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September 8
You're the mom who throws amazing birthday parties, volunteers for school events, and always has snacks in your purse. From the outside, you look like you've got it all together. But inside? You're drowning in the endless mental load, feeling guilty because you need breaks from your kids, and wondering why other moms seem to breeze through daily routines that leave you completely drained.
Amy Marie Hann was diagnosed with ADHD at just five years old in the mid-1980s—making her what she calls an "ADHD unicorn." She was the straight-A student taking medication alongside the little boys in the nurse's office, the one who followed all the rules and excelled academically. But when she became a mom to three neurodivergent kids, everything fell apart.
Amy is the author of Master the Mundane, a practical guide for ADHD moms juggling life, home, and family. In this conversation, Amy and Tracy explore how early diagnosis shaped her identity, why traditional parenting advice fails ADHD families, and what it really means to "master the mundane" when your brain craves novelty. Amy shares her game-changing approach to limiting taxing tasks, why she gave herself permission to be bored by the boring things, and how she learned to model self-acceptance for her three ADHD kids.
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"One of the most important things for ADHD brains is that our interests matter. We can make ourselves do boring things. If your whole life is boring, you’re going to struggle."
- Amy Marie Hann
"Your ADHD brain is creative and curious. It struggles to prioritize, but that doesn’t make you broken."
- Amy Marie Hann
"Learning to thrive with your own brain and reparent yourself is one of the best things we can do for our kids."
- Amy Marie Hann
"Limit your taxing tasks, the boring tasks, to six or seven a day. That’s it."
- Amy Marie Hann
"Let the boring things be boring, and get your novelty and stimulation and things that are actually fun and interesting to you."
- Amy Marie Hann
"You can be a really, really great mom and have ADHD. But it does take some intentionality to maybe figure out how it works."
- Amy Marie Hann
"How you talk to yourself is what you're modeling to your children. That's what they're gonna really take away."
- Amy Marie Hann
"When you learn to troubleshoot your own brain, you suddenly have so many more resources to give."
- Amy Marie Hann
- Amy was diagnosed with ADHD at just five years old in the mid-1980s after a teacher recognized signs in her older sister and suggested testing—making her an "ADHD unicorn" as one of the few girls diagnosed so young.
- Despite being a "gold star chaser" who excelled academically, she felt different taking medication in the nurse's office with "all the little boys who got in trouble" while she was the straight-A student and teacher's pet.
- Her fifth-grade PE teacher called her "the mouth of the South" for talking too much, and she knew there was a significant difference in her cognitive abilities on days when she forgot her medication.
- Expected motherhood to fulfill all her needs as a naturally domestic person, but discovered she needed more challenge, breaks from her kids, and mental stimulation—admitting this brought guilt initially.
- Realized that when bored, her ADHD-related struggles with overeating, over-drinking, and over-shopping would flare up because "boredom hits different when you have ADHD."
- Found herself comparing to other moms who could easily follow basic routines like "get up, go to a play date, come back, have nap time, clean the house"—but this routine felt "soul-deadening" for her brain.
[00:50:00 - 01:05:00] Creating Systems That Work and Writing "Master the Mundane"
- Developed her signature system of limiting "taxing tasks" to 6-7 per day: 3 daily tasks, 2 weekly tasks, 1 monthly task, plus 1 "extra" for appointments and social events.
- Her daily three are cleaning sink/counters, planning all meals, and keeping laundry moving—tasks done once daily without expecting perfection all day long.
- Was approached by Wiley publishers at 80,000 Instagram followers who recognized the gap in resources for "ADHD moms raising ADHD kids" and turned her course content into the book.
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