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    Alternative Health

    ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

    Want to fall in love with your ADHD brain and make it work for you?

    Learn more about my patented program, Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy:
    programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    I have NEVER met an ADHD woman who wasn’t truly brilliant at something!

    This podcast, with nearly 7 million downloads, is for smart, high-ability ADD/ADHD (diagnosed or suspecting) women who see their symptoms as more positive than negative.

    If you want to fall in love with your ADHD brain and discover where your brilliance lies, this podcast is for you!

    ADHD for Smart Ass Women is globally ranked in the top one-tenth of one percent of all podcasts in the world on any subject. It’s streamed in more than 160 countries and is downloaded by more than 150,000 listeners every month.

    My book of the same name, published by HarperCollins/William Morrow, was recently honored by Amazon Editors as a Top 20 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024.

    I’m Tracy Otsuka, your host.

    I’m a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong learner, and a certified ADHD coach. I’m on a mission to change the conversation around ADHD because I believe it’s time to focus on the strengths that come with our unique brains.

    When I was diagnosed eight months after my son, my entire life finally made sense, yet all I read and heard about ADHD focused on what I should struggle with. What I discovered, though, was that my ADHD was responsible for some of my greatest strengths.

    Another thing we constantly hear is all the success stories about ADHD men, but no one talks about the women. This podcast is here to change that.

    ADHD women are my people, and I’m here to acknowledge, support, and cheer them on.

    My experience as an adult living with ADHD, along with my expertise, is regularly sought out by top-tier media, including Bloomberg, Forbes, CBS Mornings, ABC News Live, Inc., Prevention Magazine, Verywell Mind, ADDitude magazine, and The Goal Digger Podcast, etc.

    adhdforsmartwomen.com

    The content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment and does not constitute medical or professional advice.

    Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of anything you have seen or heard from Tracy Otsuka, her guests or this podcast.

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    Copyright: © 2025 ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

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    EP. 381: Diagnosing Everyone but Herself with Psychologist Dr. Shawn Horn Apr 22, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    The hardest part of ADHD is not the symptoms themselves, but the shame story built around them?


    Dr. Shawn Horn is a licensed clinical psychologist and the author of Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD. Known as The Shame-Busting Psychologist, she helps adults understand the painful stories they have carried about being “too much,” “not enough,” or “bad at relationships.”


    Growing up, Shawn was constantly corrected for talking too much, interrupting, and not paying attention. She was placed in special education, misunderstood at school, and spent years believing those experiences meant something was wrong with her. It was not until much later, after earning her doctorate and looking back at her history, that ADHD finally made sense.


    In this episode, we talk about how shame gets attached to ADHD early, how those experiences shape identity, and why being misunderstood can turn into a lifelong story. We also get into rejection sensitivity, nervous system dysregulation, and why healing starts with changing the story you tell yourself.


    If you have spent years feeling like you were too much or not enough, this episode offers a different lens. You may not need a new personality. You may need a new story.


    Resources:
    Website: https://www.drshawnhorn.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drshawnhorn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drshawnhorn
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drshawnhorn
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-shawn-horn-2934347

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 380: Smart, Capable… and Still Struggling with Friendship? Let’s Talk (with Caroline Maguire) Apr 15, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    What if the hardest part of friendship isn't meeting people, but knowing when a connection is real?

    For a lot of ADHD adults, friendship still feels confusing, painful, or just out of reach. Not because they don't care, but because the actual steps were never clear. How do you move past an acquaintance? How do you know if someone genuinely likes you? How do you stop rushing in and ending up hurt?

    Caroline Maguire has spent 21 years answering exactly those questions. She's a coach, educator, and author of Why Will No One Play With Me and the newly released Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults, the first book by a neurodivergent person, for neurodivergent people, on friendship. Diagnosed with ADHD at 12 but told it wouldn't matter because she was a girl, she grew up carrying what so many ADHD women carry: the weight of feeling socially behind without ever knowing why.

    What changed everything was breaking friendship down into something learnable. Patterns. Stages. Signs. Instead of treating connection like something that should just happen, she teaches how to actually build it. From understanding the impulsive friendship cycle, to recognizing that trust is a track record, not a feeling, to knowing the difference between a participationship and a real friend.

    If you've ever felt like you missed the memo on friendship, this episode will show you that nothing is wrong with you. You may have just been moving faster than the relationship was ready for.


    Resources:
    Website: https://carolinemaguireauthor.com
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorcarolinem
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@authorcarolinem
    Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorcarolinem
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/authorcarolinem

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP 379: ADHD, Medication, and What Actually Works with Maggie Alexander, MS, PMHNP Apr 08, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup
    _____

    Are you on the right medication but with the wrong dose?

    Maggie Alexander is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has spent over a decade treating ADHD in teens and adults. Since 2013, she has worked with hundreds of patients using a holistic but grounded approach that includes medication, micronutrients, and targeted strategies.

    When she first entered the field, she did not even believe in ADHD. That changed after a patient came to her suicidal, despite looking like he had everything together, and then improved within days on the right medication. That experience pushed her to question what she thought she knew and learn how ADHD treatment actually works.

