late diagnosed with ADHD or still wondering. In this week’s episode, I go back to the question my own late ADHD diagnosis left me with year: who have I actually been, and how much of it was a mask? It is the h...
20 Oct 2026
Ep 16 - ADHD and Boredom at Work: How to Cope Without Blowing Up Your Life
Do you feel restless, foggy and weirdly exhausted at work, even in a job that looks good on paper? Have you ever wondered if you’re just ungrateful, or if something’s wrong with you for wanting to quit every year or so? ADHD boredom at work isn’t laziness, and it was never a willpower problem. We look at how to work with your interest-based brain instead of fighting it, and what your boredom might actually be trying to tell you. Tune in to learn: Why ADHD boredom feels so physical - restless,...
13 Oct 2026
Ep 15 - ADHD Burnout: Why It Happens and How to Recover
You start something you genuinely care about, then hit a wall and can’t make yourself carry on. You feel lazy but completely exhausted, and the shame spiral kicks in. If that sounds familiar, you’re not lazy. It might be ADHD burnout. In this week’s episode, I share the five biggest causes of ADHD burnout and what actually helps with each one, from masking and hyperfocus crashes to people-pleasing and late diagnosis. I’ll also guide you through a two-minute practice to help your nervous syste...
6 Oct 2026
Ep 14 - ADHD Mood Swings in Women: How to Master Big Emotions
One minute you're buzzing with ideas and making plans, the next you're teary, withdrawn and needing to hide from the world. If you're a woman with ADHD, or you're highly sensitive, those fast mood swings can make work, relationships and everyday life feel exhausting - and lonely, when no one has ever shown you what to do with all that feeling. In this week's episode, I'm sharing my own emotional rollercoaster, what my late ADHD diagnosis finally explained, and the six things that have genuine...
29 Sept 2026
Ep 13: ADHD Mindfulness Exercises That Actually Work
Do you have a mind that never switches off - the kind that's planning next month at 2am? If you've ever tried meditating and quietly decided you're just "bad at it", this one's for you. In this video, I share how I learned to meditate with a busy ADHD brain, why mindfulness can feel so hard at first, and the simple, movement-friendly practices that genuinely help me find calm. This is the Peace part of Peace, Power, Purpose - quieting the noise so you can finally hear yourself again. Tune in ...
25 Sept 2026
Ep 12 - Why You Start Everything and Finish Nothing (ADHD Explained)
Do you have a constant desire to do more with your life but can't seem to execute? You're full of ideas and big dreams, yet something always stops you from following through, and the inner critic has plenty to say about it. In this week's episode, I'm sharing my own recent ADHD diagnosis and what it's taught me about executive function, novelty, and why big goals can leave us frozen. I'll also share the practical tools I use with my neurodivergent and highly sensitive clients to actually work...
18 Sept 2026
Ep 11: High-Functioning ADHD: Why Looking Fine Is Exhausting You From the Inside Out
You look like you've got it together - good job, good grades, all the boxes ticked - and underneath it, you're exhausted from proving you deserve to be there. If you're a woman with ADHD, especially one who recognises herself in highly sensitive traits too, this episode is for you. In this week's episode, I'm talking about what high-functioning ADHD actually feels like from the inside, why "doing more" never actually fixes the not-enough feeling, and what genuinely helps instead. Tune in to...
8 Sept 2026
Ep 10: Is It ADHD, Are You Highly Sensitive, or Are You Both?
If you've spent years assuming you're "just" a highly sensitive person, but something has never quite added up, this one's for you. In this week's episode I'm sharing my own recent discovery that alongside my sensitivity, I've also been navigating undiagnosed inattentive ADHD my whole life. This week's episode digs into how HSP and ADHD overlap, where they differ, and why so many high-achieving women miss the signs entirely because they were the "good girls" who never got questioned at schoo...
27 Aug 2026
Ep 9 - How to Start Overcoming Your Inner Critic Instead of Fighting It
If your inner critic feels louder than everyone else's, you're not imagining it. For highly sensitive people, that voice telling you "you're not good enough" runs deeper, and no amount of affirmations seems to quiet it. In this week's episode, I'm sharing why fighting your inner critic never works, and what actually helps instead when the affirmations haven't landed. Tune in to learn: - Why fighting your inner critic just makes it louder - What your inner critic is actually trying to do fo...
