Dahna McConnachie

As a yoga teacher, the mantra of ‘treat your body like a temple’ has long been familiar. Though it wasn’t until my forties, when perimenopause and late diagnosed ADHD made my brain and body feel more like a demolition site than a sacred one, that I truly turned to this wisdom. When my forties hit me, my body and mind started to feel like strangers. My body was larger and rounder and achier. My emotions didn’t just feel like waves, they felt like catastrophic deadly storms. The restlessness...

My relationship to, and understanding of, aloha is continually growing and changing and deepening. However, here are some reflection from where I currently am on the mountain! Aloha – as felt by me: when I speak it out loud, I feel my nervous system respond as though it were fabric standing upright being combed down smooth. I feel it internally as naturally as my heartbeat. When I hear others say it, I feel I am at home with tribe. I belong. When I whisper it, I feel I am whispering some...

Saying things like ‘ADHD doesn’t exist’, ‘ADHD is over-diagnosed’, and ‘people use ADHD as an excuse for poor behaviour’ can feel like hate speech to someone with ADHD. To someone like me. Hate speech, intentional or not, is any form of communication that attacks, threatens, insults, or degrades a group or individuals based on inherent characteristics like race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. And, I would like to add ‘or neurotype’ to this list. Yes, there are a lot more...