    In this episode, we talk about why stimulant medication fails for so many people, how to find the right dose, what side effects are actually telling you, and how labs, genetics, and hormones can shape treatment.

    If medication has not worked for you, this conversation may change the way you think about it.


    Resources:

    • Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/maggie-alexander-beaverton-or/141306
    • Website: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Shine-ADHD/Maggie-Alexander/9798887971841
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-alexander-0912b1a0

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 378: Tech is Stealing Your Attention. This Gives It Back with Dr. Nodira Khoussainova Apr 01, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup
    _____

    What happens when someone who helped build attention-grabbing tech decides to help people get their focus back?


    Dr. Nodira Khoussainova is the CEO and co-founder of Focused Space, a body doubling platform for creatives, business owners, artists, and freelancers, many of whom are neurodivergent. Before Focused Space, she was an early co-founder at Streamlit and led the experimentation team at Twitter.


    She built her career in high-performance tech, but focus was still a struggle. It was only after building Focused Space and working closely with neurodivergent women that she began to see those challenges differently.


    That shift changed how she understood the problem. It was not laziness or lack of ambition. It was attention, task initiation, and the environments people are expected to work in. After years spent helping build systems designed to keep people scrolling, she began building the opposite.


    In this episode, we talk about how tech platforms are built to capture attention, why body doubling works, what makes Focused Space different, and why joy is part of what helps people move.


    Resources:

    • Website: https://www.focused.space/ (use smartass for code)
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/focused_space
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nodira-khoussainova-74540267
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/focused.space.inc


    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 377: Decluttering and the ADHD Brain Mar 25, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    Clutter is not just about stuff. It is about how your brain processes what is in front of you. In this episode, I walk through the connection between clutter, overwhelm, and how ADHD brains track what matters.

    For a lot of us, clutter builds up not because we do not care, but because when something is out of sight, our brain stops tracking it. So we leave things out. Papers on the counter, sticky notes everywhere, piles that slowly grow. Over time, that visual noise turns into stress, decision fatigue, and avoidance.

    The shift is realizing clutter is not just physical. It is emotional too. Every pile can carry delayed decisions, unfinished tasks, and stories we start to believe about ourselves. In this episode, I talk about why clutter builds up for ADHD brains, how it reinforces overwhelm, how tapping can help regulate the emotional response, and simple ways to get started without freezing. If clutter has been weighing on you, start smaller than you think. One surface. Five minutes. That is enough to shift your energy and begin building trust with yourself again.

    Remember: the goal isn't a Pinterest-worthy desk. It's one shift forward that makes your brain feel like it can breathe again.


    Resources:

    • Download a quick start tapping guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bgo4UztHoYd2E3OFsZn3dvrvemTxpaQQ/view?usp=sharing
    • Website: tracyotsuka.com
    • Instagram: https://instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tracyotsuka4796
    • Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 376: Rethinking How We Learn (Because It’s Not Working) with Deena Kara Shaffer Mar 18, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    What if the problem was never that you were bad at learning, but that no one ever taught you how to learn in a way that fits your brain?

    Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer is the founder of Awakened Learning, bestselling author of Feel Good Learning and Raising Well Learners, and a learning strategist who helps students, families, educators, and leaders build systems that work in real life.

    Her work began with bright students who were struggling, not because they lacked ability, but because they lacked the right support. Over time, she realized that study skills alone were too narrow. What people really need are learning strategies that take attention, memory, time, well-being, and emotional capacity into account.

    In this episode, Tracy and Deena talk about why sleep matters for learning, how chunking tasks can reduce overwhelm, why learning styles are a myth, and how tools like NotebookLM, Magic To Do, and ChatGPT’s study mode can support ADHD brains.

    If learning has ever felt harder than it should, this conversation is a reminder that struggling does not mean you are not smart. It may simply mean you have not been taught in a way that fits your brain.


    Resources:

    Website: https://www.awakenedlearning.ca/deena
    LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/deenakarashaffer
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedlearning
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@awakenedlearning

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 375: You Get to Decide Who You Are Mar 11, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    Most of us never actually choose our values. We absorb them from parents, culture, and community, and then wonder why our lives feel like a scratchy sweater we can't take off. That works for a while until something starts to feel off. Nothing is technically wrong, but you have the sense that the life you're living may not actually fit you.
    Procrastination lives in the same neighborhood. It's not about the task. It's about the feeling the task creates, boredom, confusion, fear, or perfectionism, which is fear in a tailored blazer.
    The shift comes when you realize you get to choose.
    You can drop values that feel like an uncomfortable sweater and replace them with ones that actually feel right.
    In this episode, let’s talk about how to identify what you actually value, why motivation follows action and never the other way around, how to shrink the start so small your brain can't resist, and how to hack dopamine so it works for you instead of against you.
    If you've been waiting to feel ready, motivated, or confident before you start, this episode will flip that. You don't become the person first. Every small action teaches your brain who you are becoming.

