FIT-OLOGY holistic ADHD coaching - Jessica Covington

10/22/2026

What if the thing you’ve been trying to fix about yourself is actually a thing to understand and allow?

When you’ve spent years feeling different, getting things wrong, or trying to meet expectations that seem to come naturally to everyone else, it’s easy to start believing *you* are the problem.

When you’ve also spent years in survival mode, masking, or adapting to keep the peace, it's also pretty easy to forget who you really are beneath all those layers.

In this episode of the podcast, I talked with Jasmine Rivera about her experience of being diagnosed with ADHD and autism later in life—and the deeper work of rebuilding her identity. We explored what happens when you finally have language for how your brain works, how shame can keep you stuck in old patterns, and what it takes to begin honoring your needs instead of treating them as flaws.

Jasmine also shared a few practical ways she supports her nervous system, because understanding yourself isn't just an intellectual exercise. It's learning to recognize what you need, respond with less judgment, and build a life that works with you rather than against you.

You don't have to become someone new to move forward; you can start by getting to know the person you've been all along, and that feels like *everything.*

🎧 Listen now: https://adhd-alchemy-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/late-diagnosed-adhd-and-autism-identity-faith-and-nervous-system-support/

If you've ever wondered who you are beneath years of masking, shame, or survival mode, this episode is for you. 💙

10/15/2026

I'm stoked to show you how to befriend (yes, really!) your procrastination! Join us!

10/14/2026

Crystal Chittick discovered ADHD the same year she became a mother.

Two identity-shifting seasons at once -- world-changing to say the least.

In our conversation, she shared what she wishes more people understood: ADHD is not an excuse, a character flaw, or a lack of effort. It is a different way of processing, focusing, remembering, and moving through the world.

Her approach is not “push harder.”
It is: know your brain, build supportive systems, and stop abandoning yourself to meet everyone else’s expectations.

One of my favorite things she said:

“Who we are becoming already exists within us.”

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10/07/2026

Our founder Famous Ashley Grant did a thing! She was a guest on the FIT-OLOGY holistic ADHD coaching - Jessica Covington podcast! Check it out now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ln2dRAnpBO4qAnDxAYIWV

ADHD Alchemy Podcast · Episode

10/07/2026

Christine Polite started a Slack channel at work. Within two days, a dozen people had joined. She called it a “dopamine” channel—a space to talk about neurodivergent experiences, share ideas, ask questions, and occasionally post a very relatable meme.

What struck her was not just how quickly people joined -- it was the feeling that they had been waiting for an *invitation*. That really got me thinking about community, belonging, and team energy.

Too often, we think about belonging like it requires some massive initiative. Christine’s story started with just a small action: “Here is a space. You are welcome in it.”

A colleague early in their career shared a dopamine menu—a tool Christine had never encountered before. Suddenly, work was also a place where she could learn something useful about supporting her own brain -- not from a formal training, just from someone else who understood. Christine calls her own path a “misfit journey," but not apologetically! She is finding people and environments where those differences can be recognized, understood, and celebrated.

Being open about ADHD at work is not always easy. Stigma makes “just be yourself” much more complicated than it sounds. So the question is more than just, “Why don’t people speak up?” It's also: "What kind of welcome have we created? What happens when someone shares a struggle? Do people have to appear effortless to be considered 'professional'?"

For Christine, a quirky Slack channel became one place to have those conversations, and maybe something like that can happen for you too. Are the people around you waiting to feel confident? Or are they just waiting for your invitation?

Listen to Christine’s episode of ADHD Alchemy for a conversation about community, authenticity, and rethinking what it means to belong.

https://adhd-alchemy-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/from-misfit-to-meaning-adhd-identity-and-finding-your-people/



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09/30/2026

Can I tell you something that still stings a little?

My daughter had full psychoeducational evaluations. Complete, professional, thorough....and they still missed her ADHD. So did I -- the person who knows her best, with decades of lived experience and study in ADHD.

I answered every screening question honestly. The problem was the questions.

"Does your child do this more than normal?" My answer was no — because she acted exactly like me. In our house, that was just NORMAL.

If that landed in your chest a little, this week's episode is for you. I talked with Cynthia Hammer and Kristan Shimpi of Find the ADHD Girls — two women on a mission to get every girl screened for ADHD before age 8, so no one spends decades misunderstanding herself the way so many of us did.

