ADHD with Angie

ADHD with Angie Advanced Certified ADHD Life Coach. Proud ADHD’er. Host of the ADHD Scapegoat Podcast.

12/24/2025

Do you feel emotions 10x more intensely than the people around you? Does a small criticism feel like a physical attack on your safety?

✅ The Science: How the ADHD brain is wired to feel anger and hurt more intensely.
✅ The "Hijack": What happens when the amygdala shuts down your ability to think clearly.
✅ RSD Reality: Why the body responds to emotional rejection like a physical threat.
✅ The Scapegoat Layer: How negative family messaging creates a cycle of overwhelm and defeat.

Stop blaming yourself for how you feel. Watch this to understand the wiring behind the emotion. 👇

Ready to find out how you can benefit from ADHD Coaching? Let's connect: https://adhdwithangie.com/

12/23/2025

Does your brain lack a "pause" button? Do small tasks like choosing an outfit or seeing a pile of laundry spiral into a full-blown shutdown? 🤯

In this clip from the ADHD Scapegoat Podcast, we dissect the anatomy of ADHD overwhelm. It’s not just about being disorganized—it is a collision of executive dysfunction, sensory overload, and unmanaged emotions.

We discuss why "visual clutter" drains your battery, why tight clothes can ruin your day, and how the cycle of guilt and shame sets you up for failure.

In this video, you’ll learn:

✅ The Executive Function Gap: How deficits in planning and emotional control trigger overwhelm.
✅ Sensory Triggers: Why noise, lights, and even annoying clothing tags deplete your focus.
✅ Decision Paralysis: Why we overthink simple choices and cannot turn our thoughts off.
✅ The Burnout Cycle: How skipping downtime leads to emotional dysregulation and shame.

Stop the cycle of exhaustion and guilt. Watch now to understand what is actually happening in your brain. 👇

12/22/2025

Have you ever felt like your anxiety or "rituals" were just a desperate attempt to gain control over a chaotic brain? 🧠

In this raw clip from the ADHD Scapegoat Podcast, we explore the complex reality of receiving an ADHD diagnosis after 28 years of being misunderstood. We discuss how easy it is to mistake ADHD coping mechanisms—like strict routines or OCD-like tendencies—for the disorder itself, and why antidepressants often fail when the root cause is neurodivergence.

In this video, we cover:

✅ The shock of a therapist finally asking the right questions about childhood.

✅ Why undiagnosed ADHD can look like OCD (and why we build those rituals).

✅ The "Diagnosis Rollercoaster": Moving from Relief to Anger to Grief, and finally, Acceptance.

✅ The power of finally putting a name to your struggle so you can stop grasping at straws.

If you are grieving the years you spent struggling without support, you are not alone. Watch this to validate your journey. 👇

If you, your child, or your employee are struggling with ADHD, please reach out to learn how you can benefit from ADHD coaching: https://adhdwithangie.com/

12/19/2025

Are you exhausted by school forms and family members labeling your child’s struggles as "bad behavior"?

In this clip from the ADHD Scapegoat Podcast, we break down the 3 non-negotiable "Core Actions" for raising happy, successful ADHD kids, as outlined by leading expert Dr. Russell Barkley.

We discuss why the traditional view of ADHD as a "behavioral problem" is failing our kids and how to make the crucial shift toward understanding it as a brain-based neurological disorder.

In this video, you will learn:
✅ Dr. Barkley’s 3 steps: Acceptance, Mitigating Executive Dysfunction, and Expecting Mistakes.
✅ Why you must stop trying to "change" your child to help them thrive.
✅ How to dismantle the "bad parenting" stigma and move from a reactive approach to a compassionate lens.

It’s time to stop fighting the symptoms and start supporting the brain.

Instead of our usual new episode today, we’re doing something a little different.The end of the year is heavy & we know ...
12/19/2025

Instead of our usual new episode today, we’re doing something a little different.

The end of the year is heavy & we know your nervous system is likely feeling the weight of it all. So, we’re spending the next two weeks highlighting the moments that resonated with you the most.

This week we'll be sharing our most popular shorts on ADHD. Next week, we’ll dive back into your favorite moments on Scapegoating Abuse.

