Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

ADHD, Holiday Stress & Disappointment. Let’s Talk.

18 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston and Shay from ND Out Loud talk through holiday stress, seasonal mood shifts, and dealing with disappointment. They share personal experiences of how the season hits different when you have ADHD, and what actually helps when things don't go as planned.

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Hello, hello, hello! This is Danielle and Shay with ND Out Loud and D Hive, and we are talking about disappointment today. One, holiday stress. We have holiday stress. All of us have holiday stress, even if we're not like— even if we love our family and stuff, there's still holiday stress, right?
Two, the change in weather.
That affects all of us. It's less sunny. Some of us hate the cold. Some of us hate the warm. Some of us hate the drearies. And we, like, there's a different combination for every single one of us. Like, Shay loves the colder weather. I do. I hate the colder weather.
Well, I love the colder weather because it's nice. You get to wear the hoodies and have the blankets and the sweaters, and you just get to feel all cozy and warm. But summer for me is just too hot. You feel sticky and yuck. And yeah.
I'd rather be warm than cold. So I, I like it when it's warmer. So, so we've got that, that's affecting us from a physiological standpoint and from a, um, mental standpoint. So weather affects us, then we have the holidays. Yeah. And then something like disappointment happens. So Shay, I know. Yes. We were talking about this because you've come up against things that kind of combine with a holiday and some disappointment this week. And, and obviously I, I have things that come up here and there.