Rachel Grit - Jesus + ADHD

Rachel Grit - Jesus + ADHD Jesus + ADHD 🪴 As a busy wife, ADHDer, business owner, mom, stepmom, and coparent, I'm in the trenches with you.

I've juggled single motherhood, seeking connection in all the wrong places, building my own business and making ends meet while going through a difficult divorce, wrestling with the faith I'd had my whole life that didn't really feel like my own, and even marrying my best friend in the midst of his cancer journey. Jesus left the 99 to find me and since then I've also found peace, purpose, and the

abundant life He promises. Together, we'll explore practical strategies for managing distractions, overcoming guilt and doubt, building supportive relationships, and nurturing your body, soul, and mind. We'll also dive into the power of redemption, the importance of community, and the joy of keeping our eyes on Jesus amidst the storm. Oh, and we'll also dig into the "how," not just the "what." So, grab your favorite beverage, find a comfortable spot, and let's embark on this journey together. Let's find our true grit and experience the abundant life our Redeemer has in store for us.

09/10/2026

The gap between grace I have for others versus myself is wild when you actually look at it. 😅 A friend tells me she forgot The Thing™, missed the deadline, has read the same paragraph four times - and I don't even have to think about it. Of course. You're carrying a lot. It's fine. This doesn’t define you. And I mean it every. single. time. Then I do the exact same thing and it's not simply a rough morning, it's evidence of who I am and how I’m wrong. Filed away with all the other evidence, building a case I've been prosecuting against myself since about middle school. Never enough, but sometimes also always too much. Sound familiar? And the this isn't a nice sentiment to make you feel better about where you feel you’re falling short. It's a description of where you actually stand with Him. He's not waiting for me or for you to earn His approval. He’s already given us loads upon loads of grace, and me insisting I'm the exception isn't humility - it's arguing with Him, and it gets us nowhere except further from Him. 🫶🏻 So try this: whatever you'd say to your friend, whatever encouragement you’d share, however you’d help her reframe it, say it to yourself. Out loud, in the car, even though it might feel ridiculous. Give yourself the same grace you’d give to your friend, the same grace your Savior has for you.🪴

09/10/2026

Here's what nobody says out loud: you are not under-trying. I'm willing to bet you're an expert in 1. pouring a ton of energy into something then 2. gaslighting yourself that you didn't do enough. And hey, I'm not blaming you for that - that's a society-issue, not a you-issue. 🪴 Because effort is the only tool we ever got handed. Not working? Try harder. Still not working? Get up earlier, sit longer, want it more. So you white-knuckle your way through 30 minutes, and you come out the other side more tired and no closer, and the only conclusion available to you is that you didn't try hard enough. Again. But forcing your way through something is not the same as being in it. You can put in the whole 30 minutes and spend all of it performing for an audience you've imagined into existence. Strip the expectations off and something weird happens: there's nothing left to fail at. No pretense, no scoring, no wondering if you did it right. Just you and Him, which was the entire point before anyone added requirements to it. The effort was never the problem. It’s the audience and being willing to sacrifice your vision of “good enough” for the only opinion that actually matters: His. If you want help figuring out which expectations are actually His and which ones you absorbed along the way, the free Noise Journal walks you through finding them, naming them, and picking one teeny-tiny step. There's a lil bundle of upgrades too if you want extra support. L-I-N-K in my B-I-O. 🫶🏻

09/06/2026

I spent a long time “figuring out” my ADHD like a prerequisite. Get the systems working, get the routines to stick, get my brain generally under control, and THEN show up to the relationship as someone with something to offer. 🪴 Which is a veryyyyyy long project. Ask me how much of it I've finished. The waiting is the part that costs you. Not the ADHD, not the lack of perfection, not the mess - the waiting. Every month, every moment spent trying to earn your way to the starting line is a month you could have spent actually WITH Him, experiencing Him, being nurtured and nourished and cherished by Him, chaos and all. Nowhere in scripture is a clause about getting your brain figured out and organized first. He made that spicy brain, He knows exactly what it does, and He's not out here withholding closeness until you've got the systems running and the mischief managed. You qualify just by reaching out to Him. So show up now. Half-figured-out, mid-diagnosis, three systems deep into a fourth attempt (or a thirtieth 😅). That's exactly who He's expecting. That’s who He’s wanting. He wants YOU. 🫶🏻

