Harmonise You

Harmonise You Women's Health Practitioner Specialising in ADHD & Perimenopause

If you have ADHD and you are navigating perimenopause, this is the panel I consider essential. Save this and take it wit...
19/06/2026

If you have ADHD and you are navigating perimenopause, this is the panel I consider essential. Save this and take it with you to your next GP appointment.

Most standard blood tests only look at the basics. Thyroid, maybe oestrogen and that is often where it stops. But for an ADHD brain, that is nowhere near enough information to understand what is actually going on.

Ferritin matters because it directly affects dopamine production.

B12, folate and vitamin D all play a role in mood, energy and cognitive function.

Prolactin, SHBG, testosterone, DHEAS, FSH and LH give a fuller picture of where you are hormonally.

Liver function matters too, because your liver plays a significant role in how you metabolise and clear hormones.

And HbA1c and CRP can reveal blood sugar patterns and inflammation that quietly affect everything from focus to emotional regulation.

If youre told all is normal ask for the actual numbers, not just whether they are flagged.

Normal and optimal are not the same thing, so for an ADHD brain, that gap can be enormous.

You deserve a full picture, not a snapshot.

Save this. Share it with a friend who needs it too. đź’›

Much love,
Adele

18/06/2026

Progesterone didn’t just leave quietly, she took your dopamine buffer with her and didn’t even have the decency to say goodbye, and for an ADHD brain that was already running on fumes, that is the difference between a manageable day and a day where you open the fridge four times, forget what you walked in there for, and seriously consider just living in there.

Here’s what is actually going on, because there is always a reason. Progesterone supports GABA, your brain’s calming system, and when she drops in the late luteal phase, that calm doesn’t gently fade, it basically sprints out the door, leaving an already overstretched nervous system with absolutely nothing left in the tank.

That is why your focus vanishes mid task, why you lose entire words mid sentence, and why something that felt completely fine three days ago can suddenly feel like climbing a mountain in flip flops.

And look, you can keep white-knuckling through day 24 every single cycle, googling your symptoms at midnight, and wondering why nobody warned you this was coming, or you can spend six weeks actually learning why this happens and what to do about it, so next time you see it coming before it flattens you completely.

It is not a magic fix, but it is the map I wish someone had handed me years ago, and it has changed how hundreds of women relate to their own cycles.

Stop white-knuckling it. Hormones & Headspace. Link in bio. đź’›

Much love,
Adele

lutealphase hormonehealth

Your ADHD might not just be ADHD and there are seven blood markers almost nobody checks that could be quietly running th...
17/06/2026

Your ADHD might not just be ADHD and there are seven blood markers almost nobody checks that could be quietly running the show while everyone tells you it’s “just stress” or “just getting older”.

Exhausted and foggy with your memory gone? Ask for a full thyroid panel, not just TSH.

Low, flat and weirdly anxious? B12 and vitamin D matter more than people realise, and vitamin D is actually a prehormone, not a vitamin.

Zero drive when you used to have so much? Testosterone, FAI and DHEAS are quietly running your confidence and adrenal reserve.

Bloods “fine” but you feel anything but? FSH, LH and SHBG can tell a very different story.

Focus and mood crashed for no reason? Prolactin is almost never tested, and it can tank your dopamine.

None of this is complicated to check. It just rarely gets asked for, and that is not your fault.

Come and talk about all of this with us inside the Harmonise You ADHD community on Skool, this is exactly what we’re getting into this week. 💛 Link in bio.

Much love,
Adele

Most people are still picturing a child who can’t sit still, but for the women I work with, the reality is something ent...
16/06/2026

Most people are still picturing a child who can’t sit still, but for the women I work with, the reality is something entirely different and it often goes unrecognised for decades.

It is not a lack of willpower, it is a dopamine system that needs different fuel and no amount of trying harder is going to change the underlying biology behind that.

It is not being “too sensitive” either, it is RSD, which is a nervous system response with a real name and a real mechanism, not a personality flaw that needs fixing.

And it is definitely not something that simply gets easier with age, because for many women it intensifies significantly in perimenopause, as hormonal shifts unmask everything that masking used to hide so well.

If any of those realities landed for you, please hear this clearly, you are not late, you are not too much and you are not failing at something everyone else seems to find easy.

You are simply seeing, for the first time, what has actually been happening all along, and that is the beginning of everything changing.

If you want support making sense of your own picture, I would love to work with you 1:1, and the link to book is in my bio. đź’›

Much love,
Adele

King’s College London.... 656 women aged 45 to 60. ...Published July 2025 in the Journal of Attention Disorders.The find...
11/06/2026

King’s College London.... 656 women aged 45 to 60. ...Published July 2025 in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

The finding:

The more severe a woman’s ADHD symptoms, the worse her menopausal symptoms were likely to be.

