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#80: How to Navigate ADHD with a Vision Driven Life

• Cathy Struecker • Season 3 • Episode 80

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There are 3 things an ADHD mind needs something to be in order to stay focused on it. That thing has to be interesting, important and have a sense of urgency to it. Those rules likely apply to anyone, even if you don't have ADHD, but unfortunately not everything in life meets those criteria, and when it doesn't, you have to have a plan to stay focused.  

In today's episode, you'll learn:

  • What a "vibe care" toolkit is and why you need one even if you don't have ADHD
  • How to navigate life & feel successful in whatever you do while living with ADHD
  • Why a living a Vision Driven life is ideal if you're a mom living with ADHD

ADHD is seemingly a much more common thing for adults, especially moms, to be diagnosed with.  As mom, we have so much going on in our brains and often it can feel like it's very hard to focus on all of them, even more so if you have ADHD.

"When you have ADHD, we, we tend to feel our way through life.   We feel so much in our bodies.  we're feeling all of the natural rhythms of the moon and planets as well as all from all of our senses, that we tend to go up into our, into our heads. So we feel, and then we go up into our heads and then we get into a mess. Bringing ourselves back down into the body is where we can take care of it."    - Tracy

Tracy Nolin Beerman helps moms with ADHD declutter their minds and forge an empowered path forward through her powerful workshops, courses, programs and the Vision Driven Mom With ADHD podcast, even if they have a million other things in their brilliant, unique minds.  

She whole-heartedly believes that it’s possible to have ADHD without ADHD having you.

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Cathy:

There are three things an ADHD mind needs something to be in order to stay focused on it. That thing has to be interesting, important and have a sense of urgency to it. Those rules likely apply to anyone, even if you don't have ADHD. But unfortunately not everything in life meets those criteria. And when it doesn't, you have to have a plan to stay focused. hey friends, welcome to episode 80 of the podcast. So glad you are here. The solstice was last week, but just because it's over doesn't mean you can't still fully embrace the energy of summer. As we are completely in the midst of summer and summer craziness right now, at least I know we are at my house with different routines, different schedules. And sometimes that means it feels a little bit chaotic or crazy and that's okay. That's absolutely. Okay. But I want you to know that. We absolutely can still fully embrace the energy of summer, even if the solstice is already over. The energy of summer is one that means we get to celebrate that things are blooming and highly energetic and beginning to release and slowly turn inward. Expansive and contractive at the same time. And I put together a little tool to help you do this, to help you fully embrace that energy of summer. It's called the solstice celebration of rhythms planner. And I used it last week at the solstice celebration of rhythms event that I held that was an in-person event. And also, I want you to have access to that as well. It's technically a one day kind of planner that guides you through how you can honor the dualistic energies of summer with simple things that you can do either by yourself or with your kids. Because as I was saying a moment ago, I know what it's like to get stuck in the busy-ness trance or the trance of doing all the time, especially when kids are at home and schedules or routines are not consistent. So this little tool gives you permission to give back to yourself, to pour back into yourself. Even involving the kids, if you choose to do so. So that you can feel more in flow. With your time, energy and focus even when life is not so routine. They're just little connection pieces that you can use. Check it out. If you haven't already I'll drop the link in the show notes, or you can find it at cairnyogawellness.com/summersolsticeplanner. Summer really can feel crazy and like you have no control, as if you really do have control over anything but yourself anyway, but just because of that, because I know how you're feeling in this instance, and here, I'm speaking to myself as well, because I go through these moments where I'm feeling the same way. I just want to give you a little bit of encouragement if you're feeling like you're not getting the things done that you had wanted to, or that you expected to during this time, you've got this, keep going. The rhythm of summer is definitely different, but it doesn't mean you can't still feel like you're getting things done and flowing with life, even if it's hard to focus because you want to be doing all the things with your kids, or maybe just because you want to be playing hooky and sitting by the pool. Consider that it might just be that you are being given an opportunity to evolve your way of thinking into one that can acknowledge and accept the present moment as it is. And let yourself off the hook a little bit. To be okay with trusting the rhythm you are in, instead of trying to control the situations to be how you want them to be. It's okay. If things don't look exactly as you want them to, or think that they should look in your mind. No matter what's happening for you right now. It's part of your life's puzzle and it needs to be here. So each moment you're being given the chance to look at things through the eyes of mindfulness. To use that pause between the situation and the outcome to decide how you want to either react or respond. So here's your little bit of encouragement in that pause. Where something's happening and maybe it's not going exactly as you want it to go. Breathe. Then move forward, taking aligned action with what's essential to your highest good. Breathe and respond instead of react. You've got this. You will make it through summer. But instead of thinking that you just have to make it through summer with your kids around you or your kids at home, or the kids craziness or the craziness of schedules and lack of, of regular routine. Embrace it be with it. Know that this too can be here, say yes to it and allow it. It gives it space to breathe. It gives it space to just be in your life. And once you do that, once you stop resisting. life flows. You stop trying to control. And you allow. You trust? Life can flow. Right. Now that doesn't mean that you don't have any boundaries or you don't have limits. Not that at all. It just means that. You're not trying to grasp, trying to hold on so tightly to this idea that you might have in your mind. So embrace and be in this rhythm of summer, the rhythm that is both expansive and contractive and believe it or not, we talk a little bit more about moving from contractive energy to a more expansive energy. In this episode, actually in today's episode, I continue my conversation with Tracy Nolan, Beerman of the vision driven moms with ADHD podcast. And if you haven't listened to last week's episode, stop this episode right now and click on last week's episode instead. And listen to it first. It's going to give you some background info that you might find helpful when listening to today's episode. So there are three things and ADHD mind needs something to be in order to stay focused on it. That thing has to be interesting, important and have a sense of urgency to it. But when that doesn't happen, you're likely to lose focus and bounce around from task to task. Eventually moving into a contracted, frustrated and overwhelmed state because nothing is getting done. And the key to getting out of this state is to flow into an expansive state so that you can come back to a place of focus and feeling successful, whatever that might look like to you. And that's what Tracy and I are talking about as we continue our conversation about ADHD today. In today's episode, you'll learn what a vibe care toolkit is and why you need one, even if you don't have ADHD. How to navigate life and feel successful in whatever you do while living with ADHD and why living a vision driven life is ideal if you're a mom living with ADHD. Enjoy the show. So you're talking about these supports and the supports that, um, you can use and is that what you call vibe Care?

