ADHD Roundtable Ep 6 | Healing Without Meds: ADHD, Nervous Systems & Spiritual Growth

January 24, 20232 min read

Episode Summary

This episode dives deep into the real, raw, and radiant sides of ADHD with an international crew of brilliant women: Sorcha, Gaia, Amaya, and Jess. The conversation opens with a swirl of hyperfocus topics—from functional breathwork to human design to the search for meaning beyond social metrics. From there, things get beautifully vulnerable. The group explores late-in-life ADHD awareness, trauma-informed perspectives, and the power of reimagining ADHD not as a disorder, but as a lens that reveals both challenge and superpower. Whether you’re deep in the diagnosis journey or still asking “do I even have ADHD?”—this one is full of permission, perspective shifts, and poetic rants about why rest, healing, and rebellion matter.

Highlights & Takeaways

  • Functional Breathwork Is the New High: Sorcha’s current hyperfocus explores the subtleties of nasal breathing and nervous system regulation—less flashy than holotropic journeys, but deeply life-changing.

  • Purpose vs. Dharma: Amaya unpacks the difference between spiritual fulfillment and societal expectations, reminding us that living our truth doesn’t require 10k followers.

  • Healing Is Possible: Gaia drops truth bombs about moving beyond the “meme stage” of ADHD into genuine healing—and how knowing her diagnosis finally made every tool start to work.

  • Diagnosis ≠ Worthiness: Whether formally diagnosed or not, several panelists validate the experience of “just knowing” and choosing whether or not to enter the system.

  • RSD Is Real: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria hits hard—especially for entrepreneurs—and Sorcha offers a powerful reframe for tending to that part of ourselves with compassion.

  • From Shame to Strategy: ADHD used to feel like chaos; now it feels like power. These women share how they built trust with themselves and their brains over time (no quick fixes here).

  • ADHD Joys: Tangents that lead to brilliance, the ability to relate to everyone, and that magical spark that turns a single word into an entire business idea.

  • You Don’t Have to Struggle Forever: Healing is possible. Transformation is real. And none of it has to be done alone.

👥 Meet the Panelists

Sorcha Wolnik
https://www.instagram.com/sorchawolnik/

Gaia Broda – ADHD Wellness Co
https://www.instagram.com/adhdwellnessco/

Amaya Shiva
https://www.instagram.com/amayashiva/

Jess DuBose – ADHD Coach
https://www.jessdubose.com/
https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithjess/

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Jess DuBose is an ADHD coach and writer who uses words the same way she approaches coaching—with honesty, humor, and a deep respect for the messy human experience. She’s a published author whose work explores what it means to live, rest, create, and grow in a world that often demands too much. Through both writing and coaching, Jess helps ADHDers build lives and businesses that honor their energy instead of shaming it—and she writes to remind people they’re not alone in the chaos.

Jess DuBose

Jess DuBose is an ADHD coach and writer who uses words the same way she approaches coaching—with honesty, humor, and a deep respect for the messy human experience. She’s a published author whose work explores what it means to live, rest, create, and grow in a world that often demands too much. Through both writing and coaching, Jess helps ADHDers build lives and businesses that honor their energy instead of shaming it—and she writes to remind people they’re not alone in the chaos.

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