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

Radical Self-Care: The Key to Preventing Burnout #radicalselfcare #adhdsupport #preventburnout

21 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston explains radical self-care as practical acts like eating, drinking, and moving regularly, not indulgence. For people with ADHD, it's about consistent replenishment to prevent burnout before it starts.

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I can tell you what I think, but it always makes people uncomfortable. And, but then when has that ever stopped me? The cure for burnout is radical self-care. And I don't mean like, okay, so we have to change the way we think about self-care too. When you tell an ADHDer they need to practice self-care, 2 things happen. One, it seems ridiculously indulgent. And 2, it seems selfish. And so I'm not talking about sitting still or taking a 5-hour nap or whatever. If that is what you need, okay. But life is a marathon. And if you don't replenish yourself as you go, you will come to a screeching halt. Self-care is the oil change for your car. Self-care is remembering to eat and remembering to drink water and to move your body. That is self-care. And then.