Danielle Ralston shares shower shortcuts for overwhelmed parents with ADHD. Skip washing your hair every time, keep it up, or wash it separately in the sink to cut down the overwhelm.
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Most women don't wash their hair daily anyway, just because one, it's scientific, you don't have to, and two, like, there's all that styling and stuff like that. So my overwhelm with showers was because my hair— like, I didn't like the way wet hair felt. I didn't like if I washed it, it took 100 years to dry it. It had to do all that. So I told myself, when the self-care overwhelm is super, super bad, it's like We'll take a shower and we don't have to wash our hair. So I would take a shower and I didn't do that. And then if it was I needed to wash my hair, then I do it separately and like in the sink, because then I didn't have to get my skin wet. It's a thing, I know, but that was what I did. So I would take showers, so I washed all my skin and did that because I could handle that, but I would leave my hair up so I didn't have to. And then later on that day when I had time, if I needed to wash it, I