This Season Is Hard, But Your Tears Aren't Wasted #268
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Ten weeks. Fifty-five thousand words to go. One big, messy dream.
I'm officially writing a book, and I’m on a serious countdown. But let’s be real, life isn’t made up of word counts and deadlines. This season is stretching me in ways I didn’t expect, and I’m reminded (again) how hard it is for me to ask for help. So I’m uncomfortably practicing that skill.
In this episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes reality of what it looks like to chase a giant goal as a mom with ADHD. From reworking my timeline and outsourcing laundry to crying on the front curb, this story gets personal. You'll hear how a season of grief, a loving husband, and a research fund created ripple effects that showed up in the most unexpected way over 20 years later.
We often don’t get to see how it all comes together, but this week I got a glimmer of hope and encouragement.
If you’ve ever questioned whether your hard season means anything… this one’s for you. You don’t need a book deal to matter. Your efforts, your tears, your small wins, they all count.
Need some hope today? Come sit with me in the mess. Let’s find the meaning together.
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And the tough decisions that I'm making are worth it because I'm putting my hope in how many families this will affect.
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Are you overwhelmed by motherhood and barely keeping your head above water? Are you confused and frustrated by how all the other moms make it look so easy? You can't figure out how to manage the chaos in your mind, your home, or your family?
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I get you, mama.
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Parenting with ADHD is hard. Here is your permission slip to let go of the Pinterest worthy visions of organization and structure fit for everyone else. Let's do life like our brains do life. Creatively, lovingly, and with all our might. When we embrace who we are and how our brains work, we can figure out how to live our lives successfully and in turn, lead our families.
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Well.
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At the end of the day, we just, just want to be good moms. But spoiler alert, you are already a great mom. ADHD does not mean you're doomed to be a hot mess, Mama. You can rewrite your story from shame spiral to success story, and I'll be right here beside you to cheer you on. Welcome to Motherhood in ADHD.
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Hey there, successful mama. It's your friend, Patricia Sung. Have I got a story for you, but I got some good news. I got some even better news. First, I have so much to say and I gotta write it in. So first up, I have signed my publishing contract, so I will officially be a published author come 2027. So the book is gonna come out in February of 2027. That means that first I'm gonna stop spewing details and just celebrate the moment with you, because if it wasn't for you listening to this podcast, I never would have ended up here.
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I'm still in awe that here is where I am, because this is not where I saw myself being. But, you know, this year, my word of the year, which was actually like, technically a phrase, was let go. And I have on my phone screen to remind myself because I need lots of reminders. It says, let go. Hold everything loosely so that there's space for what's next, as you do not know the full plan. This was so much illustrated to me this week, which is what my story's about. In a sec. But I just wanna celebrate for a second because I think this is something that we, as women who have ADHD don't do.
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We don't celebrate. We don't appreciate how we have worked hard to get somewhere, even if it's not where we thought we would be. And like, wow, I. I'm Just still, like, I. I am still a bit without words to be like, I'm gonna be a published author. That's crazy.
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I never set out to do that.
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But I honestly think if I dig deep down, it's because I didn't think I could, not that I didn't want that. I feel like there was some time capsule when I was little about even though girls, like, you know, third grade, you make those little time capsules. I'm pretty sure I talked about how much I loved writing, but as I got older, trying to write things in school, that felt really hard because I did not know I had adhd. Like, I'm very prolific when I'm excited and passionate about something, but it's something I'm not. Like, writing's really hard for me, and I think I just took on that identity of being, like, light. Like, writing is hard for me and never thought that I could be a published author, even though little Patricia really liked writing. And actually that kind of goes in with the story later too, interestingly enough. But, yeah, I just want to celebrate like, this.
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I did not realize that this is where I was going, but I did it. I signed with Sheldon Press, which is under Hesse, which is one of the big five publishers. And again, I always thought I would self publish my book. I didn't think I would go with a publisher. But in looking at all the options, like, this really was the best setup for the season that I'm currently in. And I really appreciate being able to bounce ideas off my editor. And. And I think it's a good fit.