15 Aug 2026
Ep 8: Signs of HSP burnout
Ep 8 - Why Do I Feel Lazy and Unmotivated All the Time? You Might Be a HSP You care deeply about your life, your work, your people - and yet some days you physically cannot make yourself do the thing. Then comes the guilt, and that familiar inner voice: you're just being lazy. If that sounds like you, this episode is going to change how you see yourself. In this week's episode, I'm sharing why highly sensitive people burn out more easily, the moment in Asia when my own body "closed the shop" ...
5 Aug 2026
Ep 7: How to become more Confident as a HSP
Ep 07 - How to Build Confidence as a Highly Sensitive Person Everywhere you look, someone seems more confident than you. Louder, bolder, chattier, seemingly radiating energy while you overthink every word you said three days ago. If you're a highly sensitive person, it's easy to believe confidence is something everyone else got given and you missed out on. In this week's episode, I'm sharing my own story of being labelled a "shrinking violet" as a child, the rebellious years I spent trying to...
28 Jul 2026
Ep 6: How to choose a job if you're a HSP
Ep 6 - How to choose a job if you're a HSP Ever wondered why you can't just settle into a job like everyone else seems to? If you're a highly sensitive person, the career struggle isn't a flaw in you - it's a mismatch between who you are and the conditions you've been trying to function in. In this week's episode, I'm sharing the 7 steps that took me from burning out in corporate PR and teaching to building work that actually fits who I am - including the exact questions to journal, the three...
20 Jul 2026
Ep 5: Why HSPs NEED Embodiment Practices
If you're a highly sensitive person who's spent years in talk therapy and still can't shake the 2am spirals, the dread in your chest, the sense that you understand everything and yet nothing's actually changed, this episode is for you. In this week's episode, I'm sharing why talk therapy alone often isn't enough for HSPs, and what embodiment practices do differently. I'll walk you through my own journey with somatic healing, the research behind why our nervous systems process things so much m...
14 Jul 2026
Ep 4: How to ACTUALLY find your purpose
There's enormous pressure to have a calling, a clear sense of what you're here to do — and for sensitive, intuitive people that pressure lands differently, because meaning actually matters to us. In this episode I'm getting honest about why you can tick every box on paper and still feel like something's missing, and what I've learned about the difference between the life you build and the life you're actually living. Tune in to learn: Why you can achieve everything you set out to and still fe...
7 Jul 2026
Ep 3: The HSP Signs Nobody Talks About (And What to Do With Them)
Maybe you've always felt things more deeply than the people around you. Maybe you've been called "too sensitive" and never quite known what to do with that. In this episode I'm getting personal about what being a highly sensitive person actually looks and feels like from the inside — not from a research paper, but from my own life. If you've ever had a flicker of recognition around the HSP label, this one is for you. Tune in to learn: What Elaine Aron's research actually says about highly sen...
30 Jun 2026
Ep 2: Why Work Burnout Hits Sensitive High-Achievers Hardest
If you're a sensitive high-achiever who keeps swinging between periods of intense productivity and total collapse — this episode is going to make a lot of things click. Burnout for highly sensitive people isn't just about doing too much. It's a nervous system crisis, a values crisis, and often the result of spending years working against yourself rather than with yourself. In this episode I'm getting personal about my own burnout cycles and sharing exactly why HSPs are wired to hit this wall ...
25 Jun 2026
Ep 1: Self-Trust for Sensitive People: What It Actually Means and How to Build It
So many sensitive, high-achieving women know they should trust themselves but in practice, they're outsourcing decisions to everyone around them, mistaking other people's certainty for wisdom and their own quiet knowing for naivety. In this episode, I'm breaking down what self-trust actually means and why it's the foundation for everything, and the practices that genuinely build it. Tune in to learn: Why self-trust and self-confidence are not the same thing — and why the distinction mat...
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