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ADHD Girls is a social impact company with a mission to empower girls and women with ADHD to thrive and elevate neurodiversity understanding via an intersectional lens Powered by personal lived experiences of ADHD, we work to destigmatise ADHD and support ADHDers via:

Post-diagnosis Support:: Personal and professional development workshops for ADHDers;

Advocacy: Producing thought-provoking digital awareness campaigns and events;

ADHD training: Running ADHD awareness session within education and work settings to improve cultural understanding of ADHD and providing best practice approach to support ADHDers. We work on the basis of the strengths-based approach, recognising that neurodiversity is a cross between the medical model, intersectionality, and the social model of disability.

19/11/2025

AuDHD women - to know us is to know that we are complex.

And every behaviour needs to be filtered through context, because our nervous system shifts along with the changes in our environment (whether within or outside).

Yesterday inside our AuDHD training, we dove deep into:
👉 genetics and epigenetics
👉 biochemistry
👉 hormones
👉 traumatic vs protective experiences

We talked a lot about hormones, and how that shapes our personalities and us as glorious complex humans.

And one question won’t leave me…
“Was there a greater evolutionary purpose to make such a highly sensitive, complex human?”

We spent most of our lives finding ways to fix ourselves, thinking we are broken (and this becomes more prominent when we go through hormonal shifts)…

But what if we were made this sensitive to filter out the bs in the world and help people face the truths they avoid?

We are the canaries in the coal mine.
Join our February cohort and become an AuDHD women advanced practitioner.

17/11/2025

🌏 The world is finally catching up — and it validates everything I’ve built.

From 1 December 2025, Australia will make it unacceptable for psychologists to assess, diagnose, or treat neurodivergent people using outdated, deficit-based, or neuro-normative frameworks.
(AHPRA | Psychology Board of Australia – 2025 update)

This is historic.
And for many of us, it’s validation of our quiet suffering for decades.

🔥I ran the AuDHD Women Survey one month before Gina Rippon released Lost Girls of Autism… and a full year before this Australian law change.

Because lived experience moves faster than academia and policy.
When the institutions finally acknowledge our lived realities, we’ve already burned, crashed and (hopefully) survived.

🚨 I nearly didn’t make it out of my health crash last year.

The collapse of my hormones, trauma, masking, burnout, and misdiagnosis was the moment I realised:
You cannot understand a neurodivergent woman through an outdated and wholly-biased lens.

That’s why I wrote Tip of the ADHD Iceberg — to show the world what sat beneath the surface.

🌺 And it’s why I built the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner Programme.

🙌 Trauma-informed.
🙌 Hormone-informed.
🙌 Neuroscience-informed.
🙌 Lived experience–driven.

Exactly the kind of integrated, ethical approach Australia has now made mandatory.

This isn’t “alternative.”
This is the new standard.

And neurodivergent women deserve nothing less.

13/11/2025

ADHD medication isn’t necessarily failing those of us who are AuDHD.

For women, your hormones, and your nervous system, are not being accounted for.
👉 Most neurodivergent women I work with are on stimulant medication.
👉 Many are also on HRT/ contraception
👉 Some are on SSRIs.

And almost none have been told how these interact with:
👀 The drop in estrogen that increases dopamine sensitivity
👀 The fall in progesterone, reducing GABA and emotional regulation
👀 The rise in histamine, triggering agitation and sensory overload
👀 The resurfacing of trauma during hormonal vulnerability

💥 Add a full stimulant dose into that mix—and the system crashes.
Not just because of the meds.
But because of the timing and attunement to a nervous system in flux.
Women are labelled treatment-resistant or unstable — when their care has never been cyclical to begin with.

This is why we can’t treat women as “little men”.
Why medication needs to be optimised to a woman’s cyclical rhythms and nervous system capacity.

In our current cohort, we are teaching the connection between:
☝ AuDHD - hormones - trauma systems - and co-occurring conditions.
The questions I get approached with becomes increasingly complex, which hint at the number of practitioners who are “shooting in the dark” when it comes to prescribing. 😩

Join our February cohort of the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner programme: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

12/11/2025

Our lived experience research is showing the quiet crisis in AuDHD women care:
The disconnected support between psychiatry, gynaecology, and trauma services ❤️‍🩹 🫠

Many women reported that their hormonal shifts (estrogen, progesterone, cortisol) amplified emotional volatility, sensory overwhelm, and burnout — but clinicians often missed this interplay.