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You know, who knows? We're right at the beginning here. The contract's only been signed for, like, two weeks, I think, as I'm recording this. And, yeah, I'm really proud of myself, and I want you to be proud of the things that you do. And it doesn't have to be as.
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Big as a book deal.
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Like, I'm also proud that, like, I'm three weeks into summer and I have not disowned my children or, you know, walked off, or I have not tossed anybody out a window or, like, totally lost my ish by some miracle of the Lord, because it has been an adjustment. So it can be even just those little things of, like, I made it. I made it this far. I made it three weeks into summer, and I'm still smiling and laughing about it. There have been times where I was not smiling and times where I'm like, can you please just get in the car? But overall, we need to celebrate more of Those little things need, need. It's a need to celebrate the things that we have done. So, details. It's due February 2027.
Patricia Sung [00:04:46]:
That means that I have to turn in my manuscript February of 2026, which sounds like really far away. Like, oh my gosh, I have so much time to write this book. Oh no, I do not. Given that my sense of time is terrible. I worked backwards to be like, okay, what, what does this look like? How am I gonna get there? And we even pushed back the deadline a bit because originally we were going to wrap it up in the fall, but it took us a while to get through the contract negotiations. And so by the time we actually signed it, it was like, ooh, that's probably too much for me to try to get it done by October, given that it's now summertime. And I was steadily working on it towards the beginning of the year. And then all the crazy stuff came in with the end of the school year and stuff.
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And I really wasn't getting a lot done, which talked to you about last time and, and realizing I just need more space. So we pushed it back a little bit, but that really doesn't give me a lot of time. So it worked backwards of like, okay, I've gotta turn the manuscript in February 1st, but that's really like the end of January. Because if my, my agreement here is February, it thinks I actually get February. And I don't, it's February 1st. So it's really the end of January that it's due. And if I look at January, like one of my kids birthdays is in there, we're coming off the holidays. Like there's really only like two or three like work weeks in January for me, like between other stuff going on.
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And I really want that month to be like, for editing and making sure that like all the final touches are on. So like, if I look back I'm like, okay, well December, that's the holidays plus the end of November. Like, I don't really want to be doing a major stressful project during the holidays. So it's like, okay, well I really want to get this done before the holidays. So I set my goal for me is to have the manuscript finished by the beginning of November, so that I have like the middle ish November for breath, for space, and hopefully have most of it done before the holidays start, knowing that I then have January to like tie up the loose ends, finish up editing, and it'll be done in February. But if I think about that end of November, that's really the end of October. What else is happening in October? The retreat, which is a big project. And if you haven't gotten your ticket, there's still a couple of deluxe tenny homes available.
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So go get it. It's patriciasung.com/retreat, but, like, I have a lot of planning to do in October for you who are going to come and have a lovely weekend. So. So throughout September and October, we're gonna be working on that. And then it was like, oh, wait, that really, like, brings me up to, like, the beginning of school. So the first week of school's really busy. And then the, like the weeks around the retreat, I always give myself, like, a week to recover and, like, rest because it's a lot of work for me. Like, I.
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I love it, but, like, it's still. It's. It's effort. So I give myself the week after. It'll be like, whew, I did it. And have some rest. I don't, like, plan a bunch of meetings that week. Um, but it's like, well, if I start taking out those weeks and the, like, beginning of school and like, I look at the summer of like, when the kids.
Patricia Sung [00:07:23]:
What, like weeks during camp versus when we're going on vacation, all of a sudden I like, did the math and it was like, oh, my gosh. Oh, no. And then also, like, considering things, like, I think about, like, my cycle sinking and, like, there's gonna be some weeks where I don't feel good and like, somewhere in there somebody might get a stomach bug. And like, I did all the calculations out to be, like, I have about 10 weeks where it will be, like, writing weeks, which is not a lot.
