Most people talk about eating well as if it comes down to making better choices.

But for ADHD brains, food is rarely just one choice.

It's noticing hunger before the crash. It's stopping what you're doing. It's remembering what food exists. It's deciding what sounds tolerable. It's switching tasks...

I didn't come to the dopamine-and-food conversation as someone studying it from a distance. I came to it as someone who lived the gap between knowing what would help and not being able to do it when life, stress, overload, or my own brain got in the way.

That made me less interested in surfac...

I don't know what's happening for us in Ontario right now, but I feel like we've had all four seasons in the past five days.

One day, it's spring, windows open, and I feel like a new person.

The next day, it's snowing or sideways raining some weird combination of mushy hail again, and we're back...