New episodes will return in the New Year. Until then, use this time to catch up, re-watch the parts that hit home & most importantly - take a beat to breathe. We’re giving ourselves the same grace we offer: time for rest, time for genuine connection & time to reflect.

Stay tuned for more. 🎧

Between the horrific headlines of the last week & the invisible, grinding work of healing your own childhood trauma, it'...
12/18/2025

Between the horrific headlines of the last week & the invisible, grinding work of healing your own childhood trauma, it's understandable to feel completely overextended.

As a highly sensitive person, you don’t have the luxury of "just watching" the news. You absorb it. You feel the collective grief in your bones, & when that is layered on top of your own personal exhaustion, it can feel like there is no air left in the room.
You are trying to build a safe inner world while the outer world feels increasingly volatile.

Coaching Tip for the Deep Feelers like me:
When your capacity is reached, your only job is to protect your peace.
🔸 Aggressive Sensory Rest: This isn't just "relaxing." It is a strategic withdrawal. Turn off the notifications. Put the phone away. Turn OFF the news. Close the tabs. Your nervous system cannot heal while it is being actively flooded by the present.
🔸 The "Inner Circle" Check: Seek out genuine connection with the few who feel like safety. One honest conversation with someone who sees you is worth more than a thousand hours of scrolling.
🔸 Honoring Your Healing: You are doing the heavy lifting of breaking generational cycles. That work requires immense energy. If all you did today was survive the news & keep your heart soft, you have done enough. 💜

We manage life by remembering that we cannot pour from a cup that has been shattered by the world. It’s okay to step back & mend the pieces. 🧠 🐐

12/17/2025

When you ask for space, support, or healthier communication and get punished for it, that’s not a boundary problem—it’s a control problem. Narcissists hear reasonable needs as threats because meeting your needs means losing power. Learn how to spot the difference between healthy boundaries and toxic entitlement before self-advocacy gets framed as “being demanding.”

They don't hear a question - they hear exposure. The aggressive, defensive response you get after asking a simple, non-h...
12/16/2025

They don't hear a question - they hear exposure.

The aggressive, defensive response you get after asking a simple, non-hostile question is the pathological liar's brain punishing your curiosity.
That immediate attack ("Don't try to control me!" or "You're crazy!") is proof that your brain is correctly identifying the holes (absence of truth) in their made up reality.

See it clearly. Stop letting them shame you for seeking truth.
And know you decide who can have access to you. No liars allowed. 🧠 🐐

The second they accuse you of "creating your own story," they are weaponizing projection to avoid accountability. Period...
12/16/2025

The second they accuse you of "creating your own story,"
they are weaponizing projection to avoid accountability.

Period. 🧠 🐐

They know they've been caught in a lie, & their only defense is to shame you for speaking the truth.
You didn't create the story; you simply noticed the parts in theirs that don't add up.

12/15/2025

If a calm, reasonable conversation suddenly triggers an explosive reaction, it’s not confusion—it’s control slipping. Narcissistic rage often shows up the moment you stop accommodating, because your clarity and helpfulness threaten their access to control and supply. This is how “just trying to talk it out” exposes the real power struggle underneath.

You bring one simple concern & suddenly you are blamed for everything THEY ARE DOING. It's so insane. You are not starti...
12/15/2025

You bring one simple concern & suddenly you are blamed for everything THEY ARE DOING. It's so insane.

You are not starting drama when you are the one pointing out their drama.
That dizzying feeling of being attacked for the very thing they did or are doing is maddening.

They actually believe they have the right to be cruel & you have to be silent.
The second you break the silence, they begin gaslighting & projecting everything onto you.

That confirms their intent was never connection - just control.
Protect yourself. Leave them in their delusions.

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You come to them operating from a place of WE. They instantly jump into ME vs. YOU. 🧠 🐐 When you ask them to change a ha...
12/11/2025

You come to them operating from a place of WE.
They instantly jump into ME vs. YOU. 🧠 🐐

When you ask them to change a harmful behavior, they take it as a personal attack on their character.
You're talking about the BEHAVIOR. But THEY ALWAYS ATTACK YOUR CHARACTER, so they hear YOU attacking their character.

& instant defense & deflection are how they punish you for daring to bring up a factual relationship concern.

When you are left in confusion, that was their intention. Confusion is how they ensure you never ask for accountability again.

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