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Of time to write a book.
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10 weeks. 10 weeks to write a book. Um, right now I have words. My goals are, like, roughly around 70,000 words, knowing that, like, a good chunk of them will get cut in the editing process. Because I'm a very wordy person, if you haven't noticed. I'm like, wow, I gotta write like, 55,000 words in 10 weeks. And I have a lot of chapters right now. I have about.
Patricia Sung [00:08:08]:
My plan is, like, 42 chapters because I want them to be short and manageable. So, like, you feel like you got, like, you feel accomplished when you read a chapter. But I don't want them to be super duper long because a lot of us have, like, learning disabilities and issues with reading and attention, all that. So I try to keep them short. So. So I'm looking at like 55,000 words or like 40ish. Chapters. That means every week that I'm on, like these 10 weeks that are like you know, go, go, go.
Patricia Sung [00:08:34]:
Writing weeks I'm having to write like the goal's like about 5,500 or like 6,000 words or four chapters in that week that like I'm on.
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That is a lofty goal.
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I'm okay with it because I know that there's a lot of other weeks in there that I'm not going to be working on it. So it's like I'm going to like, you know, go balls to the walls when I'm doing it, but then I have space in between to rest. Like, like that's a lofty goal. I'm not gonna lie. It's. I'm. I gotta be, I'm a hustle, I gotta hustle. But it's a really good reminder for myself to be like, hey, when your deadline seems really far away, it's like, ah, I'll just put that up.
Patricia Sung [00:09:06]:
And I can't in this case. So when I walk through the plan like work backwards and figure out like, and to see like, oh, this is what it actually looks like. It's about 10 weeks of writing Go, you know, at tornado speed. In those weeks that I'm really working on the like getting everything out of my brain and onto the page. Granted it doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be polished, it's not edited. But like just to get it all out, that's so much more helpful for my brain to see that like this is not a date that's like way off in the sunset somewhere. I need those markers frequently in front of me and like I need the shorter deadlines to make my brain know that this is like the task at hand. So that's one of the ways that I'm supporting myself in getting this done.
Patricia Sung [00:09:50]:
I'm also supporting myself with some help around the house. Because like as a business owner I don't usually feel bad spending money on business of stuff like cuz it feels official. But I will feel bad about help at home, which sounds kind of silly cuz like when I look at it I'm like Patricia, there's only so many hours in the day. So if you're doing work, work, it's. That's an hour. You're not doing home stuff. I wanna say homework, like work at home or you know, mom stuff. It's like there's still only so many hours in the day and there's things that I don't need to be Doing and actually like, most of the stuff in my business I like doing.
Patricia Sung [00:10:21]:
There's some things that I like, really could be fine never doing again. But if I like doing those things, why would I not get help doing the stuff that I don't like? So I have some help, like, with stuff around the house, like laundry and dishes and that kind of stuff. Just extra support there in this time, especially with my husband traveling a lot is. And I need. I need help. I need help if I'm gonna write this book in 10 weeks, I need help. And I'm also supporting myself by resigning with my business coach, who is Tracy Stanger. You've heard her on the podcast before.
Patricia Sung [00:10:51]:
Like, she's so good at helping me prioritize and work through, like, what's on my mind and what is it okay to put down and having an extra, like, outside set of opinions, an objective person to be like, it's okay that you don't work on this right now. Like, and keeping me holding myself accountable, which I'm like, I'm not gonna go on my accountability soapbox today. Cause I gotta record this before I go pick up my kids from camp in like, 15 minutes. So I'm on. I'm on time cloud. Patricia. No sidebars. We don't have time for that.
Patricia Sung [00:11:21]:
Okay. Making sure that I am supporting myself in the way that I need to get where I need to go. And I know that my support's not gonna necessarily look like your support. And what I need in this season is gonna be really different than what I needed last season or that I might need in two years. But, like, I got 10 weeks to write a book. So I now have the fire under my rear to make this happen. Because now the deadline has been signed in ink, and I have a financial penalty if I turn the book in late. So, like, we got.