09/06/2026

Sometimes my brain is quiet. It happens. It's absolutely lovely and I'm always a teensy bit surprised by it. 🪴 The problem was never that it can't EVER happen, the problem was that I built the whole system, my entire faith and its validity, on this rare occurrence happening - like the brain-on-low-volume was the entry fee to faith, and the mornings it didn't show up were mornings that didn't count (soooo most of them). That's not a standard anyone can hold to on an ongoing basis, especially when we’re working with a neurospicy brain to begin with. It's asking every single day to look like your best one and that’s just not reality. Jesus created your ADHD brain. He's not surprised by it and He's not disappointed by it. A genuine, thriving, close relationship with Him is available on the quiet mornings AND the ones where you're 3 tangents deep before you've finished the first sentence. Neither one is the qualifying round. You qualify just by reaching out to Him. If there's noise in your life that's actually crowding Him out - the commitments, the guilt, the stuff you didn't choose to carry - that's worth dealing with, and the free Noise Journal helps you find it, name it, and pick one teeny-tiny step. There's a lil bundle of upgrades too if you want extra support. L-I-N-K in my B-I-O. 🪴

09/05/2026

And I DID need it, actually. That's the thing. There's this idea that if the thing helping you is small, it doesn't count. Or if it’s not earth-shattering, it’s too silly to matter. That real regulation should look like a system, or a habit stack, or something with a workbook attached. Meanwhile my entire mood pivoted and suddenly my to-do list felt more possible, all because I drank out of the pumpkin mug instead of the regular one. Following the dopamine for a minute isn't a failure to cope properly. Sometimes it IS the coping, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to stop apologizing for that. So if that’s you, hey. Stoppit. 🫶🏻 Soooo yeah. Fun mug. Even a different one for every season. Highly recommend. 🪴

09/04/2026

Oh, NOW you show up. Lovely. Executive function is a fickle mistress and she rarely if ever returns my calls. She tends to wait until the thing is finished, the dishes are done, the email is sent, the hard part is over - and then it strolls in fully rested and asks what else needs doing. And I'm standing there like, where WERE you?!?! I told you to be here 3 hours ago?!?!?! I NEEDED YOU?!?!?!?!?! But oh, thank goodness, you showed up at 4 pm to help me become an overnight expert in the new hobby I randomly decided to pick up. Thaaaaaanks. She's a diva and I've stopped expecting her to arrive on schedule. Now I just take her whenever she turns up and try to point her at something useful before runs out on me again. Anyone else's executive function operate on its own private calendar? 🪴

09/04/2026

Deeply annoying. Wildly nonplussed about it. 😅 I don't want the answer to be a walk. Or drinking more water. Or any of the boring things I KNOW work but that are the LAST FREAKING THING I WANT TO DO. I want the answer to be something I can buy, or download, or set up an elaborate system for on a Sunday afternoon. Instead it's putting shoes on and going outside for sunshine and fresh air like some kind of tragic Victorian invalid (side note - how wild was Everything is Tuberculosis?! Anyways …). And the worst part is it doesn't even take long. A cute lil 10-20 minutes and I come back a different human being. Not fully fixed, not permanently. Just … a couple more cards in the deck, so to speak? The knowing-it-works has never been the problem though. See also: water, sleep, and every other thing my body has been extremely clear about despising despite its efficacy. It’s boring, so we don’t want to do it, and we’re very, VERY annoyed when it actually works. What's the annoyingly simple thing that works for you? 🪴

09/04/2026

The relief of finally Doing the Thing™ is completely out of proportion to the task (but fully proportional to the amount of procrastination that came before it). 😅 Six months. Four minutes. And now I'm floating around my house like I've been personally smooched on the head by the Seratonin Fairy (is that a thing?). The part that gets me is that I KNEW it was four minutes. I have always known. Knowing was never the issue and it never has been - the gap between knowing and starting is where I've been living this whole time. Tell me the four-minute thing you're currently 6 months into avoiding. 🪴

09/03/2026

Clever Ape

09/03/2026

First time in the crawl space and I’m OBSESSEDDDDD

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