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Back to EpisodesEpisode 368-From Mislabels To Meaning: A Functional Nutritionist ADHD and More with Amy Jones
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You can feel it the moment someone finally says, “Oh, that’s why.” Amy Jones joins us for a candid, funny, and deeply human talk about living most of her life without an ADHD diagnosis, getting labeled with everything but the real answer, and how that one missing piece rewrote her entire story. We sit with the grief of “what could have been,” but we spend even more time on what relief can look like when you stop treating yourself like the problem and start understanding how your brain actually works.
We also go straight into neurodivergent parenting, because the real learning happens in the small moments. We talk about building a home where kids can speak up, practice self-advocacy, and feel safe telling the truth about what’s hard. There’s a powerful segment on noticing empathy, naming it out loud, and how reinforcement can shape growth over time. If you’re raising kids with ADHD or autism, you’ll recognize the invisible weight of accommodations, sibling dynamics, and trying to give your children what you didn’t have.
Amy brings a practical lens as a functional nutritionist and ADHD life coach: nutrient imbalances, meal timing, blood sugar crashes, and why “just do the healthy thing” falls apart when executive function is tapped out. Her best advice is system-first and shame-free. We talk about externalizing decisions, building default grocery lists, planning for the worst day, and even using tools like voice notes to share the mental load of variety and meal ideas at home.
If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more neurodivergent families can find the support they’ve been missing.
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