ADHD Wild Women

What if the story you were living wasn’t your own?In this powerful opening step, the first of 12, Kat Wood begins the journey of mythic recovery for women with ADHD. Drawing from Jungian psychology, cultural criticism, and personal experience, she explores the unconscious myth so many of us carry: that we must reject our wildness in order to survive.This episode unpacks the stigma surrounding ADHD, especially for women, and the societal narratives that shame difference. It traces how these myths become internalised, how they silence our soul-song, and what it means to begin the process of individuation — the process of reclaiming our wild, lost selves.We journey through shadow work, the witch wound, and the symbolism of The Little Mermaid as a tale of self-abandonment and return.If you've ever felt like you had to contort yourself to be acceptable, then this episode is for you.Support ADHD Wild Women on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/W7W61FXMEMFollow ADHD Wild Women on Substack for essays and more https://adhdwildwomen.substack.com/

After a long hiatus, Kat Wood returns with a relaunch of ADHD Wild Women: a podcast at the intersection of soul, self, and neurodivergence. In this episode, Kat shares her ADHD diagnosis journey at 43, the grief and liberation that followed, and how a master's degree in Jungian psychology helped her begin to reframe ADHD not as a disorder to fix, but as a sacred fire to reclaim.Kat introduces the soul path she’s charting for the next twelve months: a 12-step journey to reclaim the wild self and explore ADHD as a mythic process of individuation. This episode dives into shame, shadow, and masking, explores Jung's transcendent function, and calls for a holistic integration of mind, body, and spirit.If you’ve ever felt misaligned, misunderstood, or burned out by the relentless pressure to “hack” your ADHD to increase your "productivity", this one’s for you. You’re not broken. You’re just wild. And your soul is calling you home.📍 Join the coven:→ Instagram: @adhdwildwomen→ Substack: ADHD Wild Women

After a period of several months of hiatus, ADHD Wild Women is back, with a new year/new journey. This episode delves into the importance of myth and archetype, the stories we tell about ourselves, and how this Jungian (mythic and folkloric focused) approach can be used consciously to heal the collective wound found in the unconscious of a burned out, disillusioned postmodern feminine psyche. Host Kat also looks at the way in which many woman have been drawn to pursue the individualism and competition found in the contemporary dominating male Hero's Journey, before putting forward a case that true freedom and the wild sacred way is more likely to be found in Maureen Murdock's counterpoint: The Heroine's Journey. The episode explores why these dominating myths can be particularly damaging to women with ADHD, and most importantly what we can do about it.

As women with ADHD we are often labelled too much or not enough because of wider societal values surrounding so called "traditional womanhood". Expressing emotion, especially anger, is socially forbidden because we are women. Yet, anger can be a powerful tool for transformation, as this episode explores, through Kat's own journey and personal relationship with anger.

After a six month hiatus host Kat Ellinger is back to explore ADHD as part of a spiritual journey, paganism, the divine feminine, processing trauma and finding your true authentic self, as well as the power of the wild woman archetype. The episode also looks into the benefits of following a Jungian path to radical self-acceptance and much much more.

With the winter solstice representing the darkest day of the calendar, Kat reflects on Kate West's pagan poem Moon on Dark Water, looking into how often during the darkest times we can see the most about our inner selves if we know where to look. She also explores the importance of observing life's natural cycles, as women with ADHD, and using winter as a period for rest and introspection as part of the journey to living a fully neurodiverse authentic life. 

In this episode Kat examines the ways in which social media can be lethal for neurodivergent people, her own relationship with social media, and ways in which we can take control of how it impacts on our mental health. She also looks at the role of quiet in releasing our wild selves. 

In this episode Kat shares her experiences of being diagnosed with ADHD in her early 40s and discusses why it's so important we seek diagnosis as part of our ongoing journey to gain self-acceptance as ADHD women. Part of the episode also looks at some of the challenges involved both pre and post diagnosis, the cycle of grief that can often emerge out of being newly diagnosed, as well as the positive things we stand to gain from truly understanding our neurodiverse selves. 

ADHD Wild Women is a feminist podcast dedicated to celebrating the innate wild spirit inherent in women with ADHD, while also exploring the challenges of being neurodiverse in a neurotypical world, and examining the systemic patriarchal social structures which undermine who we are as women; one that constantly judges us either too much or not enough.  Episode One lays down something of a manifesto for the project, framed around Clarissa Pinkola Estes' groundbreaking book: Women Who Run with the Wolves and the archetype of the wild woman.  This first episode explores the following questions:  Why do women face additional barriers having ADHD compared to their male counterparts?  Why do we need to embrace our wild selves?  Singing over the bones: How do we carve a path to personal acceptance?