Tracy:

That is, that is part of it. So Vibe care. Vibe care is something that I, um, that I kind of, uh, developed along the way in my own life. And Vibe Care is checking in with yourself throughout the day, right? Not waiting until you're, you're, you're having a panic attack. It's not waiting until you're triggered. It's checking in with yourself throughout the day, knowing yourself enough where you know something's coming, or,"oh, look at that. I'm feeling contractive energy." Right? Contractive energy, that, that, that low vibration energy of, you know, anger or sadness or frustration, overwhelm like to me it feels like, I'm just like, wanna clench my fists and almost wanna go fetal.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

So what with Vibe Care, we're checking in. Checking in. How am I feeling? Am I feeling contractive energy or am I feeling expansive energy?

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

And not stopping if you're feeling expansive, like how does that feel? And practicing that. We wanna be practicing what it feels like to feel good. What it feels like to have expansive energy so that when you're feeling and, and, and feeling that contrast of, oh, this is contract energy, this is expansive. I can feel both, right? I don't have to be stuck in the contract.

Cathy:

Right?

Tracy:

So checking in and then creating what I call a vibe care toolkit, which, um, has all kinds of things in it, um, tools and, and, um, and tricks. That feel good. Right? So sun salutations, they feel good to me. That would be something I'd put in my, in my, um, my vibe care toolkit. Meditation, not meditation. I would call a practice something that you do regularly. Mm-hmm. Meditation is not something that I'm gonna pull in when I'm feeling anxious. Cause to make myself sit in meditation when I'm feeling anxious is not gonna work. Right. My body needs to move, move it out. Silly little things. Like I have chickens. You, you have chickens too, right?

Cathy:

Yeah. Yeah.

Tracy:

Oh, you chickens?

Cathy:

Yep. Absolutely.

Tracy:

So going out and visiting my chickens. So I have to pass my garden on the way. And they are just, I love my chickens. They're delightful. They make me laugh. They make me feel expansive. Does that make sense? So the chicken,

Cathy:

absolutely.

Tracy:

Checking in with yourself. Already deciding what are the things that make me feel good. Not when you're in a moment, oh my gosh, what should I do now? It's, uh, already deciding, deciding ahead of time, these are the things that feel good. These are the, you know, I hula hoop too. I like to hula hoop, so picking up hula hoop. Okay, what do I need? What do I need to feel expansive right now?

Cathy:

It's so much like what I teach people with, with being able to almost anticipate the fact you have, you have to stay on top of it, right? It's almost being able to anticipate. What you're going to be feeling, or that energy that you're going to be feeling or being able to tune into it at the very beginning of it, and then

Tracy:

right.

