Harmonise You

Harmonise You Women's Health Practitioner Specialising in ADHD & Perimenopause

I sat in a room with a group of women with ADHD in perimenopause.Every single one had been told it was stress or anxiet...
08/05/2026

I sat in a room with a group of women with ADHD in perimenopause.

Every single one had been told it was stress or anxiety. Try meditating or have an SSRI...

Not one of them had ever had the hormones and ADHD conversation at the same time. Not once.

Years of appointments, referrals, prescription renewals.

Nobody joined the dots.

They were all exhausted. Not tired. Exhausted. In that bone-deep way that comes from decades of working twice as hard as everyone else just to look like you’re keeping up. And then hitting perimenopause and not being able to do that anymore.

Then one of them said something that stopped us in our traccks...

“I didn’t lose my mind in perimenopause. I just finally ran out of capacity to pretend I was fine.”

Ten seconds of silence. Because every single woman in that room knew exactly what she meant.

Perimenopause doesn’t cause the ADHD. It removes the scaffolding.

Progesterone goes first, taking the GABA calming system with it.

Oestrogen fluctuates, dopamine destabilises.

The coping strategies that took decades to build quietly stop working.

And what’s left is the unmasked, unsupported, hormonally dysregulated ADHD nervous system that was always this tired. Just without the workarounds.

You didn’t suddenly get worse. The conditions changed.

And the conditions have a name, a mechanism and something that can actually be done about them. Which is considerably more useful than simply meditating!

If any of this sounds familiar, Hormones and Headspace was built for exactly this moment. Link in bio. 💛

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this for every woman who was told to just manage better.

07/05/2026

Every time a woman tells me she’s progesterone intolerant, the first thing I ask is: who told you that?

Because in most cases that label was handed to her after one difficult experience. One type. One dose. One delivery route. Introduced into a nervous system that had been running on stress for years.

And then the door was closed….forever.

Yet there can be so many factors that affect this.

Progesterone is not one thing. Bioidentical and synthetic are not the same.

Oral, transdermal and vaginal produce completely different hormonal profiles.

And the state of the nervous system when progesterone is introduced changes everything about how it lands.

Under chronic stress the body can shift how progesterone is metabolised entirely. What should feel calming can feel activating, dysphoric or just completely wrong. Not because of the hormone. Because of the terrain it landed in.

A reaction is information. Not a final verdict.

If you’ve been told you’re progesterone intolerant and it always felt like an incomplete answer, it probably was.

My ebook Progesterone: The Miracle Hormone goes into all of it. Link in bio. 📖

If this resonates, you’re welcome to share below. Did anyone ever explore the why with you?

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this for anyone who’s been told progesterone isn’t for them.

When someone asks why their ADHD is worse before their period and twenty minutes later we’re talking about the GABA path...
06/05/2026

When someone asks why their ADHD is worse before their period and twenty minutes later we’re talking about the GABA pathway, oestrogen, dopamine, the luteal phase, chronic stress and why nobody studied this.

I genuinely cannot help myself.
You ask me one question and I am taking you all the way back to the root of it because that is where the actual answer lives. We love a rabbit hole!

The supplement recommendations and the lifestyle tips mean nothing without the foundation. And the foundation requires context.

Stabilise first, optimise later.

And the context requires explaining that your ADHD and your hormones are not two separate conversations.

They never were.

So, I cannot give you the short version. The short version is what got you here in the first place. Someone gave you a short version. It didn’t help.

If you recognise yourself in this, thedeeper dive into all of this is inside Hormones and Headspace. It’s the course I built because the short version wasn’t working for anyone. Link in bio. 💛

Does your practitioner take you to the root of it or hand you a protocol and send you on your way? Curious to know what your experience has been.

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this for everyone who has ever asked me a simple question.

05/05/2026

Women are being denied progesterone every single day. And most of the time the reasons given don’t hold up to real scrutiny.

Too young. Too old. Family history. Blood clots. Migraines. Brest cancer. Must have oestrogen too. The list of reasons women are told they don’t qualify is endless !

Here’s what’s actually happening.

Most of those contraindications were established based on research on synthetic progestins and conjugated equine oestrogen….NOT on bioidentical progesterone. Not on transdermal or vaginal preparations. One formulation, one dose, one route. And the blanket warning followed every woman on every form of HRT regardless.

Multiple studies show body identical progesterone protects breast health or has a neutral effect.

The Menopause Society’s own 2022 Position Statement is clear. Age alone should not be a reason to stop hormone therapy.

And yet women are still sitting in appointments being told they don’t qualify.

Being handed a closed door with no explanation of what it was based on.

You do not need to qualify for your own hormones. You need a practitioner who has read the research and is applying it to your individual situation.

If you’ve been told you can’t have progesterone and it never felt like the full story, it probably wasn’t.

My ebook Progesterone: The Miracle Hormone goes into all of it. Link in bio. 📖

Have you been told you don’t qualify? What reason were you given?

