Newsletter archive
Letters from Maren
Every newsletter doubles as a blog post. Practical, evidence-based reframes for women diagnosed with ADHD late, plus the research behind them, plus the client stories that ground them.
The week your ADHD gets louder, and the hormone nobody mentioned
Why your ADHD symptoms get worse the week before your period, what the estrogen drop in the luteal phase does to a dopamine-starved brain, why perimenopause makes late-diagnosed women feel like they're falling apart, and the one-month tracking experiment that turns the hard week into a date you can see coming.
You weren't lazy. You were undiagnosed.
What women diagnosed with ADHD after thirty have actually been carrying. The shame, the structural reasons our school systems missed us, and the reframe that changes the next decade.
The Best Free (and Nearly Free) Kindle Books for Women Wondering If They Have ADHD in Their 30s and 40s
A working therapist's roundup of the best free and low-cost Kindle books for late-diagnosed ADHD in women, with honest notes on who each one is and isn't for.
Why ADHD planners fail late-diagnosed women (and what works instead)
Why every ADHD planner you've bought has ended up in a drawer, what time blindness actually does to a Wednesday morning, and the three-piece system that holds even when sequence breaks.
Best Books for Women Diagnosed With ADHD in Their 30s, 40s, or 50s: 8 Honest Picks for the Grief and the Now-What
Eight books for women diagnosed late with ADHD, ranked by what they actually do for the grief stage and the now-what that follows.
The diagnosis grief most therapists don't warn you about
The four-stage emotional arc of late ADHD diagnosis in adult women: relief, grief, anger, integration. What most therapists miss in the handoff, and what to actually do at each stage.