10: How to Regulate Your ADHD Nervous System During Hard Times
10: How to Regulate Your ADHD Nervous System During Hard Times  
Podcast: ADHD with Jenna Free
Published On: Mon Jun 02 2025
Description: When something genuinely hard happens, your ADHD nervous system makes it harder. Because a dysregulated brain is working against the exact thinking you need most. This episode is for anyone with ADHD who is in the middle of a hard season and can't figure out why regulation feels so out of reach. I get into why your brain might actually be holding onto the dysregulation, including the guilt of feeling calm when you think you shouldn't be, what ADHD survival mode is for and why it's useless for most modern problems, and how fighting reality keeps your prefrontal cortex offline when you need it to solve things. Regulation won't take the hard away. But it can take the layer of ADHD fight-or-flight response off the top so you can actually move. 00:00 - Regulating Through Big Life Events vs. Everyday ADHD 01:19 - Are You Justifying Your Dysregulation? 08:03 - ADHD Survival Mode and Why It Backfires 13:28 - Fighting Reality vs. Accepting It 17:24 - How to Use These Points When You're Ready Check out the full show notes and other resources at https://jennafree.com/blog/adhd-nervous-system-regulation-during-hard-times Let's stay connected! You can get your new and improved free ADHD Reset Guide here: adhdwithjennafree.com/adhdguide Want more thriving with ADHD? Come hang out with me on Instagram! Get out of paralysis, be more productive, and enjoy your life again! Join an upcoming group!