Toolkit Episode: Understanding our ADHD hormone cycles, body's wisdom and intuition with Samantha Hadadi
Samantha Hadadi is a women’s health and hormone coach, empowering women to trust their bodies through womb wisdom, and teaching them to heal their periods and balance their hormones.
In this exclusive interview, Samantha compassionately discusses how we can better understand our periods, PMS/PMDD, womb healing, emotional scaffolding, and how to nurture our energy throughout our cycles and seasons—all through the lens of ADHD.
On this episode of The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Toolkit, Kate and Samantha discuss:
Seeking support with periods and hormonal issues
Understand why hormonal issues are dismissed as ‘normal’ when they can actually be signs of imbalance – and learn to address this.
Understanding your menstrual cycle.
Recognise the characteristics of your period blood to gain valuable insight into your hormonal health.
Living cyclically
Learn to transform your life by embracing – rather than fighting – the natural ebbs and flows of your hormones.
Managing hormonal symptoms.
Uncover the natural remedies – such as castor oil packs, ginger, turmeric and magnesium – that help you take control of your hormonal health.
Healing intergenerational trauma.
Discover how emotional/womb healing can have a profound impact on hormonal balance.
Interview timestamps
How we can start to decode our periods and the effect stress has on our hormones. (6:06)
Learning to live cyclically with hormones and listening to our intuition, energy and emotions. (10:59)
Advice for women who are struggling with their hormones including practical tools and exercises. (16:27)
The link between endometriosis and autism and ADHD. (22:06)
Natural remedies for perimenopause. (27:10)
Learning about ourselves in midlife and how ADHD is a permission slip to change. (32:46)
Intergenerational trauma and its impact on women. (38:36)
Connect with Samantha here on Instagram.
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Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.