Part 2- Processing Grief as a Neurodivergent: How I Healed from Seeing the Murder of My Mother as a Child and Learning I had ADHD at 39, but was Diagnosed Decades Earlier. An Interview with Iman Gatti

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Iman Gatti is a mother to a four-year-old daughter, author, empowerment trainer and certified grief recovery specialist.

She endured severe childhood trauma, witnessing her father murder her mother when she was 6-years-old, and then growing up in the care system.

At 39 Iman was diagnosed with ADHD, but then found out she was diagnosed as a child, which opened up another type of grief she had to heal from.

Iman has used various grief and trauma tools to create a life she feels happy and fulfilled with.

She now works to empower people to heal from grief and trauma, with a focus on self-love and empowerment.

During this episode we explore:

Effects of undiagnosed ADHD as an adult.

How Iman processed the trauma and grief of being diagnosed as an adult, and then finding out she was diagnosed as a child too; How she reparented herself.

The things she had always done differently to others that prompted her to research ADHD symptoms.

How the ADHD diagnosis has positively changed her outlook on life and how she manages day to day activities and experiences.

The 44 types of grief that affect us, (not just death) and how we can manage these.

Advice on how to process grief, and ways to increase emotional intelligence to learn how to verbalise feelings, which can be difficult to do when neurodivergent.

*Trigger warning*

Contains talk about self-harming behaviours, murder, childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, ADHD, Autism, OCD, anxiety, grief, CPTSD and trauma.

Links

Iman can be contacted via her website, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

Iman’s Books*:

Cracked Open- Never Broken (her memoir)

Fifi’s Morning Song (Children’s Book)

Fifi’s Alphabet Book (Children’s Book)

Book recommendation by Iman during the episode: When Children Grieve

Claire’s article about how to support young people with Grief that linked with a previous pod episode can be found on her website Single Parent Pessimist

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