Cathy:

Taking the action so that you can move through it. And so what I'm hearing you say is you wanna feel expansive, but in a way you also have to do some of the contractive work of taking action because expansive

Tracy:

Right.

Cathy:

Can be thought of as being passive. Right? Like it's opening. Mm-hmm. It's freeing. Mm-hmm. But it's very good and we wanna be living in that state of flowing, and we also have to be taking action, which is contracting the muscle, doing the thing. To make sure that we can stay expansive.

Tracy:

Right?

Cathy:

So it it is also both. And so by taking the action of moving your body, of doing sun Salutations, of visiting the chickens, of um, even if it's pushing a wall or jogging in place, to kind of realize I've gotta break this pattern that is coming on and I need to get back into this emotional regulation. That's what it's finding. Absolutely. That's what goes in your vibe, vibe, care toolkit.

Tracy:

That's it. And it's different. It's different for every person, you know?

Cathy:

Okay. How do you, like, I, I envision this in my mind and maybe, maybe it's similar to an A D H D Mind, but like how do you remember then? Do you keep a list of those? Do you keep those someplace so you know, like, absolutely, yes. I gotta come back to this list and I gotta look, okay, I could do this, I could do sun Salutations right now. Because some of those things, if you don't do them regularly, I would imagine you don't think about'em.

Tracy:

Right, right. Yes. Okay. So a couple of things You mentioned that you don't wanna let to let it go too long, right?

Cathy:

Yeah.

Tracy:

Because then it's harder to, it's like, it's, it's easier to catch it than it is.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

To, um, to, uh, to fix it, I guess.

Cathy:

Yeah.

Tracy:

Maybe not fix it. I had a, um, I had a, uh, um, Emergency appendectomy, um, years ago, and something that the doctor told me, stay ahead of the pain.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

And it's because once you have the pain, it's really hard to, to reel it back in. And it's the same thing with your emotions, right? Mm-hmm. If you, if you're checking in and you're staying ahead of it, then it's gonna be easier to take care of. Um, and. And one other point I wanted to make about that, and then I'll talk about the, the, uh, the, the toolkit and, and um, how we're gonna remember those things. Um, but Vibe Care is not about dismissing the feelings, right? Vibe Care is about taking care of the contractive energy. Um, and, and getting into the practice of flowing, okay, I'm contract, I can flow into expansive. It's not about pushing the feelings down. It's not about like we can, and I've got a whole kind of process for, um, for checking in with your feelings too. But sometimes we need to get. We need to move into the more expansive, and I'm talking too, I'm not talking about going from anger to joy like that. We're not, that's not it. I'm talking like one emotion, what's the next higher emotion that I can experience? It's not a, it's not a, because that's, that would be toxic positivity. And that's not realistic. It's not healthy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Um, so it's not about, it's not about not tending to the feeling, it's about tending to the energy. So with your toolkit, I, I recommend including what I call, uh, daily Joys into your life. So a daily joy would be, my hula hooping would be going out to, um, to, uh, see my chickens, you know? Um, my sun salutations bring me joy too. I just, I'm sometimes I'm just smiling when I'm doing my sun salutations. Um, But also having really like, you know, a, a toolkit, having a list, having a list of, of the things that really work for you. Like we can have a huge list of things, oh, this and that and the other thing, but the things that you're realistically going to pull in when you need them. Mm-hmm. Um, And so I like to keep a physical copy. I keep a digital copy. Some people, you know, you can keep it in your notes. I also like to give a copy to like my husband that to a personal advocate, right? Somebody who knows you.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

And who is going to, who loves you unconditionally, who is not going to stick the thing in your face. You know, you teach them how to, um, how to support you sticking if my husband stuck that thing in my face, like that would create more contractive energy. But maybe, maybe, and it depends on who, who it is, but you know, maybe it's a, you suggest to your personal advocate. So maybe you say,"Hey. Do you wanna go for a walk" or,"Hey, I, you know, like," whatever works for you where you're not feeling attacked or judged, if that makes sense. Does that answer your question?

Cathy:

Absolutely.

Tracy:

Like, how are you gonna

Cathy:

Absolutely.

Tracy:

Okay. Yeah. And it reminds me, um, of what we've what we've talked about doing with our toddler, with our three year old. Mm-hmm. Um, when she's so emotionally dysregulated. And to not let it trigger us. Yes.

