The Most Mundane Diagnosis Ever
And Favorite Recent Content
OK, so my headline is a bit clickbait-y. ADHD is not a mundane diagnosis. But my experience of receiving it was. I was pretty sure I had it; it runs in my family and has an incredibly high heritability rate. I’d spent the last couple of years wondering, and with all of the change going on in our family right now, I decided it was finally time to try to get some help in terms of specific strategies and tools that can help women with ADHD.
It was not news to anyone who knows me well, just as it wasn’t news to me. But now, I can start learning more about ADHD, how it can present in women, and how I can organize my life to work for my brain. (Plus, because of that high heritability I mentioned, it’s quite possible one or more of my daughters will end up with an ADHD diagnosis, and this way, I’ll be better equipped to help them as well!)
I’m still in the early stages of learning. If you or someone you know has ADHD and has any resources or tools to recommend, I’d love to hear them! Please drop a comment.
What Else I’ve Been Up To:
When you read this, I’ll be about 34 weeks pregnant! I feel like that deserves a bullet point. Please pray for me, the baby, and our family as we get closer the and closer to meeting our new little girl!
I reviewed Brya Hanan’s new book, Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Healing and Wholeness, for CatholicMom.com.
- and I joined Lisa Canning on her live YouTube show/podcast, The Possibility Mom, to talk about ambition, discernment, and our upcoming book. Watch it here, or listen here.
On our own Catholic Women Lead podcast, we launched season 3, which will go for the rest of the year and feature the amazing women we interviewed for our book. Check out episodes 1 and 2, on ambition (with CWIB community manager Caroline Kenagy) and discernment (with the one and only Stacey Sumereau), on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Content I’ve Liked Lately:
This Christianity Today essay by Sophia Lee had a fantastic title—and followed through on its promise: “I’m Trading My Career for Motherhood. Neither Will Fulfill Me.”
This Institute for Family Studies article by
was an enlightening look at Americans’ preference for flexible, informal child care.Fellow Carmelite fans will appreciate this Aleteia article (read for free with a login) announcing that the Carmelite martyrs of the French Revolution might soon be canonized.
I liked this Catholic Answers rebuttal, written by convert and mom Anna Sutton to the question (apparently often asked of husbands of at-home moms), “What does your wife do all day?”
Along similar lines is this Church Life Journal essay by
about how, despite decades of secular thinking, motherhood is not a blocker of creativity.Finally, can we bring back the term “home economics”? I’ve been thinking about this question for a while and appreciated this essay by Emily Malloy at Theology of Home on the importance of the home economy.
Books I’ve Enjoyed:
I’m not actually sure I can say I enjoyed reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. However, I think I think it’s a good book and will probably be able to tell you for sure after I talk about it with my Well-Read Mom friends next month. (WRM takes a break for the summer, and our group decided to read The Goldfinch and meet up for brunch and conversation.)
I did enjoy reading When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, by
. I’m reviewing it for Catholic Women in Business, so stay tuned! Overall, I agreed with most of what she had to say and think it’s an important read for our culture right now.
Thank you for reading! And I am so glad you enjoyed it, and really so interested to hear your thoughts on it, as care is so under-discussed, and there are so many ways into this subject.