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Julie Legg speaks with psychotherapist Karen Dwyer-Tesoriero, who specialises in adult ADHD, complex trauma, and attachment. With over 25 years in social work and psychotherapy, Karen brings both professional expertise and lived experience to the conversation after discovering her own ADHD later in life through her son’s diagnosis.

Together, they discuss powerful overlap between ADHD and trauma, particularly how negative childhood messaging can evolve into legacy burdens that shape adult identity, attachment styles, perfectionism, and people-pleasing. Karen unpacks how rejection sensitivity can be mislabelled as personality disorder, how masking impacts women especially, and how internalised “I’m not good enough” narratives quietly drive anxiety and depression.

00:00 Introducing Karen Dwyer-Tesoriero
04:26 Masking, Talking Too Much & Finding Language for ADHD
09:25 ADHD and Complex Trauma
13:04 Rejection Sensitivity & Misdiagnosis
16:10 Legacy Burdens & Negative Self-Talk
19:26 EMDR, IFS & Nervous System Work
24:23 Attachment Styles in ADHD Adults
29:55 Dare to Believe in Yourself

Key Points from the Episode:

Discovering ADHD later in life through a child’s diagnosis
Masking in women and the “talks too much” childhood narrative
ADHD and complex trauma: where they overlap
Rejection sensitivity vs borderline personality misdiagnosis
How negative childhood messages become “legacy burdens”
Perfectionism and people-pleasing as trauma responses
Attachment styles in ADHD relationships
The role of nervous system regulation in healing
Using EMDR and Internal Family Systems to untangle beliefs
Why “normal” and “perfect” don’t actually exist
Building evidence for “I am good enough”
A daily mantra: Dare to believe in yourself

Links:

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