Cathy:

But separating that limit of this is hers, this is not my energy. I can stay regulated.

Tracy:

Right.

Cathy:

And what are the things that we can do? Is it doing the senses, you know, like naming the senses? Is it counting to five? Is it blowing imaginary bubbles? Is it, you know, all the things to help her regulate her nervous system and get back to a place of calm or a place of regulation, I guess.

Tracy:

Yeah, that's exactly it

Cathy Overdub:

Getting on with life

Tracy:

because when we're able to take care of our own vibe, then we can help our kids. Like just what you're saying.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

When you are, when you're, when your child is amped up and then you get amped up, like you're not helping your child, you know? We know that, right?

Cathy:

No,

Tracy:

but when we have,

Cathy:

it doesn't work.

Tracy:

Yeah, it doesn't work. So like the Vibe Care toolkit is a, um, is um, a toolkit full of tools. Some of they, them can be practices like I, I kind of distinguish tools and practices. Like a practice is something, a meditation is an amazing practice, right? It, it's really great for people with ADHD. People with ADHD don't think that they can do it. But they can. Um, but it wouldn't be a great tool. But there are other tools like a sun Salutation could be a tool or you know, breathwork can be a tool, whatever. Does that make sense? Like a practice is

Cathy:

absolutely

Tracy:

something that you're doing regularly. And a tool is something when practiced more regularly, it's easier to pull in.

Cathy:

Sure. And it's maybe not quite as, I don't wanna say as long, but maybe like, it's just not a. Yeah. No, it totally makes sense. It's a,

Tracy:

yeah. And

Cathy:

is something that you likely want to do regularly to enhance or to improve. Um, a tool is something to kind of, in a sense, acutely bring you into a different state.

Tracy:

Mm-hmm. And use in a moment. Right.

Cathy:

Yeah.

Tracy:

You know, something that you can use quickly. Five, 10 minutes.

Cathy:

Yeah. Yes. Doesn't take as long. Beautiful.

Tracy:

Right, exactly.

Cathy:

I think we've kind of touched on this, but what does all of this have to do with being vision driven or where does that vision driven component come in?

Tracy:

So the vision is one of those tools in the toolkit. A vision is in, in living a vision driven life. Is the most life-giving way of living than I have ever discovered in all of my seeking, right? So I'm not just this passive I've been seeking for decades, right? I'm not not seeking as much. I, I, I like to think at this point I'm more, more like a, more of a light worker than a seeker. I'm still seeking. But does that make sense? Like I've, I've done a lot of seeking in my life and when I discovered how to live from a vision, which a vision is really, it's basically, it's a moving toward what you want rather than pushing away from what you don't. It seems like such a, just a so, um, slight of a shift, and it is. But it's brilliant for the A D H D Mind. And here's why. Because when you're moving toward what you want, your vision, right? You're deciding, you're deciding, um, what is it that you really want? W how do you wanna feel? You know, what do you want, how do you wanna feel in relationships? How do you wanna feel in your work? I. That kind of thing. It goes deeper. I'm not gonna get completely into it right now, but it's interesting. Right? And people with a D H D minds, unless it's interesting, important or urgent, we have a tough time staying focused on it. So that's why living a vision driven life is brilliant. For D H D and I ju when I discovered it, I was like, oh my gosh. Like this is it. This is, I mean, it doesn't cure everything, right? But it is definitely a tool that you can, you know, in, in, um, your, your vision. Like you can turn it into a visual tool, like a, a vision board, which I'm looking at right now. So a visual tool that's right there. It's your vision and you're, you can focus on it. Oh yeah, this is, this is me. Like putting yourself into that, um, into the images or into the vision. Does that make sense? Are you looking at yours too?

Cathy:

I'm looking at mine too. Yeah, yeah,

Tracy:

yeah, yeah. I mean that, absolutely. That's, that's living a vision driven life. This is me, you know, this is me in this vision board. Oh my gosh, this is totally interesting. So yeah, I'm gonna keep my, I'm gonna keep, keep moving forward because it's interesting.

Cathy:

I love it. It needs to be interesting and important.

Tracy:

It helps, yeah. Uh, deadlines. Um, it really helped too.

Cathy:

It's just kind of making that mindset shift. That's what we do as coaches, right? Is look towards the future instead of looking at the past and focusing on,"I don't want this, but I do want this, and I'm gonna move towards that." We're not gonna, we're not gonna dwell on that. That's in the past. Right? We're gonna acknowledge that it played a role in our lives and we can move forward. And so this is what I want. And I think,

Tracy:

yeah, that's exactly it.

