ADHD: Late Understanding, Early Shame & Making Peace + guest Carolyn Mallon

Описание: Julie Legg sits down with psychiatric nurse practitioner and mental health advocate Carolyn Mallon, whose journey from high school dropout to doctorate-level clinician is both inspiring and deeply relatable for late-diagnosed ADHDers. Carolyn shares how understanding her neurodivergence in adulthood radically shifted her ability to study, self-advocate, and succeed both academically and emotionally.

The conversation explores the messy, non-linear paths many ADHDers walk, the grief that can accompany diagnosis, and how resilience often looks like simply showing up, trying again, and choosing compassion over shame. This episode is a great reminder that healing and success take many forms, and that it's never too late to start again... with better tools.

00:00 Introducing Carolyn Mallon
02:49 Carolyn’s non-linear path into mental health
05:52 Academic struggles and discovering how to study
08:49 Learning Outside The Lines
09:40 Reframing Success
11:37 Grieving what could’ve been
13:48 Making peace with your earlier self
16:55 What resilience really looks like in daily life
20:33 Comparison, shame and reframing timelines
24:18 Creating a values-aligned mental health practice
28:27 Advice for listeners feeling behind or uncertain

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