The ADHD Women’s Podcast: Retraining our Brains to Thrive: Chronic Conditions, Pain, Trauma and ADHD
Podcast overview
An episode of the ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, a widely followed podcast for neurodivergent women
Features Ashok Gupta, creator of the Gupta Recovery Programme and a long-standing researcher and practitioner in chronic illness and trauma
Explores recovery from ME/CFS, Long Covid and related conditions through a neuroplasticity and nervous system lens
What someone who is neurodivergent with chronic illness can learn
Ashok’s personal recovery story from ME/CFS and how it led to the development of the Gupta Programme
How the nervous system and fear or threat responses can drive ongoing symptoms
Why calming the nervous system is central to recovery, rather than pushing the body
How early life experiences and trauma can shape the brain’s threat response
The role of neuroplasticity in retraining the brain towards safety, resilience and health
How ADHD traits may interact with fear, stress and chronic illness patterns
An overview of Ashok’s neuroplasticity-based recovery approach and the evidence behind it
