I came across this reel this morning that has some useful information for women with ADHD who are experiencing perimenopause, menopause, or have gone through them. One thing that really stood out to me after participating in the Cohort 3.5 coaching call with Jim on 8/13/26 is the specific mention about how stimulant medications were noted to be less effective during perimenopause. https://www.instagram.com/p/DbCdIVVNW7X/ Thoughts?

After many years of struggling, I rebuilt my life from scratch the last 5 years. Here's my birthday gift to you: 29 lessons, one for every year. 1. You were never broken. You've been running the wrong operating system your whole life. 2. It's not an attention deficit. You have plenty of attention. It just flows to what's interesting, not what's important. 3. Procrastination is almost never laziness. It's often emotional avoidance: fear of failing, fear of being judged, fear of what happens if it actually works. 4. Sometimes you call it procrastination, but it's protection. If you never fully try, a failure can never prove you're broken. 5. The difference between "I am lazy" and "I have a belief that says I'm lazy" is everything. One is a life sentence. The other is code you can rewrite. 6. You are not the voice in your head. You're the one who hears it. Don't fight it, don't believe it. Just stop giving it your attention. 7. You're not too sensitive. You're exactly as sensitive as a brain that feels everything at full volume. That same intensity is what makes fast change possible. 8. Anxiety lives in the future. Depression lives in the past. The only place you can change anything is right now. 9. Falling isn't the problem. Everyone falls. The only skill that matters is how fast you get back up. 10. Never miss two days in a row. One missed day is life happening. Two missed days is the start of a new identity. 11. Sleep is the first domino. Fix your sleep and willpower, focus and mood start fixing themselves. 12. If you can drink coffee at night and still fall asleep, that's not a superpower. It means you're chronically exhausted. 13. Movement isn't about fitness. It's about regulation. Thirty minutes of moving your body buys you hours of focus, for free. 14. Every workout is evidence that you can do hard things. You're not just training your body. You're training your self-image. 15. A sugary breakfast means your motivation is gone before lunch. Protein and healthy fats first. Boring advice that changes everything. 16. Cheap dopamine is borrowed energy. Scrolling, sugar, staying up late: you always pay it back tomorrow, with interest. 17. Willpower is a battery. Systems keep working when you're tired. Phone in another room beats "I won't check my phone" every time. 18. Your brain doesn't freeze on tasks. It freezes on unclear tasks. Shrink the first step until it takes one minute. 19. Starting is the hardest part, not the work itself. Once you're in, hyperfocus carries you. So engineer the start, not the whole task. 20. Clarity is not adding more. Clarity is selection plus subtraction. Pick two things that matter. Park the rest. 21. You can do anything, but you can't do everything. So decide. 22. If it's not an obvious yes, it's a no. Your future self will thank you for everything you declined. 23. Stop looking at the nouns, start looking at the verbs. Hobbies change every few weeks. The drive underneath them, creating, solving, connecting, has been the same since you were a kid. That's your compass. 24. You're not scattered. You're a polymath. Your weird mix of interests isn't the problem to fix. It's the formula. 25. Being good at something is not the same as being built for it. Good is the enemy of great. 26. You can't out-affirm an old story about yourself. You can only out-evidence it. Every small action is a vote for who you're becoming. 27. Success feels unsafe when it doesn't match your self-image. That's why you blow things up right before the breakthrough. Change the self-image and the sabotage stops. 28. You become the average of the five people closest to you. Find the ones playing the long game. Let go of the ones who keep you small. 29. It all works from the inside out. Your thoughts become things, and your world is a mirror of your inner state. Change who you believe you are, and your life has no choice but to reorganize itself to match.

I realized something this month: I always thought I had to feel calm and rested before I could create. Then, in the middle of my most chaotic month in ages, I broke through on a screenplay scene on a Saturday morning and couldn't stop thinking about it. The writing doesn't wait for the calm. The writing is part of what makes the calm. That reframe changes everything for me. This Monthly Mirror option on the Continuation program is HUGE. I'm in it for the long haul. I've had so many things changing in my life this past month (hormone medication dosage and supplement adjustments by my doctor, extra demands on my time, on top of family things ) and I didn't know how I was going to track what is working and what needs adjusting. It was overwhelming. This Monthly Mirror is what I've needed @Jim Ebbelaar . Thank you! 🙏

I've been out of my routine on and off for several weeks due to days spent out of town without access to a computer. That's put me out of the habit of daily check-ins, which I've missed. I'm re-committing today. I'm going to check in every morning (and any evening I can make happen, too.) The systems ADHD Harmony has helped me put in place have been like a scaffolding that has held me up through the past month. Jim's systems work. The protocols work if you customize them to your goals and implement them. And because I need to hear it again myself today, it's not about being perfect, it's about coming back. We've got this.

I'm claiming something new, and I want to share it with you. From now on, Mondays are MY days. 🙌 Not the day I catch up on everyone else's needs. Not the day I disappear under the laundry, the to-do list, the endless caretaking. My day. Here's what that means 👇 ✨ I consciously build in the things that matter to me. ✨ I gently push back the things others ask of me. ✨ I put myself at the very top of my own to-do list, so I stop falling through the cracks. 🕳️➡️🌟 Because here's what I've learned: if I don't choose myself on purpose, there's only ever a scrap of time left. And I refuse to live like that. 💛 So this Monday, at least a few things that are important to ME are going to happen. On purpose. No permission needed. Who's with me? Tell me one thing you'd put on YOUR day. 👇 #MondayMyDay