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Organizing an ADHD Brain

This Podcast is about what it"s like to have ADHD and different techniques people can apply to their life to find their own version of what organized means. Megs is a professional organizer coach with ADHD and shares how organizing your brain, while understanding how it works, provides the key to living your best life.

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30:29

Choosing Hope Instead of Avoidance with ADHD

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2026/02/11

In this episode, Megs explores organizing through the lens of ADHD, nervous system regulation, and the human need for comfort during difficult times. She shares a personal story about losing her childhood blankie to illustrate how comfort objects and familiar routines often help us feel safe — especially when life feels unpredictable or overwhelming. The episode also acknowledges the emotional weight of what’s happening in the world and how collective stress can quietly intensify avoidance, d...

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47:41

Learning to Let Life Be Messy (Without Giving Up on...

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2026/02/04

Motherhood. Neurodivergence. Work-from-home life. Burnout. And that uncomfortable in-between season where nothing is falling apart… but nothing feels settled either. This episode is a deep exhale for anyone living in the messy middle. Megs sits down with Candice Janae — therapist, coach, writer, and fellow human navigating real life — to talk about what happens when life shifts, routines stop working, and you’re trying to stay aligned without burning yourself out. Together, they unpack ...

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36:31

How Do You React to Your Clutter?

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2026/01/21

The Power of Noticing: Transforming Your Reactions to Clutter and Life In this episode, Megs—ADHD coach and professional organizer—dives into the practice of noticing as the true starting point for meaningful change. Before decluttering systems, routines, or productivity hacks can stick, we have to become aware of how we react. Megs explores the most common nervous-system responses to clutter and overwhelm—fight, flight, freeze, and appease—and explains how noticing these patterns without jud...

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60:58

Money Without Shame: A Starting Point for ADHD Brains

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2026/01/14

In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, Megs is joined by financial therapist Lindsay for an honest conversation about money, debt, and personal growth for ADHD brains. If you’ve ever felt shame around finances, struggled with consistency, or believed past money decisions defined your worth, this episode is for you. Megs and Lindsay explore the powerful overlap between financial organization and home organization, starting with a crucial reframe: debt and clutter are morally neutral. Nei...

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32:58

Starting Over Again in The New Year with ADHD

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2026/01/07

Why consistency doesn’t work for ADHD brains — and how learning to come back without shame creates real change. If you’ve ever felt like you can’t stick with anything — routines, organizing, decluttering, goals, or New Year’s resolutions — this episode is for you. Book a Call with Megs > Calendar In this episode, Megs talks honestly about why starting over is not failure, especially for ADHD brains. She breaks down why so many systems don’t stick, how social media narratives can quietly bo...

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30:09

The ADHD Stuck Cycle: What Keeps You Looping and What...

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2025/12/08

You know that moment when you walk into a room and your whole body reacts before your brain even has time to make sense of it? That’s what today’s episode is really about, how clutter hits the nervous system first, and how that shapes everything from motivation to avoidance to why that one corner has been haunting you for months. In this episode, I’m sharing the real, lived experience behind regulation, what it is, why it matters, and how it changes the way ADHD women interact with their home...

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39:12

Curiosity Over Perfection: Navigating ADHD with...

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2025/12/01

In today’s episode, you’ll meet Anishia Denee — a board certified behaviour analyst, ADHD coach, and founder of Authentic Self ADHD Coaching. She helps adults make sense of their patterns, shift from shame into curiosity, and build strategies that actually fit their strengths, values, and capacity. Her blend of behavior analysis, ADHD coaching, and lived experience offers such grounded, compassionate support for real ADHD life. Website link: https://www.authenticselfadhd.com/ Instagram:...

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30:12

Living Two Truths: Gratitude and Change in an ADHD Life

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2025/11/24

In this Thanksgiving-week episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, I’m inviting you into a very real season of my life — the messy middle of moving across the country with my husband, and everything that stirred up inside me. If you’re someone who feels every life transition deep in your nervous system — the overwhelm, the freeze, the “this is too much and also I’m glad I’m doing it” duality — this episode is for you. You’re going to hear stories, yes… but also practical grounding, gentle r...

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26:03

Cringe Goals and Tiny Wins: Reframing Progress with ADHD

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2025/11/17

In this solo episode, Megs opens up about her family’s big move, her husband’s new job, and the messy middle of rebuilding routines, dreams, and self-trust. She shares why traditional goal setting can feel so cringey and overwhelming for ADHD brains—especially during the holiday season—and how to reframe goals into something more realistic and compassionate. Through personal stories about yoga, budgeting, and “one-day projects,” Megs reminds listeners that progress doesn’t have to be perfect ...

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29:36

Before You Add to Cart: How to Avoid Holiday Clutter...

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2025/11/10

In this solo episode, Megs hits record to talk about the messy middle of the holidays—when ADHD brains slide into fight-or-flight, carts fill up fast, and unopened boxes blend into the clutter we’re trying to escape. She reframes gifting season as a chance to make full decisions on what comes into your home: set a compassionate budget, decide who you’re actually buying for, and ask every purchase, “Where will this live—and is it worth the trade-off?” From “hand candy” (fidget toys) to big kit...

