Calm Is Contagious | A Workshop with Jenna Free

A Live Workshop

ADHD in Relationships

Calm Is Contagious

How to stay regulated with the people you love most: your partner, your kids, your parents.

We communicate well with our co-workers all day and then walk in the door and become the most reactive version of ourselves with the people who matter most.

We get defensive, our patience runs out, we feel the pull to fix and manage everyone around us. And afterwards, the guilt shows up and we promise we'll be more patient tomorrow.

That is not a character flaw or even your ADHD (which I know can also come into play in relationships). Home is where your nervous system is least guarded, so it is where dysregulation can run the show.

This isn't saying
Great, you feel most comfortable at home, so let it rip.
It's saying
I want to work on regulation so I can be connected, at peace and loving in my home with the people that are the most important to me.
Nervous systems are contagious. You can become the anchor of your family and relationships. The one that brings the calm.
A client once told me "But it's so hard to act regulated around my kids all the time, it's exhausting."
And I said "Well, let's get regulated then so you can stop acting."
That is what we are going to do together.
Family photos hanging on a string of fairy lights

What you'll learn

  • Why you get defensive the moment you feel criticized, and how to stay in the conversation instead of shutting it down.
  • Why patience runs out so fast (was it ever even there), and how to cultivate more without just acting like it.
  • Why you try to control or fix the people around you, and how to let them be themselves.
  • How to regulate to make all of this possible without it feeling forced and fake, and how this will affect how those around you show up too.
Jenna Free

About Jenna

Jenna Free is a Certified Canadian Counsellor who helps people with ADHD stop fighting their own brains and start working with them. Her focus is the nervous system, which is the real reason regulation feels so hard, instead of another pile of hacks and tips that never seem to stick.

She is the author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, and has built a large community of people moving from overwhelmed and reactive to calm, present and steady. This workshop brings that same work home, to the people who matter most.

A workshop with Jenna Free