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Adhd & her OT for ADHD Women & Teen Girls.

If the thought of Year 7 is keeping you awake, this is why I do what I do.Comment ‘HEADSUP’ and I’ll send you the free g...
03/08/2026

If the thought of Year 7 is keeping you awake, this is why I do what I do.

Comment ‘HEADSUP’ and I’ll send you the free guide: The High School Heads Up - the twelve things high school quietly assumes your ADHD child can already do, and where to start.

I was the ADHD girl who was in trouble a lot. Busy, impulsive, couldn’t sit still, carrying “just try harder” around like a backpack I couldn’t take off.

Then high school arrived and it didn’t feel like a step up. It felt like a cliff. Nobody joined the dots between the ADHD and how hard I was finding it.

I don’t think anyone did anything wrong. My folks had the facts but access to tools and strategies was tough back then. That’s what’s different now. The tools exist, and your instinct to start early is exactly the right one.

Comment HEADSUP and I’ll send it over.

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These are six skills out of twelve in the HIGH SCHOOL READINESS screener.Comment “SCREENER” and I will send you the link...
31/07/2026

These are six skills out of twelve in the HIGH SCHOOL READINESS screener.

Comment “SCREENER” and I will send you the link.

$12, about ten minutes to get a readiness snapshot for your kid. Run it again at the start of each term and watch what shifts.

The additional six skills I did not have room for:
Attention & Focus.
Time & Time Management.
Keeping Track of Their Things.
Sleep, Food & Movement.
Puberty, Hormones & the Cycle.
Running Their Own Day.

You do not need to work on everything.
You need to know which two or three to start with.

The High School Readiness Screener walks you through all twelve and shows you which are already solid for your child and which need a bit of attention. Not a diagnosis. A place to start.

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Comment “CHECK IN” and I’ll send you the free Regulation Check-In. It might be the first time it all makes sense.I never...
05/06/2026

Comment “CHECK IN” and I’ll send you the free Regulation Check-In. It might be the first time it all makes sense.

I never thought the kid who couldn’t sit still would grow up to be the OT helping other women and girls understand their own nervous systems.

I wasn’t too much. I wasn’t lacking discipline. I just had no language for what my body was doing, and no one to give it to me.

That’s the whole reason ADHD and Her exists. So women and girls with ADHD, and the parents and carers raising girls who have it, don’t spend years thinking they’re the problem.



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Comment CHECKIN and I’ll send you the Regulation Check-In Tool (for free 🙌)When your ADHD girl goes from zero to a hundr...
05/06/2026

Comment CHECKIN and I’ll send you the Regulation Check-In Tool (for free 🙌)

When your ADHD girl goes from zero to a hundred over something small, or goes quiet and won’t come out of her room, the instinct is to manage the behaviour. Calm her down. Get her to talk. Fix it.

But a high energy state and a low energy state need opposite things. One needs to down-regulate, the other needs to up-regulate. Use the same approach for both and it can backfire. Trying to settle her when she needs lifting, or pushing her when she needs to come down.

This isn’t about getting it wrong. When her nervous system tips outside its window of capacity, it can be harder for an ADHD girl to find her way back. That’s information, not a problem.

So before the behaviour, I’d check which state she’s in. That one read changes what you do next.

I built a free regulation check-in tool that helps you notice her nervous system state, and points to what might help right then.

Comment CHECKIN and I’ll send it straight to you.

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05/06/2026

I’m a registered OT. I also have ADHD. I was diagnosed at nine.

For most of my life I thought I was too much, too sensitive, too all over the place, and that if I just tried harder I’d finally hold it together.

It was never discipline I was missing. It was understanding what my nervous system was doing, and what it needed.

Once I had that, the snapping and the shame spiral afterwards started to loosen. Not because I fixed myself. Because I finally understood myself.

🌟I made a free, reusable, 2min Regulation Check-in. It names what state your nervous system, or your daughter’s, might be in right now, and what it might need in that moment.

Comment CHECKIN and I’ll send it over.



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02/06/2026

🌟Seeing what is underneath these behaviours, can make the moments feel a little less personal. Let’s break it down:

1️⃣“I don’t care.” Often armour. ADHD teen girls carry so much perceived failure that deciding something does not matter protects her from the sting of trying.

2️⃣Snapping at the people she loves. She has held it together for everyone else all day, so the people she feels safest with get the overflow. It is rarely about manners. It is a nervous system that has run out of capacity.

3️⃣A big reaction to something small. Her available capacity may be drained by the end of the day, so a small thing becomes the last straw rather than the whole story.

4️⃣Laughing one minute, sobbing the next. When she is flooded, she often cannot bring herself back down yet. She is not being dramatic, she is looking for the brakes.

5️⃣Disappearing into her room or her phone. Not always the same thing. Sometimes she is coming down after a busy day and needs quiet. Sometimes she has slipped too low and needs gentle activation, movement, light, connection, to lift her back up.

6️⃣The meltdown she saves for home. She has masked all day, and home is where she feels safe enough to let it out. The hard stuff lands on you because you are her safe place.

❤️If any of this sounds like your girl, you are not alone, and neither is she. It is a nervous system working hard in a world that asks a lot of her.

❤️Save this for the next hard day, and send it to a mum who needs to see it.



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01/06/2026

⏱️ADHD brains are often ‘time blind’. Time feels like either now or not now, which means homework can feel like an endless open void with no clear end point.

🫠Constantly trying to manage invisible time can create anxiety. Anxiety can = dysregulation. And a dysregulated nervous system drains capacity fast, leaving nothing left for the actual work.

🌟A visual timer makes time visible. A Pomodoro structure gives it a container. Together they change homework hour.

👉Comment TIMER and I’ll send you the free Pomodoro worksheet to use tonight.

Also…I have no affiliate with this visual timer company. It’s just the one I bought and use…everyday 😊



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31/05/2026

My fidget reel clearly struck a nerve with teachers, and I’ve read every comment.

Here’s the thing. You’re right. Squishies being traded and flicked across a room is a nightmare to manage, and that environment is yours to protect. The word I used, ‘smuggle’, was the wrong one. It framed kids against teachers, and that was never what I meant.

What I want parents and teachers to hear is this. Sensory input doesn’t have to be a fidget. And regulation doesn’t start in the classroom. It starts in the small moments all through the day, when we teach kids to notice what their nervous system needs before they hit the wall.

👉That’s the whole reason I built my Regulation Toolkit. Sixty +tools, and so many are not with physical objects.

🙏Teachers, I’d love to hear what actually helps in your room. Tell me below.

*This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical or therapeutic advice.

🧠When her ADHD brain is running on empty, everything feels harder. Focus drops, emotions spike, staying regulated takes ...
28/05/2026

🧠When her ADHD brain is running on empty, everything feels harder. Focus drops, emotions spike, staying regulated takes twice the effort.

🌮Food is part of that picture. Not in a “eat clean, fix your brain” way. Just, your nervous system needs fuel. And protein helps stabilise blood sugar and support the brain chemicals that keep things steady.

Getting food into your teen in the morning is its own challenge, especially when medication suppresses appetite. Start small. Add what you can.

🍒The goal isn’t a perfect breakfast. It’s consistent fuel.

👉If you want to understand more about what helps your daughter’s nervous system regulate throughout the day, My Regulation Toolkit: Teen Girls Edition is worth a look. Link in bio.



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