Restless by Design
More and more people in recovery are discovering they’re ADHD. Restless by Design explores the compelling reasons behind this connection, and how our natural ability as High Perceivers can help in every aspect of life. Looking at ADHD and recovery through lived experience reveals insights that challenge outdated assumptions — and it’s fun and fascinating.
Episodes
What’s the difference between an anxiety attack and a panic attack, and why don’t those labels help? In this episode, we explore how they differ and what actually helps your system settle.
Stop self-surveilling and start inhabiting your life. This episode explores the dysregulation of constant self-optimization and how to reclaim your focus.
Panic feeds power. Regulation preserves agency. A reflection on non-violent leadership, nervous system steadiness, and staying human when pressure is high.
Why sleep tips never worked for me and what finally did
When we’re having stress-related symptoms, a little self-leadership can be surprisingly helpful.
A trauma-informed look at narcissistic abuse recovery, nervous system regulation, and how to tell recognition from danger, from someone who’s been there. It gets easier.
If you’re ADHD, ADHD-adjacent, or wired for rebellion, this episode is for you. Some of us learned to treat our amazing natural traits like danger. Let’s undo that.
We think appeasement is “being nice,” but it’s actually the quiet habit of shrinking so everyone else can stay comfortable. This episode looks at where it starts, why it sticks, and what recovery feels like when you finally stop smoothing the world.
Do We Even Need Both? What if your creativity already knows how to speak for itself?
ADHD traits are worth billions to the self-help industry, but we're the ones who can pivot when the map disappears. Unmask and enjoy the show!
A love letter to the right-brain/left-brain two-step and the art of feeling it all without losing it.
Not a self-help episode — a survival spell. Recovery, emotion, and a little apocalypse humor.
The body and the body politic rarely heal in logical steps. Healing arrives like medicine — unexpected, embodied, and real.
People call ADHD a gift. I’m not so sure. Here’s how to live with high perception without being consumed by it.
The Peter Pan Promise of Patriarchy lets men stay boys while women pay the price. Here’s how “boys will be boys” becomes “men will be monsters” — and why knowing matters.
We’ve been told ADHD is all about dopamine. Not so fast. The real missing link? What I call The Tiger Effect. Once you hear it, you’ll never see ADHD the same way again.
A job didn’t fix it. A role didn’t fit. Every new career felt like another box.
And you’ve started to wonder… What if what they call “symptoms” are actually deep signals?
You’re not broken. You’re restless by design.
In this episode I explore how embracing the full emotional range — from joy to grief, rage to delight — isn’t just a recovery truth. It’s a revolutionary skill.
Turns Out, Feeling Everything Was the Assignment.
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What if the real resistance begins by reclaiming the story? In this episode, Ellen Archer explores how fascism hijacks meaning — and how mythology, metaphor, and recovery can restore it. Through personal stories, archetypal insight, and a mythic lens on ADHD, emotion, and activism, this is rebellion for the weary and wise.
Recovery isn't just about quitting something. These days, people are in recovery from burnout, abuse, sexism, invisibility, systemic harm, and so much more. Recovery is a rite of passage. An initiation most of us never received. And it might just be the key to changing everything.
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