ADHD with Confidence | Overcome Anxiety & Self-Doubt, Life & ADHD Coach, ADHD in Women
Aug 4, 2026 · 10 min · 11 segments
Host Kelsey Spronk, fellow ADHD mom and entrepreneur, shares five brief, practical tips to feel less overwhelmed: quieting the inner critic and shame, grounding your worth in God, finding rest in…
Kelsey SpronkHost
Number one, often something that exhausts us that uses a lot of our energy is actually internal.
When we fail or feel like we've failed or been rejected, what is it that we say about ourselves? So I want us to bring down the inner critic that we have inside of us.
It takes practice to tell a different story, to ask yourself, is there another way of looking at this? Some examples could be something like comparison.
Not comparing yourself to other people and their journeys, not knowing how much support they have, how much sleep they've had, what kind of life they've come from, what they're working with, or even genuinely how they're doing.
Comparison doesn't ever really work because we never truly know the whole story, but also because it steals the joy of our own journey.
Another aspect of comparison is not comparing to who you used to be at a different time in life, maybe before you had kids, maybe when you were in a more stable relationship, maybe when you were in a different job, maybe when your health was different or better.
We can't live in this place of comparison to a former version of ourselves without robbing ourselves of the joy and the opportunity that we have in front of us right now.
Once again, this is going to be exhausting when we're constantly comparing ourselves to ourselves as who we think we should be, who we thought we should be, or to somebody else.
It's so helpful and can save you so much energy when you are able to say, this is my own journey.
I'm not going to be perfect that's okay it's about learning it's about progress it's about growth not about perfection or some specific end goal the other part of this first piece here with that inner critic is quieting the voice of shame and part of this is something that I teach in this podcast is And through coaching as well.
Number one, often something that exhausts us that uses a lot of our energy is actually internal.
When we fail or feel like we've failed or been rejected, what is it that we say about ourselves? So I want us to bring down the inner critic that we have inside of us.
It takes practice to tell a different story, to ask yourself, is there another way of looking at this? Some examples could be something like comparison.
Not comparing yourself to other people and their journeys, not knowing how much support they have, how much sleep they've had, what kind of life they've come from, what they're working with, or even genuinely how they're doing.
Comparison doesn't ever really work because we never truly know the whole story, but also because it steals the joy of our own journey.
Another aspect of comparison is not comparing to who you used to be at a different time in life, maybe before you had kids, maybe when you were in a more stable relationship, maybe when you were in a different job, maybe when your health was different or better.
We can't live in this place of comparison to a former version of ourselves without robbing ourselves of the joy and the opportunity that we have in front of us right now.
Once again, this is going to be exhausting when we're constantly comparing ourselves to ourselves as who we think we should be, who we thought we should be, or to somebody else.
It's so helpful and can save you so much energy when you are able to say, this is my own journey.
I'm not going to be perfect that's okay it's about learning it's about progress it's about growth not about perfection or some specific end goal the other part of this first piece here with that inner critic is quieting the voice of shame and part of this is something that I teach in this podcast is And through coaching as well.
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