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40:51

Letting Go with Love: Grief, Keepsakes, and Tiny-Home...

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2025/11/03

Megs talks with her former client and friend, Carolyn Bedingfield, about decluttering later in life, moving through grief, and building self-trust one choice at a time. Carolyn shares how she emptied a decades-old storage unit, honored her late husband without keeping everything, and transformed a small apartment into a bright sanctuary filled with plants, art, and intentional memories like glowing uranium glass. They unpack common barriers such as all-or-nothing thinking, sentimental guilt, ...

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28:52

Make a Full Decision: The ADHD Cure for Clutter and...

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2025/10/27

In this solo episode, Megs dives into one of the most common habits that keeps ADHDers stuck in clutter and chaos: delayed decisions. From piles of unopened mail to half-finished laundry and unmade choices about what stays or goes, every postponed decision adds up. Megs breaks down her simple, three-step framework for making a full decision—one item at a time—so you can finally create momentum in your home and life. She shares real stories (including a hilarious paperclip moment and her daugh...

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50:57

It’s Uncomfortable and It’s Worth It: ADHD Regulation...

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2025/10/20

Megs welcomes BFRB and habit coach Laura Hope to talk about what really helps in the messy middle: regulation over restriction. They unpack Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (hair pulling, skin/nail/cheek picking, etc.) as the ADHD brain’s Swiss-army-knife for managing over- or under-stimulation, then reframe “stop the habit” into do this instead (hello, pink-elephant-to-blue-dog). Expect gentle tools you can use today—longer exhales, grounding through the senses, micro-mindfulness, boundary ...

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40:17

ADHD, Perfectionism, and Clutter: 8 Things I Wish My...

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2025/10/13

In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, host Megs Crawford shares eight powerful truths about the ADHD brain. From being mislabeled as “lazy” to struggling with perfectionism, overcommitting, and the exhaustion of masking as “organized” at work, Megs continues exploring the “messy middle” of ADHD and organization by breaking down what she wishes others truly understood about living with ADHD. Whether you’re navigating ADHD yourself or trying to better understand a loved one, this convers...

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49:45

Half-A$$ing Is Better Than No-A$$ing: ADHD and the...

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2025/10/06

Motivation fades, life gets chaotic, but the messy middle doesn’t have to stop your progress. Russ Jones is back for the third time, making him the very first three-peat guest on the podcast—and for good reason. As an ADHD coach, Russ knows what it takes to keep moving forward even when you’re stuck in the messy middle. In this episode, Megs and Russ talk about what it really feels like to make a change, why discomfort is part of the process, and how to keep going when motivation disappears. ...

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30:56

Organizing with ADHD: Finding Your Why and Building...

Organizing an ADHD Brain ·

2025/09/29

In this episode of Organizing an ADHD Brain, Megs Crawford kicks off Season 3 with a deeply personal look at “the messy middle” of change. She shares her family’s recent move from Colorado to the East Coast, emphasizing the challenges of living without familiar systems and the lessons learned from navigating discomfort while building a new life. Megs connects her journey to what it means to organize with ADHD. Knowing your “why,” taking one small step at a time, and giving yourself grace are ...

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Season 3: Navigating the Messy Middle, Finding...

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2025/09/22

Welcome to Season 3 of Organizing an ADHD Brain with professional organizer coach Megs Crawford. This season, Megs dives into the “messy middle” of change by sharing real-life stories, strategies, and encouragement to help you navigate the challenges of living with ADHD by giving yourself grace, and discovering your own version of organized living. Join the Organizing an ADHD Brain COMMUNITY waitlist for the FALL: What is the Community? Looking for ADHD-friendly support with decluttering, o...

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32:24

ADHD-Friendly Recycling & Decluttering Guide

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2025/09/08

Send us a text Support the show by getting the Download for today's episode or the Daily TO-DO list planner on Megs' website here: Organizing an ADHD Brain Shop In this episode of 'Organizing an ADHD Brain,' the host discusses the common theme of letting go and provides guidance on how to declutter household items effectively. Emphasizing the importance of small, manageable actions to bring stability when life feels overwhelming, the episode offers practical tips on disposing of various house...

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37:38

Why You Can’t Do It All: ADHD, Time Blindness, and...

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2025/09/01

Send us a text Megs discusses the importance of letting go, prioritizing tasks, and understanding the concept of time blindness. Using relatable analogies like an overloaded internet browser and a cluttered garden, she provides actionable advice to help you declutter both your mind and physical space. Megs emphasizes that by saying no to less important tasks, you can make room for the things that truly matter. She also introduces practical tools like a dopamine menu and offers information abo...

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26:33

Buying Bins Won’t Solve ADHD Clutter: Here’s What Will

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2025/08/25

Send us a text Buying Bins Won’t Solve ADHD Clutter: Here’s What Will If you have lots of stuffed animals, Megs always recommends this stuffed animal bean bag ---> Bean Bag Storage <--- Organizing an ADHD Brain Podcast is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. In this episode, Megs delves into the pitfalls of impulsively buying organizing containers without a clear plan, particularly for those with ADHD. She sha...

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