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We gots to go.
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And knowing that it's okay for me to ask for extra help when I'm taking on this extra really big project, that it is okay to ask for support to get help where I need it, when I need it and in that season. And that, like, one of the hardest things with having ADHD is, like, the. The concept of time. And a lot of times it's like, I don't understand sometimes. Like, my brain doesn't connect with, like, what's going on right now isn't necessarily permanent. And, like, what I'll be dealing with in two months is not necessarily going to look like right now. And my. Like, that's one of the like, places where I see my ADHD shows up the most is that the concept of time and, you know, seasons changing and what have you, and that I, like, want my willingness to ask for help and support as I take on this huge project to, like, give you the permission stuff, also to ask for the help that you need, no matter what that looks like for you, but that it's okay to get some help or to ask the people around you to pitch in and to, like, I have a ton of friends who have offered to, like, take the kids for playdates so that I can spend an hour or two writing.
Patricia Sung [00:12:58]:
And like, normally I'm like, oh, no, it's okay. I'm fine. No, I'll meet you there and I'll hang out with you. And my friends are like, no, your job is to write the book. Your kids can come with my kids. They'll actually be more entertained because someone's here, like, let me do this for you. And it has been a monumental shift in me allowing other people to help me, and it still makes me feel a wee bit uncomfortable. And I just keep telling myself, I'm just gonna pull all those people in the thank you part of the acknowledgments.
Patricia Sung [00:13:25]:
I hope I don't forget them to be like, thank you for supporting me. Thank you for helping me as a mom be able to do this project that most people don't do with young kids. Most people write their book when they're, you know, the CEO that has a whole team behind them, and they're like, old white dudes who don't have to deal with toddlers, like, or people who are empty nesters, like, people who have less responsibilities have capacity for writing books. And so for all the moms who want to write a book, like, I want to prove that this is doable for us and that it's okay for us to ask for help. In the, like, season of time that it takes you to write this book, you are welcome to ask for help. And it doesn't just go for, like, having a big project. It's like recognizing that in the season that you're in, you may need something different than you need in a different season. And that's okay.
Patricia Sung [00:14:13]:
So let me just put that soapbox down and tell you my. My story that has to go along with all this.
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You literally only have to show up and I will take it from there. We are staying at the peaceful Happy Goat Retreat just outside of Houston, Texas. I have rented the entire property so we have it all to ourselves where we will enjoy nature and breathe deep in the fresh air and the calm of the lake and the sway of the trees. But this is not camping. This is glamping. You will stay in your very own adorable modern, tiny home with your own comfy queen size bed, your own private bathroom and living space that's just for you. Go check out the pictures I posted on my website because it is so cute. We will spend the weekend learning about our ADHD and tune into who you are and what you need so that you can trust your gut and love yourself a little bit more.
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All while eating delicious food you didn't cook, you didn't clean up and hanging out with awesome other ADHD mamas who.
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Are just like you in this journey.
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Of understanding ADHD and also trying to.
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Do all the things.
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But not this weekend. This weekend you are doing none of the things. You are relaxing. I will take care of everything and you get to focus on you. Head over to my website patriciasung.com/retreat and get your ticket. This is a small group of 14 mamas and we already have a bunch.
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Of mamas going so I don't have.
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One of my best friends is having a really tough time right now and she is on the struggle bus and like without going into all the details, it's just been a really hard time. One of them is with her kids One of the kids, like, they're looking for another school. Like, it's just. There's been a lot of stress there. And so she was having a rough day the other day, and we're, like, texting back and forth, like, late night, and she says to me, like, I just want to, like, sit and cry, but I don't have time to waste on that. And I disagreed with her. I told her, I don't think that crying is a waste at all. Like, we can't get past our feelings without going through them.
