Organizing an ADHD Brain
This Podcast is about what it's like to have ADHD and different techniques people can apply to their life to find their own version of what organized means. Megs is a professional organizer coach with ADHD and shares how organizing your brain, while understanding how it works, provides the key to living your best life.
Episodes
111 episodes
Why Is Change So Hard? (Even When You Want It)
Drawing from The Charisma Myth and her work coaching adults with ADHD, Megs breaks down why lasting change requires both a clear vision and a deep belief that you're capable of it. She exp...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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35:51
Two ADHD Brains, One Household: Kendall's Tools for Couples and Cloudy Days
If you've ever struggled to explain a hard mental health moment to your child — or wondered how to hold your ADHD brain together as a parent — this episode is for you.Megs sits down with Kendall, mental health advocate and children's boo...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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37:52
Weight Loss, Sobriety, and Decluttering: The Messy Middle is the Point
If you've ever started a weight loss journey, tried to declutter your home, or attempted to quit a habit — and felt like you were doing it "wrong" because it wasn't linear or easy — this episode is for you. As an ADHD coach for women, Megs Craw...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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38:17
Why Art Actually Fills You Up: The ADHD Brain on Color and Creativity with Eli Trier
🔁 Rerun from Fall 2024 — still so good, we had to bring it back.If you've ever felt guilty for loving color, keeping "too much," or struggling to maintain a minimalist space — this episode is your permission slip.Megs sit...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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42:03
ADHD and Flow State: How to Focus in a World Built to Distract You
Book: Deep WorkLearn more about Sukha:Join Steven's Flow State AppContact Steven: steven@thesukh.coIn this episode of Or...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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59:08
Choosing Hope Instead of Avoidance with ADHD
In this episode, Megs explores organizing through the lens of ADHD, nervous system regulation, and the human need for comfort during difficult times. She shares a personal story about losing her childhood blankie to illustrate how comfort objec...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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29:58
Learning to Let Life Be Messy (Without Giving Up on Yourself)
Motherhood. Neurodivergence. Work-from-home life. Burnout. And that uncomfortable in-between season where nothing is falling apart… but nothing feels settled either.This episode is a deep exhale for anyone living in the messy...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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47:09
How Do You React to Your Clutter?
The Power of Noticing: Transforming Your Reactions to Clutter and LifeIn this episode, Megs—ADHD coach and professional organizer—dives into the practice of noticing as the true starting point for meaningful change. Before declutt...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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36:00
Money Without Shame: A Starting Point for ADHD Brains
In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, Megs is joined by financial therapist Lindsay for an honest conversation about money, debt, and personal growth for ADHD brains.If you’ve ever felt shame around finances, struggl...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:00:27
Starting Over Again in The New Year with ADHD
Why consistency doesn’t work for ADHD brains — and how learning to come back without shame creates real change.If you’ve ever felt like you can’t stick with anything — routines, organizing, decluttering, goals, or New Year’s res...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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32:27
The ADHD Stuck Cycle: What Keeps You Looping and What Actually Shifts It
You know that moment when you walk into a room and your whole body reacts before your brain even has time to make sense of it? That’s what today’s episode is really about, how clutter hits the nervous system first, and how that shapes ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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30:09
Curiosity Over Perfection: Navigating ADHD with Behavior Insight
In today’s episode, you’ll meet Anishia Denee — a board certified behaviour analyst, ADHD coach, and founder of Authentic Self ADHD Coaching. She helps adults make sense of their patterns, shift from shame into curiosity, and bu...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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39:12
Living Two Truths: Gratitude and Change in an ADHD Life
In this Thanksgiving-week episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, I’m inviting you into a very real season of my life — the messy middle of moving across the country with my husband, and everything that stirred up inside me.If you’...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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29:53
Cringe Goals and Tiny Wins: Reframing Progress with ADHD
In this solo episode, Megs opens up about her family’s big move, her husband’s new job, and the messy middle of rebuilding routines, dreams, and self-trust. She shares why traditional goal setting can feel so cringey and overwhelming for ADHD b...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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26:03
Before You Add to Cart: How to Avoid Holiday Clutter (with ADHD)
In this solo episode, Megs hits record to talk about the messy middle of the holidays—when ADHD brains slide into fight-or-flight, carts fill up fast, and unopened boxes blend into the clutter we’re trying to escape. She reframes gifting season...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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29:36
Letting Go with Love: Grief, Keepsakes, and Tiny-Home Dreams with Carolyn
Megs talks with her former client and friend, Carolyn Bedingfield, about decluttering later in life, moving through grief, and building self-trust one choice at a time. Carolyn shares how she emptied a decades-old storage unit, honored her late...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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40:51
Make a Full Decision: The ADHD Cure for Clutter and Overwhelm
In this solo episode, Megs dives into one of the most common habits that keeps ADHDers stuck in clutter and chaos: delayed decisions. From piles of unopened mail to half-finished laundry and unmade choices about what stays or goes, every postpo...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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28:52
It’s Uncomfortable and It’s Worth It: ADHD Regulation with BFRB Coach Laura Hope
Megs welcomes BFRB and habit coach Laura Hope to talk about what really helps in the messy middle: regulation over restriction. They unpack Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (hair pulling, skin/nail/cheek picking, etc.) as the ADHD brain’s Swis...
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50:57
ADHD, Perfectionism, and Clutter: 8 Things I Wish My Friends and Family Understood
In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, host Megs Crawford shares eight powerful truths about the ADHD brain. From being mislabeled as “lazy” to struggling with perfectionism, overcommitting, and the exhaustion of masking as “orga...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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40:17
Half-A$$ing Is Better Than No-A$$ing: ADHD and the Art of Progress
Motivation fades, life gets chaotic, but the messy middle doesn’t have to stop your progress.Russ Jones is back for the third time, making him the very first three-peat guest on the podcast—and for good reason. As an ADHD...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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49:45
Organizing with ADHD: Finding Your Why and Building New Systems
In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, Megs Crawford kicks off Season 3 with a deeply personal look at “the messy middle” of change. She shares her family’s recent move from Colorado to the East Coast, emphasizing the challenges ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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30:56
Season 3: Navigating the Messy Middle, Finding Clarity in the Chaos
Welcome to Season 3 of Organizing an ADHD Brain with professional organizer coach Megs Crawford. This season, Megs dives into the “messy middle” of change by sharing real-life stories, strategies, and encouragement to help you navigate...
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Season 3
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5:23
ADHD-Friendly Recycling & Decluttering Guide
Support the show by getting the Download for today's episode or the Daily TO-DO list planner on Megs' website here: Organizing an ADHD Brain ShopIn this episode of...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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32:15
Why You Can’t Do It All: ADHD, Time Blindness, and Letting Things Go
Megs discusses the importance of letting go, prioritizing tasks, and understanding the concept of time blindness. Using relatable analogies like an overloaded internet browser and a cluttered garden, she provides actionable advice to help you d...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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37:29