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Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast
Welcome to the Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast. This is the show for you if you’re an adult with ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms and you need help. Do you feel like your symptoms are holding you back from reaching your full potential? Are you frustrated, unmotivated and overwhelmed?
Many people aren’t aware that ADHD coaching is even an option. Perhaps you are newly diagnosed, or not diagnosed, but you check all the boxes and you’re finding it difficult to cope in certain areas of your life. Host, Mande John and ADHD coach, is here to help. Each week, you’ll get solutions and practical advice to navigate ADHD symptoms and live a productive life.
On the podcast, you’ll hear from coaches and clients who share real-world applications, tools, and resources that you can apply to your own life. We can be creatives, entrepreneurs, or multi-passionate people, and not know how to organize our ideas, or even how to take action on them. With Mande John as your guide in the area of ADHD coaching, she’ll show you how to transform your life when you apply the tools to help you be more focused, less overwhelmed, and be a person that commits and stays the course. Are you ready for a life-changing experience? Let’s go!
Learn to Thrive with ADHD Podcast
Ep 114: Emotional Maturity Is a Skill - Especially for ADHD Brains
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Are you struggling with emotional reactions that surprise even you? Do certain people or situations consistently set you off, and you wish they didn't? In this solo episode, Coach Mande dives deep into one of the most overlooked aspects of ADHD success: emotional maturity - and why it's a set of learnable skills that can transform your life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What emotional maturity actually is (and why it's NOT about being calm all the time or never reacting)
- The surprising research on ADHD and emotional development delays—and why you're not behind, you're just on a different timeline
- How to recognize the difference between "emotional childhood" (reacting from old patterns) and "emotional adulthood" (responding with intention)
- Why your parenting struggles might actually be about YOUR emotional maturity, not your child's behavior
- The truth about growing up with emotional chaos—and how to break the cycle without blame
- The E.A.S.Y. Framework for building emotional maturity with ADHD:
- Evaluate: Understanding yourself without judgment
- Awareness: Noticing thoughts, feelings, and patterns so you can respond instead of react
- Systems & Skills: Supporting yourself with practical tools and emotional regulation strategies
- You Show Up: Taking imperfect action and building maturity through consistency, not perfection
- How building emotional maturity reduces avoidance, rejection sensitivity, spiraling, and people-pleasing—while increasing self-trust and intentional living
Mande shares personal moments where she's shown great emotional maturity and moments where she definitely hasn't—and why that's completely normal for ADHD brains. She also unpacks groundbreaking research from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience showing that children with ADHD consistently perform emotionally like peers 1-3 years younger, and what that means for adults navigating relationships, parenting, and personal growth.
Key Takeaway: You're not broken. You're not behind. You're learning skills most people were never taught. Emotional maturity grows when you make small choices that support your future self—and you can step into emotional adulthood at any age.
Resources Mentioned:
- Dr. Russell Barkley's research on ADHD emotional delays
- Study from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (500+ children with ADHD)
- Episode 110: Full E.A.S.Y. Framework deep dive
- Weekly ADHD Newsletter: learntothrivewithadhd.com/weekly
Ready to build emotional maturity and make ADHD easier? Book a free coaching consultation with Coach Mande at learntothrivewithadhd.com/services
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