SUMMARY:
Therapist, trauma specialist, unapologetic ND-mom, and now coach, Sera Gray joins ADHD Peri Punks to talk ADHD, perimenopause, feminist rage, creative healing, and what happens when women finally get seen—by themselves and each other.
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
What happens when you mix late-diagnosed ADHD, perimenopausal chaos, feminist rage, and four neurodivergent kids under one gloriously weird roof?
You get Sera Gray—Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, founder of Wild Lotus Therapy & Coaching, mother, artist, and unapologetic forest witch who’s helping women unmask, heal, and burn down the shame that kept them small.
In this raw, soulful, and laugh-out-loud episode, hosts Sarah Glasco and Chrissy Ingram sit down with Sera to talk about what it really means to wake up to your own neurodivergence in midlife—right when your hormones start rioting and the medical patriarchy tells you it’s “just stress.”
Sera has built her life and practice around helping women, girls, and parents untangle misdiagnosis, masking, trauma, and hormonal mayhem. Her approach blends clinical science, feminism, art, and archetype work, reminding us that healing isn’t linear—it’s creative, chaotic, and deeply human.
Join Sarah and Chrissy for a fierce, funny, and unfiltered convo. Sera shares her late ADHD diagnosis story, the hormone-fueled chaos of midlife, what the system keeps getting wrong about ND women and girls, and why creative, feminist care is the revolution we need.
From parenting in a house full of neurodivergence, to smashing shame with art and archetypes, this episode is required listening for anyone feeling unseen, too much, or just over the “good girl” act.
Together they dive into:
💥 The ADHD discovery story — how Sera finally recognized her own brain at 40 and why so many women don’t get diagnosed until midlife.
🔥 Hormones & rage — why perimenopause can amplify ADHD symptoms and unearth decades of repressed fury (and why that’s not a bad thing).
💬 Systemic failures — how women are gaslit by the healthcare and mental-health systems and what it takes to keep advocating anyway.
🧠 Parenting neurodivergent kids — what it’s like to raise four wildly different brains while trying to unmask your own.
🎨 Art & dreamwork as therapy — how creativity, imagination, and “witch energy” can become a form of nervous-system regulation.
💪 The future of neurodivergent care — why we need universal ADHD screening, trauma-informed systems, and a whole lot more compassion.
Sera doesn’t sugarcoat the messy middle—she’s lived through postpartum hell, domestic violence, burnout, and now perimenopause. Her story is a reminder that rage can be sacred, rest can be rebellion, and that there’s magic in the moments we think we’ve fallen apart.
This is more than a podcast episode; it’s a rallying cry for neurodivergent women who are tired of apologizing for existing.
🎧 Listen now to Wild Lotus Rising on ADHD Peri Punks—where hormones, humor, and holy rage meet the science of self-acceptance.
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