They have a free checklist that works differently than the usual screening questions, and it's the tool I wish I'd had years ago:

✔️ It asks about patterns, not comparisons. Instead of "more than usual," it describes the actual behaviors commonly seen in girls with ADHD. Cynthia says 87% of parents who take it come away realizing ADHD might be what they've been looking at.

✔️ You can take it as yourself at age 7. That's Cynthia's exercise for adults, and it's quietly powerful — you finally see the pattern that was invisible in childhood, because in your family, your normal WAS normal.

✔️ It helps you trade blame for pattern. Evaluators and parents didn't ignore what they saw — they just never had the pattern to see. That's where self-forgiveness actually starts.

The checklist is free and takes about 10 minutes: findtheadhdgirls.org/checklist-form.

Listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts. And if this made you think of a mama who's been quietly worrying about her girl, send it to her. 💙

https://adhd-alchemy-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/why-we-need-to-find-the-adhd-girls-earlierand-what-five-minutes-can-change/

You are worthy. You are loved. And you belong in this world exactly as you are — not despite your differences, but because of them.



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09/23/2026

If your ADHD brain feels overwhelmed, scattered, anxious, or completely unable to begin…

Try moving before you try to think your way out of it. "Motivation" never comes first -- it only follows action.

Ashley Grant shared something I hear often from women with ADHD: on the days she works out, she gets more done.

It's not because she suddenly becomes more disciplined (it's not a discipline issue anyway), not because her to-do list gets shorter (it only ever gets longer!), but because movement changes the state of her brain.

That's true for all of us: movement changes our mental state.

When she is in a workout class, hiking outdoors, or even walking in place at her desk, there is only one job: the next rep, the next step, the next song, the next breath.

For a few minutes, the rest of the noise gets quieter. The Fancy Brain has enough jobs to do that it can settle down the chatter a bit.

And afterward? The thing that felt impossible to start feels just a little more manageable.

Best of all, it doesn't have to be an intense workout to get the brain benefits. You might try:

A five-minute walk around the block
One favorite song and a dance break
Ten squats while your coffee brews
Stretching beside your desk
Walking in place during a podcast or voice note
A little time outside, or just a change of scenery

Movement is NOT a reward you earn after you finish your work, it's the support that helps you start it.

What kind of movement helps you feel more like yourself?

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09/22/2026

This just blew my mind:

People listen to the ADHD Alchemy Podcast from 31 different countries so far! 🤯

09/16/2026

You know that feeling when you've been white-knuckling your way through life, and someone finally says the thing that makes it all click?

That's what happened when Lisa Barwise at The Warrior Goddess Saga joined the podcast.

Lisa is a wellness alchemist, fitness feminist, and author of Unarmored. She discovered her ADHD in midlife — right in the middle of perimenopause, grief, and burnout. A coaching-led process gave her something she'd been searching for her whole life: understanding.

Not a label. Not a fix. Just the quiet relief of going, "Oh. That's what's been happening."

What Lisa named that I think so many of us need to hear: You're not broken. You're burdened.

She calls it "Armor Weight" — the emotional, energetic, and identity burdens we carry that no diet, workout, or productivity hack can touch. The grief we haven't processed. The relationships that hollowed us out. The shame of being told we're "not living up to our potential" so many times that we start to believe it.

And here's the part that really got me: she talked about how perimenopause doesn't just shift your hormones. It reorganizes your brain. Estrogen — which acts as a buffer for stress — starts declining. Dopamine drops. For an ADHD brain already running on a dopamine deficit, it's like losing your shock absorbers on a bumpy road. Everything hits harder.

That's why so many of us feel like we're falling apart in midlife. Not because we're weak. Because the scaffolding we built our coping strategies on is being dismantled from the inside.

But Lisa also shared something hopeful: she talked about the "Guardian phase" — the idea that post-menopause, women's brains literally rewire toward purpose: fighting for what matters.

It's like being in your twenties again — except this time, you actually like yourself. 😉

If you've been carrying weight you can't name, if you've been calling yourself lazy or broken, if you're in the middle of the midlife melt and wondering what's wrong with you — listen to this conversation.

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