    Resources:

    • Website: tracyotsuka.com
    • Instagram: https://instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tracyotsuka4796
    • Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 374: You Don’t Need One System. You Need 100 with Dani Donovan Mar 04, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

    _____

    What if the problem was never you… but the tools you were handed?

    Dani Donovan is an award-winning ADHD creator, bestselling author, designer, and founder of the Anti-Boring Project. Her book The Anti-Planner: How to Get Shit Done When You Don't Feel Like It has sold over 100,000 copies.

    Dani was diagnosed with ADHD as a freshman in college after years of being told she was too smart to have it. She did well in school, pulled all-nighters, burned herself out, and quietly assumed the everyday stuff she couldn't manage, laundry, hygiene, keeping up with life, were character flaws. They weren't. They were executive dysfunction.

    Once she finally understood her brain, she started translating that into art. Her ADHD comics took off fast, her first hit 100 million views and was shared by Mindy Kaling. That reach turned into something bigger: The Anti-Planner, a 100+ strategy toolkit organized around how you're feeling when you're stuck, not around dates.

    In this episode, Dani talks about why traditional planners fail ADHD brains, how she mapped procrastination by emotion, what tools like "how to half-ass it" look like in practice, and what she learned self-publishing 40,000 pre-orders while running a business with no business background.

    If you've ever felt like you were the problem because you couldn't stick with a system, this episode will shift that. You don't need one perfect tool. You need the right tool for the resistance you're facing.


    Resources:

    • The Anti Planner: https://www.anti-planner.com
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danidonovan
    • Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danidonovan
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danidonovanart
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dani_Donovan
    • X: https://x.com/danidonovan

    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 373: Stories We Tell Ourselves (And About Each Other) Feb 25, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

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    Your ADHD brain is one of the best storytellers in the room. The problem is it doesn't always know when it's making things up.

    I'm recording this two days before movers arrive, from a house I no longer own, in a t-shirt, with dilated pupils. Classic.

    I sold Bullfrog Farms, my six-and-a-half-acre country home, and decided to do the most opposite thing possible: move into a high-rise in San Francisco. Three HOA rejections later, all because of two small dogs named Teddy and Moe, I went from "this is inconvenient" to "we're basically going to be homeless" in under a week.

    That spiral brought me back to something I keep teaching but had to relearn myself. In this episode I talk about the ADHD brain's compulsive need to fill uncertainty with narrative, the difference between reacting to a story and reacting to data, why public criticism hits differently than private criticism when your nervous system has no agency, and how a misidentified baby egret became the most honest lesson of the month.

    If your brain has ever taken one rejection, one unanswered text, one hard week, and turned it into a verdict about your entire life, this one is for you.


    Resources:

    • Website: tracyotsuka.com
    • Instagram: https://instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tracyotsuka4796
    • FREE 3-days to Fall in Love With Your ADHD Brain training on Jan 6th: https://tracyotsuka.com/ilovemybrain
    • Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com


    Send a Message: Your Name | Email | Message

    Explore more from me:
    🐝 AOK Hive: https://tracyotsuka.com/hive
    🧘 SHIFT: https://tracyotsuka.com/shift
    📚 Free resources: https://tracyotsuka.com/learn
    📖 Get the book, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book
    🧠 Join Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy: https://tracyotsuka.com/aok
    🌐 Visit my website: https://tracyotsuka.com/

    ADHD isn’t a productivity problem. It’s an identity problem.

    That’s why most strategies don’t stick. They were not designed for how your brain actually works. If you’re ready to stop fighting your brain and start building a life that fits, start here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up

    Connect with me:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyotsuka
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heytracyotsuka
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyotsuka/

    Are You Ready to Discover Your Brilliance? Order Now: https://tracyotsuka.com/adhd-book

    EP. 372: Motherhood, Hormones, Trauma and Addiction with Dr. Anupriya Gogne Feb 18, 2026
    Show notes

    Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Here’s what actually does. FREE training here: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

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    What if the season that feels the most destabilizing is the moment your brain is asking to be understood differently?

    Dr. Anupriya Gogne is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist specializing in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry at Brown University Health. She recently authored Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Adult Women.

    When Dr. Gogne became an attending, her caseload doubled overnight. She stayed late finishing notes while colleagues went home. Around the same time, she impulsively adopted a baby husky. Six years into her career, testing confirmed ADHD and NVLD, a visual-spatial learning difference that explained why she didn't drive until age 30 and why every parking lot looked identical.

    Now she treats pregnant and postpartum women with ADHD, addiction, and trauma. In this episode, Tracy and Dr. Gogne discuss ADHD and NVLD in adult women, how visual spatial differences show up in daily life, the overlap between trauma and addiction, the role of stimulants in recovery when carefully managed, and why pregnancy and postpartum can intensify symptoms through hormonal shifts and sleep deprivation.

    If you are in a season where your systems stopped working, this conversation offers context. Sometimes it feels out of control because it is out of control. And that means you need support, not shame.

    Resources:

    • Website: https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/anupriya-gogne-md
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Adult Women: Special Considerations in the Perinatal Period: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-86588-6

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