Patricia Sung [00:17:30]:
So crying is not wasted. Like, we. Yes, we can't stay there forever, but letting our feelings out is how we get through them. And just stuffing them all down does not actually move us forward. It's a whole. There's a whole other can of worms that stuffed feelings create. But it's never wasted when we cry. And, like, especially if you're crying out to God and being like, I really need help here.
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Like, I don't know what else to do. I don't know how to fix this, and I need your help. Like, that is never wasted effort, and God never wastes those trials. And this was just totally, like, whacked me upside the head the next morning. So we go through this whole conversation where I'm like, listen, it is not a waste for you to cry. It is not a waste to feel your feelings. Like, we are meant as humans to feel feelings. Like, that's why we were created to have feelings, and that's how we get through them.
Patricia Sung [00:18:21]:
And yes, at some point, we do have to, like, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and keep going. But feelings aren't wasted. Crying's not wasted. And if you believe in a higher power, like, I think God wastes nothing. I think he uses everything that we're going through for our good. And, like, no, it's not to say that he's punishing us because you made a bad decision and now you gotta deal with this. Like, like, we live in a world where a lot of bad things happen, so you didn't necessarily cause these things. And he's not, like, giving you consequences.
Patricia Sung [00:18:48]:
There are consequences to our actions, but he's not punishing you. But he does allow us to struggle because we. We don't learn very well when we don't struggle. Like, let's be real here. We do not learn anything. When everything's easy, we don't learn stuff. So we have to go through the struggle in order to learn, in order to grow. Like, we can't become a better version of ourselves or a more mature version of ourselves or a changed version of ourselves by doing the same thing all the time, we have to deal with things and learn how to adapt and persevere and, you know, increase our grit in order to be the next version of ourselves.
Patricia Sung [00:19:25]:
So I gave my friend this pep talk. I'm like, you can do it. Like, I know this is really hard. I know this really sucks. Like, everything about this is too much. And it's okay for you to cry. It's okay for you to set your worries at God's feet and be like, I can't do this by myself. I need your help.
Patricia Sung [00:19:42]:
That's part of our, like, worship to him is to give up and be like, it's not me, it's you. Like, I will rely on you because I feeble little human here cannot do it on my own. I need you. You to help me to get through this. And we don't understand it at the time. We don't get the struggle that's going on because we don't have the gift of hindsight yet to turn around and be like, look where it is. Well, don't you know? The Lord brought me hindsight the next morning. So the same friend, the next morning, she's like, I'm feeling a lot better.
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And she texts me this article. And she's like, this pastor who I'm not really familiar with, but I've heard his name before, his name's Tim Keller, who was, like, a prolific writer and went through, like, really awful cancer journey at the end. And this article is, like, written about the songs that he picked out for his memorial and just how he persevered through the end of being so sick and found so much joy, even though life was really hard at the end. She's like, this article just really was powerful. It helped me know that, like, this is. This was part of his story, was ministering to people and sharing his joy through the pain of all the cancer treatments at the end of his life. And can I tell you, the ugly bawling that I read this article, not because I have. I literally don't know this guy from a hole in the wall, but when I tell you that God wastes nothing, here's my best friend crying over some really hard stuff.
Patricia Sung [00:21:04]:
And I told her in that sequence of texts was like, I cried so hard when my mom passed away, which has now been 20 years. And I distinctly remember, like, a couple days after she passed away, sitting on the front curb of my dad's house, just bawling And I was talking to my best friend from when I was growing up and just, I mean, ugly crying. I easily could be, like, those tears were wasted. Like, I can't bring her back. I'm just trying to get all of this sadness out of me, which is, like, literally impossible when you lose somebody that important to you. And I easily could have thought, like, those tears were wasted because they didn't change the situation. Like, my mom was still dead. She's still dead now.
