{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Hormonal Hotline","title":"Are You Failing, or Is It Just Your Hormones? - Dr Tuesday Watts on PMDD & Neurodivergent Motherhood","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3781,"description":"\"It's like the colour just drains out of your life for two weeks a month.\"\n\nWhat happens when the coping strategies that got you through your whole life suddenly stop working the moment you become a mum? Ellisha sits down with psychologist, speaker and mother-of-three Dr Tuesday Watts for an honest, moving conversation covering unmasking after motherhood, the reality behind her polished social media presence, and getting diagnosed with PMDD while raising three small, neurodivergent-leaning children of her own.\n\nWhat We Cover\n\nDr Tuesday takes us back to her years as an academic psychologist, and how becoming a mum unravelled the perfectionism she'd relied on her whole life - the \"swan analogy\" of looking calm on the surface while paddling like hell underneath.\n\nShe describes PMDD in vivid, unforgettable terms: the colour draining out of her life for two weeks a month, and the full-body despair of only getting a handful of good days to treasure before the fog rolls back in.\n\nDr Tuesday was diagnosed earlier this year after a wave of racing thoughts and anxiety she couldn't explain - and shares the GP appointment she'd geared up to fight for, only to be believed within minutes.\n\nShe unpacks the emerging links between PMDD, ADHD and early perimenopause, and why she's already thinking about how to support her two daughters through it.\n\nWe get into the practical tools that help her regulate in the luteal phase - from construction-site ear defenders to limiting scrolling - and why \"lowering the bar\" is her biggest act of self-compassion.\n\nEllisha and Dr Tuesday close out with listener dilemmas on trusting intuition over PMDD-fuelled thoughts, and how to parent through the guilt of snapping at your kids without losing yourself to shame.\n\nOur Sponsor\n\nEvelyn Health is dedicated to helping those struggling with PMS and PMDD through expert-led, science-backed supplements and functional foods. Having used them for over a year to manage my own hormonal health, I’m so proud...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lPk3ICO79wNq0iJHgObQZZOsRpZyoNUh-NOR2XsCUt0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNWIz/MTkzM2IxYTNhY2Ji/MDdiMWYzYzkzNDNi/YjgzNy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}