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#51 - Ian Mai: ADHD, Going off Adderall, and the Messy Middle: Healing from Trauma and Burnout

Christie Hoffman

I sit down with ADHD & self-mastery coach Ian Mai just days after coming off Adderall for the first time in over 10 years.

This episode isn’t about bashing medication (it helped me — until it didn’t). It’s about coming home to yourself. It’s about getting real with the patterns beneath our hyper-productivity. And it’s about the terrifying, necessary, beautiful work of finding yourself again after pushing so hard.

We go way beyond dopamine and planners, and dive into:

  • The deeper reasons we can’t focus or follow through
  • What impulsivity is trying to protect
  • Why medication helps — but might be masking deeper wounds
  • The trauma hiding inside our “high performance”
  • ADHD, shame, systems, and how we learned to abandon ourselves
  • Emotional safety, breathwork, and body-based healing
  • The loneliness (and power) of doing life differently

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