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this for every woman told she can’t have progesterone without a proper explanation why.

A delayed reply. A change in tone. A look. And suddenly you’re in a spiral that lasts three days!! If you’re a woman wit...
04/05/2026

A delayed reply. A change in tone. A look. And suddenly you’re in a spiral that lasts three days!!

If you’re a woman with ADHD, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about.

That’s not being too sensitive. That’s not something a mindfulness app will fix.

This is RSD. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. And most women with ADHD say it’s the hardest part of having it. I know it is for me. I hate it.

Not the executive dysfunction. Not the time blindness. Not the fact that we’ve lost our keys in our own hand again.

This.

RSD is significantly more prevalent in women with ADHD than in men. And yet it has been studied almost exclusively in male subjects. Which means most women have spent years being told they’re too emotional, too intense, need thicker skin, that not everything is about them.

None of those were the answer. All of them made it worse.
Here’s the bit nobody tells you though. RSD moves.

It intensifies at specific hormonal moments. When progesterone drops, the GABA calming system loses support. Spike higher. Recovery slower. Looping thoughts with more room to run.

Late luteal phase. Perimenopause. Postnatal. All times of significant progesterone decline. If your worst RSD clusters at certain points in your cycle or life stage, that is not a coincidence. That is biology.

This month in the Skool community we are going all in on RSD. Two posts a week, the full picture, plus a free RSD Recovery Guide at the end of May for community members. Free to join. Link in bio. 💛

Had you heard of RSD before? Genuinely asking, because the comments on this one are going to be something thta shows us we are not alone.

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this for everyone who told you that you were too much. And for everyone who believed them.

This is one of the most common reasons women think they are intolerant. Progesterone isn’t just a hormone to protect the...
01/05/2026

This is one of the most common reasons women think they are intolerant.

Progesterone isn’t just a hormone to protect the uterus (thanks medical misogyny). It’s a neurosteroid, which means its effects are deeply tied into the brain and nervous system.

When the nervous system has been under chronic stress for a long time, the way progesterone is metabolised, and the way the brain responds to it, can change completely.

This is also why progesterone can work for a while and then not! The terrain changed, the hormone didn’t.

If you’ve ever started progesterone and felt worse, more anxious, more wired, lower, not yourself and been told that means your intolerant or sensitive, this information is for you.

Because a reaction to progesterone is not a forever verdict. It is information. And most of the time, what it’s telling you is not that the hormone is wrong. It’s that the system it landed in wasn’t ready for it.

This is why I am rarely rushing to push through progesterone in women who’ve had a difficult response. I’m asking different questions first. About the nervous system. About cortisol patterns. About what the body has been carrying before we even introduced the hormone.

Because when those pieces are in place, progesterone often feels completely different.

Same hormone. Different nervous system. Completely different experience.

If this has resonated with your experience, you’re welcome to share below. Have you ever been told you’re progesterone intolerant? Did anyone explore the context with you?

If you’d like to understand the full progesterone picture, my ebook Progesterone: The Miracle Hormone is linked in my bio. 📖

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Save this and share it with someone who has been dismissed after a difficult response to progesterone

By this point, you’ve probably tried ALLL the things.Supplements, diet changes, different approaches. Some might have he...
30/04/2026

By this point, you’ve probably tried ALLL the things.

Supplements, diet changes, different approaches. Some might have helped a bit, some might not have worked at all. But nothing has felt consistent.

That’s because PMDD isn’t random, and it doesn’t respond well to random solutions.

Most women are given things to try without any real structure behind them. So it becomes trial and error. You try something, it sort of helps, then it doesn’t. Or you layer multiple things at once and have no idea what’s actually making a difference.

What actually works is much simpler, but it requires a different approach.

First, you understand your pattern. When symptoms show up, how they build, and how that links to your cycle.

Second, you support progesterone and what’s happening hormonally in that phase. At a pace YOUR body needs.

Third, you regualte blood sugar.

Then, you stabilise your nervous system so your body has more capacity to cope with that shift.

Then you layer support on top of that, in a way that actually matches what your body needs at that time. Deeper work aorund histamine, trauma, gut and liver processing.

That’s the difference. Not doing more, but doing the right things at the right time.

If you want this properly explained, I break this down step by step in my progesterone book and inside Hormones & Headspace, so you’re not left trying to piece it together yourself.

Start there 💛Link in bio.

Much love,
Adele

29/04/2026

Most ADHD advice was designed for a male brain.

Most hormone advice ignores ADHD entirely.

So you’ve been handed two incomplete maps and told to find your own way….fun times!!

The anxiety that ramps up before your period isn’t just anxiety. The focus that disappears in the luteal phase isn’t just your ADHD getting worse. The emotional dysregulation nobody can explain isn’t just stress.