Patricia Sung [00:21:46]:
Like, the crying didn't change any of that. But when I tell you I read this article, shortly into the article, it starts talking about some clinical trial that he had been trying because he got Covid and, like, it was just really hard. And he did some experimental stuff in a clinical trial that was derived from some gallbladder cancer research about the DNA mutations that had been identified. The article cites nothing more than this, but I know that. Rewind. Fifteen years ago, when my husband and I got married, we did not give out favors to our guest. My sweet, sweet husband instead looked up where there was gallbladder cancer research being done, because that's what my mom passed away from. And there was literally a singular place doing gallbladder cancer research, which was at Johns Hopkins, because gallbladder cancer is a very rare cancer, and it also primarily affects minorities, which means there's not funding there.
Patricia Sung [00:22:48]:
And Johns Hopkins was the only place that had gallbladder cancer research going on. So my sweet husband starts a research fund with Johns Hopkins for the singular professor who is doing research on gallbladder cancer. So we have been funding Dr. Rubin's work for now 15 years. We, like, have slowly, over time, built up funds there, and then they use the interest on that money to pay for the research. And Dr. Rubin is the one who. He and his team mapped the DNA mutations that happen in gallbladder cancer.
Patricia Sung [00:23:23]:
Our research fund funded that research that is now here, sitting in this article about some pastor I've barely heard of. And they wrote an article about it, which now my best friend is saying helped her so much, and she's sending it to me now, 15 years later, 20 years after my mom passed away, about how this article really helped her today, and I'm sure it helped Tim Keller with his cancer a whole lot more than that. The fund that we started 15 years ago because of my mom passing away 20 years ago is now shown up on my telephone and proved to me that while I. I could have said that those tears sitting on the front curb of my dad's house were wasted and I'm getting confirmation 20 years later. Those tears were not wasted. That trial was not wasted. That struggle was not wasted. Because the loss of my mom and how it affected me is what brought my husband to say, what if we did this instead of giving out favors? What if we started investing our money into this fund so that doctors can research, because he knew how much I loved my mom, that he was willing to do that, that he even thought to do that.
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He's an excellent gift giver, by the way. Like, how crazy is that? Like, what's the likelihood? Like, there's no way I could have told you 20 years ago, sitting on the curb crying that it could come to anything, let alone the ripple effect that that research has had on who knows how many hundreds of families, that hopefully it will help find the cure at some point. But that that research helped this pastor who they wrote the article that, my friend, it's just like, blows my mind. We don't understand at all the ripple effects that happen with the actions that we take today. Which makes me think, you know what? There's been so many hard decisions in saying I'm going to write this book and how many things I've had to cut so that I have space for it. And I don't know the effect that my book will have. I don't know what's going to happen once I put those words on the page and send them out into the universe. I don't know.
Patricia Sung [00:25:26]:
But this week I got the gift of seeing that my struggle from 20 years ago and my choices from 15 years ago made a huge difference. And we don't usually get that kind of confirmation, but it makes it worth it to me to know, like, it's like that little, like, nudge of God saying, like, you. You don't get it, Patricia, but you don't have to. Like, I'm working on all this. I am making sure all the pieces come into place. And, like, that struggle of losing your mom was not wasted. It wasn't lost. Like, was it hard? Yes.
Patricia Sung [00:25:59]:
Was it terrible? Yes. Like, would I wish it on anyone? No. But still, there is beauty that comes from that. So when we make hard choices in the moment and we don't understand why or what's going on or how this is all going to come together, we don't have to. What we have to do is trust that this is what we were asked to do, and we do it. So I have a renewed hope that while I don't understand how this book ended up in my lap, it did and it's my job to follow it through. And the tough decisions that I'm making are worth it because I'm putting my hope in how many families this will affect in years to come. The ripple out effect in the Like I I mean, I say at the beginning of the podcast every time it's like that.
Patricia Sung [00:26:43]:
Changing the paradigm of how we look at ADHD and what you're doing matters, Mama. Even when it feels like it doesn't, it matters. Thank you for being here and I'll talk to you soon. Successful Mama.
Patricia Sung [00:26:56]:
For more resources, classes and community, head over to my website, motherhoodinadhd.com.