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Foreign-Born Mama | Trauma Healing, Transforming Parenting, Marriage and Relationships
NOTE: The podcast is currently on pause. Feel free to explore past episodes!!.
Have you ever felt like you're doing everything right — but still feel disconnected, stuck, and, well, unhappy?
You're not alone.
I'm Nurjan Sterbenz — a foreign-born mama and trauma-informed coach who spent years chasing happiness and success outside of myself, not realizing I had to stop looking for external solutions and start doing the internal work. I needed to heal the trauma that kept me stuck in chronic exhaustion, anxiety, and overwhelm — impacting negatively my marriage, relationships, and parenting.
Welcome to Foreign-Born Mama — where we learn to heal trauma and transform our parenting, marriages, and lives.
Each week, we'll explore:
- How trauma secretly impacts every area of your life
- Why healing is the key to unlocking everything you desire
- Real tools and practices you can use to start healing today
- Inspiring conversations with experts and moms who've healed and transformed their lives
Healing is possible. The life you truly desire — filled with peace, joy, love, health and wealth — is waiting for you on the other side of healing.
It's time we heal, rise, and thrive as foreign-born mamas!
Join our free Foreign-Born Mama Community on Facebook to connect with other moms and begin your healing journey.
Want to connect further? Find me on Instagram → instagram.com/foreignbornmama
To learn more about me and how I can support you, visit foreignbornmama.com
Foreign-Born Mama | Trauma Healing, Transforming Parenting, Marriage and Relationships
Do I have ADHD or Anxiety?
This week I talk about anxiety. There’s so much that we don’t know about it yet, and it can be very similar to ADHD. It can affect our personal lives and our parenting. So, how we can spot it? What can we do about it? I share so much more in this episode!
About a year and a half ago, I was listening to a talk by Mel Robbins. She was talking about how girls go undetected for ADHD because the symptoms are so different from symptoms in boys. Boys tend to be very hyper, jumpy, and active and in girls, the symptoms are almost the opposite. Girls will be really quiet and cannot focus.
When she mentioned that, I was curious about it, and I got the book that Mel mentioned. I started reading about ADHD and I resonated with a lot of stories in the book. At that time, I was struggling with focusing on tasks. I sent an email to my doctor that I might have ADHD. After I passed the screening for ADHD, I was put on medication for ADHD.
In this episode, I discuss more about how what I was experiencing was not actually ADHD, but it was anxiety. The symptoms were so similar! I talk more about how anxiety can manifest itself in the body and how nuanced it can be for different people. I share more about how anxiety affects my personal life, but I also share some techniques that have been very helpful for me to take care of myself.
Book I mentioned on ADHD: “Driven to Distraction” by Edward Hallowell.
I would love to hear from you!
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