Without trauma-informed understanding, symptoms were misread as “mood disorder” or “non-compliance.”

This lack of joined-up care led to:
💥 Repeated misdiagnoses (depression, BPD, bipolar).
💥 Medication contradictions — e.g., stimulants making anxiety worse during luteal phase, or SSRIs prescribed instead of hormone support.
💥 Chronic burnout because emotional and physiological regulation were never stabilized.
💥 Women feeling they had to self-educate and “become their own care coordinator.”

“I’m managing my own case file across three specialists who don’t even use the same language.”

This is the type of knowledge we learn in the AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner programme. And now, we created a structure so I can support women to applying this knowledge into their lives.

Join us for the next cohort in February 2026 and become an empowered AuDHD women advanced practitioner in 6 weeks (link in bio).

11/11/2025

2050: You wake up to a world that no longer has labels. Everything is filtered through the lens of shifting energetic states - the body, mind, and how we relate. Women’s health gets equal look in 👀

2025: You don’t know what day it is. Brain fog. Am I ADHD, autistic? It’s all shifting everyday. Can I predict what I’m like in X, Y, Z contexts? Why are men on dating apps saying they want to date a woman who’s a little autistic, or a little ADHD?

Here at ADHD Girls, it’s business as usual.
Today we go into the second session of our practitioner programme to understand AuDHD behaviours below the surface. Where labels aren’t really that reliable, especially when our states shift - and we go into how our physical states and lives in society impact how we show up.

09/11/2025

❤️‍🔥 What an incredible group of women coming together to create change for themselves, their families, and the world - as we kicked off the AuDHD Women Intersectional Scientific Advanced Practitioner Programme last week 🌍

In the past few days it’s been quite a roller coaster:
🌟 Launched the second cohort of AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner Programme
🌟 Attended the Gala, cheering on my friend whose book was nominated in the Coaching & Mentoring category
🌟 Celebrated Ludmila Praslova, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, Âû, whose brilliant book The Canary Code won an award 🏆
🌟 Delivered an opening keynote at the Easterseals Midwest Virtual Autism Summit 2025 —
“Neurodiversity & Integration: From Boardroom to Classroom to Community”

The mission is big - to create unity in a world that feels increasingly divided, one practitioner, community, and organisation at a time.

I’m always open to collaborations that build sustainable impact (while staying true to energy boundaries).
If you’re working on something aligned, let’s connect. 🌍✨

07/11/2025

The ADHD Taskforce’s latest report confirms what I’ve been working towards for years —
a shift to an integrated, whole-person model that bridges education, health, and community 💥

What stood out most:
👉 Moving away from the “single specialist clinic → diagnosis → treatment” model (which is overwhelmed),
towards embedding support earlier and across everyday contexts — in schools, workplaces, and communities.

These insights affirm the work I’ve been building:
🌈 ADHD Girls — education and advocacy through science, humanity, and soul
🌈 AuDHD Women Advanced Practitioner Programme — training evidence-informed, hormone- and trauma-aware, culturally intelligent practitioners
🌈 ADHD Girls Care Network — a multidisciplinary bridge between medicine, therapy, coaching, and lived experience
🌈 Community circles — rehumanising healing through voice, movement, and relational repair

ADHD is not just a mental health issue — it’s contextual, relational, and social.
This is our invitation to co-create collaborative, holistic care that validates diversity and data.

03/11/2025

Stimulants and AuDHD: This is not a weight loss advert 💥

2022 = three months into taking stimulants,
I had lost so much weight (with a dangerously low BMI).
I missed meals, hardly ate, and kept myself busy with work and life.

