“Messy, Brilliant, Tired, and Wired: Welcome to ADHD in Her Shoes”

Some days, it feels like my brain is running five apps at once and all of them are glitching. I’ve lost my phone while talking on it, forgotten what I was saying mid-sentence (more times than I can count), and have stared at emails far longer than I care to admit before writing a single word. And yet, I own and run a successful outpatient psychiatric practice. Welcome to the paradox of being a high-functioning woman with ADHD: messy, brilliant, and figuring it out as I go.

Who I Am (Professional + Personal)

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specializes in ADHD in women, though truth be told, most of what I’ve learned didn’t come from textbooks. It came from listening to women who were dismissed, misdiagnosed, and told they were just anxious, sensitive, or “too much.” It came from finally seeing myself in their stories. I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and that moment didn’t just explain my life, it reconnected me to it.

What This Blog Is About

This blog is where personal stories meet clinical insight and where women with ADHD can finally see themselves reflected in both. I write about the overlap of science and lived experience: what the research says, what the textbooks miss, and what it actually feels like to live in this kind of brain day to day. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, still wondering, or long past the point of masking, this space is for you.

Let Your Mask Down Some

If you’ve ever felt like you’re hustling through life in metaphorical mismatched shoes, one laced with brilliance, the other barely hanging on—you’re my kind of person. This space is for the beautifully disorganized, deeply thoughtful, emotionally overloaded, and wildly capable women who’ve been figuring it out as they go (often with snacks).

Pull up a chair…or kick your shoes off entirely, ohh and you’re allowed to put your feet in the seat ;). I’m really glad you’re here.