Cathy:

Sometimes it's hard for people to visualize that.

Tracy:

Mm-hmm.

Cathy:

And sometimes it's hard for people to actually. know, especially if they're coming from a place of deep hurt, it's hard to be able to visualize that things can be different.

Tracy:

Yeah. And you know,

Cathy:

do you find that the people that you, you that are drawn to you have done a little bit of the work in the past, or I don't know, how do you get over that hump?

Tracy:

Some have, but what we start with is how do you wanna feel? How do you wanna feel? Once we can Okay. What, you know, like the Vibe Care. The Vibe Care toolkit. Okay. How do you wanna feel? What are the things that I can do to, so that I feel calm and confident, for instance, okay, I wanna feel calm and conf confident. And then once you're able to kind of feel into that, and then, and then sometimes even experiencing yourself, like experiencing a part of your vision. Oh my gosh, I felt calm and confident, right? Mm-hmm. That realization that I had this vision of myself. And I felt calm and confident when I was doing this talk or whatever. And then you look back, you're like, oh my gosh, I, I ex, I, I actually practiced that first and then I experienced it. So it doesn't have to be this overarching huge thing. Right. It doesn't have to be"all, my relationships are perfect." And I mean, we can get there. But we start with how you feel. It's, it's something, and especially I didn't mention this either, Cathy, that um, that when you have a d h d, we, we tend to feel our way through life. Right. So we, and I almost, I don't know this for a fact, but it feels like to me that we get up in our heads so much, or we feel so much, let's turn that around. We feel so much in our bodies. We're like, we're feeling all of, you know, we're feeling all of the, the, the natural rhythms of the moon and planetary.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

And, um, And, uh, as well as all from all of our senses that we tend to go up into our, into our heads. So we're, we feel, we feel, we feel, and then we go up into our heads and then we get into a mess. Bringing ourselves back down into the body is where we can take care of it, right?

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

Because it feels uncomfortable to feel those feelings, but when we have the tools and the practices, the skills. We can practice, we can kind of play with it. We can play with how we feel, oh, this feels, this, this doesn't feel, this feels a little more contractive, this feels a little more expansive. And it's gonna change. Like, you know, we change all the time. Just like we change daily or even hourly, probably on the, the, uh, the yoga mat, right? Every

Cathy:

mm-hmm.

Tracy:

Every time I sit get on the yoga mat, I'm different, right?

Cathy:

Yep. Yep.

Tracy:

So we just kind of, okay. What's gonna feel good today?

Cathy:

Yeah. Start with how we want to feel and then you can even envision, okay, when's a time in your life where you have felt like that?

Tracy:

Mm-hmm.

Cathy:

If you haven't felt like that, well then that's when we work with imagination. That's when we work, we begin to develop those skills, or like you said, find those moments where, ah, they do experience it

Tracy:

right

Cathy:

and then move from there.

Tracy:

Yeah. And then we can

Cathy:

grow.

Tracy:

And I've been doing this for years. I've been guiding, guiding, uh, moms through, uh, visioning. And sometimes it's really hard at the beginning, but then, I mean, I've seen just visions grow huge. I actually have a, um, a client and colleague who is getting ready to open up a, uh, sensory gym, um, here in Raleigh. And, um, this has been, we've been working on this, um, her vision for this thing. She knew it was gonna be something, it wasn't a gym back in 2016, but now it is. It's in process. I, it's supposed to open this year. Awesome. Right. But in the beginning it was like, you know, how do you wanna feel? Well, I wanna feel like I'm making a difference. Okay. How does that feel? Does that make sense? So it kind of grows.

Cathy:

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay, we're gonna start to wrap this up. Two questions for you. Tell us of all of what we have talked about, how does that create, how does having this vision driven life and being a vision driven mom with A D H D, how does that cultivate greater health, harmony and happiness in your life?

Tracy:

So when you living a vision-driven life, um, at the base of it, it's about self-awareness, right? The more we know about ourselves, the more we know ourselves, the more we can make choices that are right for us. And when we're making those choices that are right for us, of course we're gonna, we're gonna experience more health, harmony, and happiness. Right. It's, it's kind of a, it's a g more of it. Not always. And here's the thing, right? Like vi living a vision driven life is not like, this is not, it's not the cure for anything, right? Right. But is definitely a support. Does that make sense? The more absolutely, the more you know what you know yourself, the more you're able to make the decisions that are right for you.