2025 = I am at a much healthier weight,
I am still taking a low-ish dose of stimulants daily (alongside HRT, supplements, and a mindful approach to life)

In between, I battled the type of stress that you won’t wish on your worst enemy:
🫠 two relationship breakdowns
🫠 stress on my body from prolonged sympathetic activation
🫠 trauma therapy
🫠 learning how to live on my own, pay my bills, and look after two ND kids solo
🫠 lowering the dosage of stimulants by myself to reduce my blood pressure (with my psychiatrist’s approval, too)
🫠 being invalidated at an autism assessment 3X
🫠 ADHD Girls IG got hacked
🫠 flu that took a month to recover from & ANTIBIOTICS

rock bottom kept getting lower. 😅

How did I rise from the bottom? 🐦‍🔥
Two things:
❤️ my children
❤️ my purpose

From then on, I dove so deep into AuDHD like my life depended on it.
Because it did.
I examined the science behind what makes us different.
And created the first comprehensive research study on the lived experiences of 400 AuDHD women.

Tomorrow, we run the second cohort of the AuDHD in Women Intersectional Scientific Practitioner Programme.

Since then, I’ve been able to stand tall and say. My work is built on INTEGRITY (and maybe a little blood, sweat, and tears too.)

Gaining emotional mastery doesn’t come from avoiding your pain,
It comes from facing it head-on.
And I know I’m still pretty early in this “Train the helpers” journey,
If you’ve been on the sidelines and you’re a practitioner who’s wondering if you’re doing the right thing with your AuDHD clients,

Be one of our early adopters. You only need to read my last article to see the transformation our graduates have gone through.

02/11/2025

Puberty vs. Perimenopause: Why Neuroscience Explains the Nervous System Storms Women Face

I was going through puberty as my mother was going through perimenopause. Alot of my trauma began at that age.
To this day, she remains unaware of this. While I do ALL this work, and I’ve forgiven her, love her, and help other women heal their mother wound.

Today, I’m going through perimenopause and my 11 year old daughter is going through puberty.
For the first time, I am able to hold the space for her (having first sought help to restore emotional safety for myself).

See, I had no choice. I wanted to break the cycle.
So when a mother of a 16-year-old girl contacted me, I knew I had to step in. Read this article to see how I help her analyse the science, story, and data of what we know of a nervous system in flux in BOTH puberty AND perimenopause.

This article will change how you see your own mother, yourself, and your daughter (if you have one).

Enrol in my AuDHD in Women: DSM-5 via a Scientific and Intersectional Lens programme before the door closes tomorrow.

31/10/2025

As a coach, are you unknowingly re-traumatising your AuDHD client without knowing it?

This is often when:
👉 coaching crosses into the realm of therapy - where coaches are asking questions that unknowingly trigger their clients,
👉 they completely lose control over the session.

It shouldn’t be this way. 😫

Ask me how I know 😬
Emotional safety is so important in any relationships, but especially more when you are working with an AuDHD women. 💝

We’ve added the AuDHD Women Life Coaching Manual to our programme (which begins next Tuesday!), which supports an AuDHD women around these core areas that we identified from our lived experience research:

•⁠ ⁠Identity & unmasking
•⁠ ⁠Burnout recovery
•⁠ ⁠Emotional regulation
•⁠ ⁠Relational repair
•⁠ ⁠Workplace advocacy
•⁠ ⁠Hormonal navigation

Sign up today to become an AuDHD Women Intersectional Scientific Practitioner: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

29/10/2025

Very excited to introduce the first AuDHD Women Life Coaching Manual, developed from our collective lived experience research on AuDHD Women.

The manual supports AuDHD women who comes to coaching for these reasons (many of which are hidden):

* Identity & unmasking
* Burnout recovery
* Emotional regulation
* Relational repair
* Workplace advocacy
* Hormonal navigation

The AuDHD Women Life Coaching Manual contains the following:

* Part I: Understanding the AuDHD Woman
* Part II: The Coaching Journey
* Part III: Moving Forward: Translating Core Needs into Strategies
* Part IV: Core Practice Tools
* Part V: Safe Space Protocols
* Part VI: Templates & Reflection Tools
* Session Prompts Hub
* Resources

It gives practitioners the strategies to support AuDHD women holistically.

Read the full article in our link in bio and enrol today, begin training with us next week!
https://samanthahiew.com/the-audhd-women-life-coaching-manual/

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