Read that again. Fun times, eh?!

It’s not coincidence...it’s not stress… it’s not failing...it’s not “a tough season.”

There is a measurable, statistically significant relationship between how your ADHD presents and how your menopause hits.

This is what women have been gas lighting themselevs about for years and now a study validates it.

Here’s what that means for you:

If you’ve been told your brain fog is anxiety, your exhaustion is burnout, your overwhelm is “just life at 44” -you’ve been given half the picture, possibly less.

The ADHD nervous system runs on hormonal support.

When oestrogen and progesterone start to fluctuate and fall in perimenopause, that support goes.

The symptoms that get labelled “perimenopause” land harder, last longer and respond worse to the standard advice because they are also ADHD symptoms being amplified by hormonal change.

Meditating on its own doesn’t fix that.

An SSRI on its own doesn’t fix that.

What does help is understanding the mechanism, tracking your own pattern and getting the hormones AND ADHD conversation on the table together, with your practitioners, your psych, your GP, your menopause specialist and most importantly with yourself.

That’s the work I do....that’s what Hormones and Headspace is built for.

The map that joins your hormones, your cycle and your ADHD into one picture so you can finally stop trying to manage the wrong thing.

Link in bio. đź’›

Save this. Send it to the friend who’s been told to just try yoga! Take it to your next appointment.

Much love,
Adele

Study: Chapman, Gupta, Hunter & Dommett (2025). Examining the Link Between ADHD Symptoms and Menopausal Experiences. Journal of Attention Disorders.

Iron is a cofactor for dopamine synthesis. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter at the centre of every ADHD.So, if your ferr...
10/06/2026

Iron is a cofactor for dopamine synthesis. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter at the centre of every ADHD.

So, if your ferritin is low, even technically within range, your ADHD brain is not getting what it needs.

In perimenopause this becomes even more layered:
Oestrogen fluctuations affect dopamine signalling.
Progesterone withdrawal increases stress sensitivity.
Low ferritin amplifies flat mood, apathy and brain fog in ways that are very hard to distinguish from the ADHD itself.

Swipe through and save this one. The full Ferritin and Nutrition Guide drops at the end of the month inside the Skool community. đź’›

Follow along for more.

Much love,
Adele

09/06/2026

Here’s what’s actually most likely happening and the one thing I want you to take away from this post…

Progesterone goes first in perimenopause, and your calming system goes with it.

Oestrogen fluctuates, and dopamine destabilises.

The coping strategies you spent twenty years building…. the lists, the alarms, the discipline, the masking - quietly stop working. Not because you stopped trying, but because the hormones holding them up changed.

You’re not falling apart, you’re unmasking

The takeaway:

Start tracking the pattern. For the next four weeks, write down three things at the end of each day:

1. What day of your cycle you’re on (or where you are if your cycle’s gone irregular).

2. One word for how your brain felt today. Foggy…Sharp…Flooded…Quiet. Whatever lands.

3. One thing that was harder than it should have been

That’s it…4 weeks of that and you’ll see the pattern your GP can’t see in a ten-minute appointment. You’ll have language and you’ll have evidence. You’ll have something to bring to the conversation that actually moves it forward.

This is the work that should have been offered to you years ago. It’s also exactly what Hormones and Headspace walks you through, in full, with the mechanism and the map.

If you’d want a deeper dive, I can help you in clinic.

Links in bio. đź’›

Save this for the next foggy morning.

Much love,
Adele

Here’s what nobody’s saying.This isn’t a personality change, it’s a hormonal one. Progesterone drops first in perimenopa...
08/06/2026

Here’s what nobody’s saying.

This isn’t a personality change, it’s a hormonal one.

Progesterone drops first in perimenopause, and your nervous system buffering goes with it.

Oestrogen fluctuates, and dopamine destabilises. The version of you that held it all together for twenty years is running on a system that just changed the rules.

You’re not the problem, the conditions changed...and the conditions have a name, a mechanism, and something you can actually do about them, which is considerably more useful than another mindfulness app!!

Here’s the one thing I want you to take away.

For the next four weeks, track three things at the end of each day. What day of your cycle you’re on..one word for how your brain felt...one thing that was harder than it should have been. You can download a free tracker form my webiste to help with this.

Four weeks of that and you’ll see the pattern your practitioner can’t see in a ten-minute appointment. You’ll have language....you’ll have evidence....you’ll have something to bring to the conversation that actually moves it forward.

That’s exactly what Hormones and Headspace walks you through, in full, with the mechanism and the map.
Link in bio. đź’›

Save this for the next woman who’s been told to just manage better.

Much love,
Adele

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