Cathy:

Yep. And like you said, it doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't happen all the time that you have health, harmony, and happiness in your life all the time. No, it certainly doesn't, especially being a mom, especially. When you've got all this stuff going on. Um, right. I mean, especially being a human's, something that're seeking human. Right. Being a human. For sure. For sure. Yeah.

Tracy:

Being, being a human,

Cathy:

it's, it's something that we can seek. It's the vision that we can, we can seek to move towards, so,

Tracy:

right. That's it. We're always

Cathy:

beautiful

Tracy:

moving toward it. We're moving.

Cathy:

Yeah.

Tracy:

Toward health. We're moving toward harmony. We are moving toward happiness all the time. Right? Yeah. Not, we're not experiencing it all the time, but we can always be moving that way.

Cathy:

Right. It's like that shift from contraction to expansion. That's what I had thought of earlier that I wanted to say is that it's moving towards expansion. It's not that we're going immediately to it and it's gonna be this extreme opposite. It's the, okay, I wanna move towards the next level. Up towards, yeah. How can I shift where I want to be?

Tracy:

What little shifts? It's little shifts.

Cathy:

Mm-hmm.

Tracy:

It's little shifts because you know, if you. You try to do those giant shifts, you're gonna knock out your nervous system anyways. So we wanna just still wanna do little,

Cathy:

And finally, uh, what's one thing that you're doing in life right now to invite more intention into your life?

Tracy:

So I talk a lot about in the work that I do, um, about intentional movement and yoga is one of those things. Now, I'm not perfect, Cathy. I used to be, uh, I'm not gonna say better. I used to it. Getting on my mat used to be easier for me. Um, but when I. I do it regularly, and which is what I, what I, um, encourage moms with a D H D to talk about is regularly, maybe not necessarily saying daily, but regularly. Right? So that's kind of flexible, flexible consistency. But those sun salutations that I've been talking about, I love them. I love the way they feel in my body and I. When I, um, and it's intentional, right? It's intentional. Every, every move, every breath, every, every shift. You know, sometimes I do cross lateral moves too, because the cross lateral helps with the brain function with organizing the brain. Um, but I have to say the sun salutations are the way that I bring more intention into my life.

Cathy:

I love it. I love it. I'll tell you what they do feel good and it can be a quick, ah, snap out 10. It's one of those Exactly. And it's one of those things that when I know I'm getting. Like, my kids are getting to me, if I start doing sun salutations, they're like, okay, we need to stop doing whatever we're doing and move outta this.

Tracy:

Oh, that's fun.

Cathy:

Like she's, she's getting worked up. We're gonna just move away from that and stop doing it. And we'll stop now, mom. Okay, thanks. Like what a, because I'm just trying to calm myself down. Gotta do some movement. I sun salutations and cartwheels. I start doing those, they're like, her wheels her going on. Yeah. So

Tracy:

that's brilliant. And what a beautiful, I mean, and you're showing your kids too, this is what mommy does when she's, you know, she's getting amped up. She does sun, salutations and cartwheels.

Cathy:

Absolutely. Now I'm not perfect at it. I can tell you that, but

Tracy:

Right, right.

Cathy:

When I can go there with my response, it's, oh. That's the trigger for my kids to realize like, oh gosh, yep, we, we maybe need to. Rethink what we are doing here or

Tracy:

I love that. That's a tool for your Vibe Care toolkit.

Cathy:

Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So, okay, Tracy, thank you so much for being here today and um, it's just been a pleasure and I'm excited and looking forward to, uh, being on your podcast coming up in the future as well. I'm going to invite you to start thinking about what you would have in your own vibe care toolkit, and what that might look like. I know Tracy's probably got some ideas and resources for you out there on her website, which I will drop a link to in the show notes. Tracy's also got an ADHD supports guide for you that she wants to make available, so I'll put a link to that. That vibe care toolkit is just definitely something that I think any one of us, even if you don't have ADHD, Would benefit from having, just because there's always those moments in life. For instance, like I was talking about at the beginning of the show, Um, the rhythm of summer gets feeling like that. And so if we had this toolkit already, where we have this list and we know. What we can go to what some of those go-to tools are that we can use to come back into our bodies to come back to ourselves. It's giving yourself one less thing to have to think about. And it's almost like it's creating a system for you that you can just go to look at and be able to care for yourself and nurture yourself in that way. So it's a beautiful thing. You've been listening to health, harmony and happiness with Cathy I'm, Cathy Struecker, helping you find and use the rhythms in all you do. Cheers to cultivating your own version of health harmony and happiness in your life