These systems interact. Hormones affect dopamine, GABA and the stress response directly. Which means they affect your ADHD traits directly. And yet most ADHD care never asks where you are in your cycle. And most hormone care never asks about your ADHD.

The gap between those two things is where so many women get lost.

The work I do exists to bridge that gap. Not by adding more protocols or more things to manage, but by understanding how your hormonal landscape and your nervous system are actually talking to each other.

If you’re ready to understand how your hormones and your ADHD interact and finally have a plan that accounts for both, Hormones and Headspace was built for exactly this. Self-paced, no overwhelm, designed for ADHD brains. The link to join is in my bio. 💛

Has your ADHD care ever taken your hormones into account? Honest answers only.

Much love,
Adele

🔖 Worth saving if you’ve ever felt like you were falling through the gap between two systems that should be talking to each other.

Your hormones aren’t working against you. You just haven’t been given the map yet.Inside my self paced course, Hormone...
28/04/2026

Your hormones aren’t working against you. You just haven’t been given the map yet.

Inside my self paced course, Hormones and Headspace, we start with two things that change everything.

First, your cycle as a map. Understanding that you have four distinct inner seasons, each with a different hormonal environment, a different energy and a different capacity.

Once you see this, you stop wondering why you feel so different week to week. You start understanding it.

Then oestrogen. The hormone that makes you sparkly, focused and motivated when she’s rising. And the one that drives brain fog, mood crashes and ADHD trait amplification when she dips or sits too high relative to progesterone.

For ADHD women, oestrogen matters enormously because it directly supports dopamine.

Which means your focus, motivation and emotional regulation are all affected by where she is in your cycle.

This is why your ADHD can feel so unpredictable. It isn’t. It’s patterned. And once you can see the pattern, you can plan around it.

This is just weeks one and two. There is so much more inside.

Video content, somatic audio practices, handouts and a plan your nervous system can actually cope with. The link to join is in my bio. 💛

If any of this has landed, you’re welcome to share below. Did you know oestrogen and dopamine were connected?

Much love,
Adele

I want to tell you about something that happened in my skool community (ADHD & Hormones) this week.We’ve been going deep...
27/04/2026

I want to tell you about something that happened in my skool community (ADHD & Hormones) this week.

We’ve been going deep on PMDD this month. What it actually is, why it’s so different from PMT and what’s really driving it beneath the surface.

The oestrogen to progesterone ratio. Histamine. The gut. Blood sugar. And why ADHD women are so much more vulnerable to all of it.

And the responses have been have been great.
Women sharing that they finally have a name for something they’ve been carrying for years...feeling seen...feeling validated.

Women who have been told it’s just bad PMS & recognising for the first time that what they’ve been experiencing is something entirely different. Women connecting with each other in the comments in ways that go far beyond what any Instagram post can hold.

This is what this community is for.

Not more information to consume and forget. A genuine space to process, connect and understand yourself more fully. With other women who already get it before you say a word. A space to coem back to the informaiton rather than scrolling through.

And tomorrow we are going LIVE.

I’m hosting a Q&A inside the Skool community at 12pm GMT and I want you there. Bring every question you didn’t get to ask this month. About PMDD, about the hormone drivers, about what to do when you recognise yourself in all of this but don’t know where to start. Nothing is off limits.

It is free to join the community and the live is free to attend.

The link is in my bio. 💛

Come and find us. 😉

Much love,
Adele



🔖 Share this with someone who has ever been told their PMDD is just bad PMS.

“Track your cycle” sounds simple, but most women have never been shown how to do it in a way that actually gives them an...
24/04/2026

“Track your cycle” sounds simple, but most women have never been shown how to do it in a way that actually gives them answers.

More tracking doesn’t equal more clarity. Logging symptoms, using apps (if you remember to!), writing down how you feel… it looks helpful, but without context it doesn’t show you anything useful.

PMDD is about timing. When symptoms start, how they build and how that lines up with ovulation and the luteal phase. That’s the piece most people are missing.
So instead of tracking everything, focus on three things.

First, ovulation. You need to know when it’s happening. In my opinion Mira is the most simple way to do this and it gives you a clear anchor point for the rest of your cycle. (see below for 20% off discount code)

https://shop.miracare.com/en-gb/collections/test-your-fertility

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Second, your luteal phase. This is the window after ovulation where PMDD symptoms show up. This is where you want to pay attention.

Third, symptom timing. Not just “I feel anxious,” but when it starts, when it peaks, and when it lifts. That’s what allows you to see the pattern clearly.

When you track like this, things stop feeling random. You start to see the same pattern repeating each month, and that’s where clarity comes from.

If you want this broken down properly, I go into this in detail in my progesterone book and inside Hormones & Headspace, so you’re not trying to figure it out on your own. (link in bio)

If you want to see your daily hormone levels, feel free to use my Mira discount code for 20% off- 2HARMONISEYOU20

Save this and start tracking differently this month.

Much love,
Adele

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