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Join me as I discover Why Am I Like This? at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 4-19 (not 13).

15/12/2023

It is no exaggeration to say that performing Why Am I Like This? altered my brain chemistry.

My brain understands failure. It understands fear & rejection. It understands disappointment, reticence, giving up, & not being brave enough to just try.

It has no concept of success. No concept of achieving a lifelong dream. No concept of being helped, loved & supported again & again. No concept of being brave enough to just try.

But that is exactly what happened. And my brain short circuited & went back to what it knows best. The day after the show ended, I became convinced that people only saw it out of pity. That it was utter s**t & no one would tell me the truth.

Since that day I've been drowning in embarrassment & shame, convinced that I was on the outside of the inside joke - & the joke was me & my foolish idea that I had something worthwhile to say.

My ADHD diagnosis saved my life, but it can't fix it. I thought if I could understand myself, if I could "conquer" the thing that held me back I would be a different person - but in August I realised that would never happen. I'm still like this.

And for the first time in maybe my whole life, I just wanted to be quiet.

For months I allowed myself to steep in what I logically knew was a lie. The shame grew arms and legs and wrapped me up tight. I became (& still am) so extremely overwhelmed by social media & my phone in general with messages & emails piling up & calls going unreturned. I stopped leaving my house, sometimes not stepping outside for over a week & only did so when I had a commitment. I found every excuse to stay in my home where I felt safe in my quiet, cosy space I curated.

And then@adhdasfemales invited me to join the Christmas tour & the inimitable put me back on a stage & let me tell a crowd the story of why I am like this...✨And yes, this is me soft launching my Fringe 2024 show, Why Am I (Still) Like This?✨

The ADHDAF Christmas tour has 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 stops. Come and join a magical night full of leopard print & being your fullest ADHD self:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/70811201783

20/11/2023

It's beginning to look a lot like ADHDAFmas and as the lead tour groupie, of course I am along for the (sleigh) ride!

Bloody thrilled to be reunited with to celebrate our Too-Muchness along with the most incredible crew of podcast guests in SEVEN cities across the U.K.:

🎄BIRMINGHAM - Wed 6th Dec
🎄LONDON - SOLD OUT !!
🎄MANCHESTER - Sat 9th Dec
🎄LEEDS - Mon 11th Dec
🎄ABERDEEN - Sun 17th Dec
🎄EDINBURGH - Tue 19th Dec
🎄GLASGOW - Wed 20th Dec
(🎟️ in my bio)

Come for the banter, the songs, the chaos and of course, the head to toe leopard print (swipe for the 🐆proof)

04/11/2023

Hobbits don't reach adulthood until 33 & today I turned 34 so I guess I'm out of excuses.

I spent most of my 20s desperately waiting for my 30s - hoping I hadn't yet peaked and that the best was yet to come. It is a privilege to get older and I feel abundantly blessed to be able to do so.

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Pic 1: right before I fell
Pic 2: immediately after Craig told me stop talking & look at the camera I pull pinecones out of my pocket "look what I found! I forgot to show you"
Pic 3: Craig telling me to put the pinecones away and stop talking & look at the bloody camera.
Pic 4: the only one out of *many* where I am not talking & actually looking at the camera
Pic 5: Right before Craig told me that I definitely have more grey hair now than I used to 👵🏻

30/10/2023

I always thought I loved Belle as a little girl because we both loved to read - turns out we both just have ADHD 💅🏻 ✨

"Look there she goes, that girl is strange, no question. Dazed and distracted, can't you tell? Never part of any crowd, 'cause her head's up on some cloud, no denying she's a funny girl that Belle"

It's ADHD awareness month and I didn't talk about it at all because over the summer I did 20 previews and 20 shows talking about it and I'm still burnt out but ICYMI I have ADHD and... now you're aware.

13/10/2023

✨What's a girl gonna do? A diamond's gotta shine✨

22/09/2023

It's very odd to me that I've lived in Scotland for 6 years because I never intended to live in Scotland at all.

It's still so bizarre to me that I met a random ginger in an airport and married him & moved to his country within 13 months.

The decision to marry (basically a stranger) and move across an ocean - possibly the biggest decision of my life - was made on a whim (hi, ADHD diagnosis!) and I barely had a second to process what I was doing until I arrive in Edinburgh 6 years ago today with several suitcases full of shoes I would never wear again.

I never had a plan for my life that extended past 3 months - but I never could have foreseen moving here let alone making my life here.

But I have - through blood, sweat and tears - made my life here.

"But if I should become a stranger you know that it would make me more than sad, Caledonia's been everything I've ever had."

27/08/2023

"But mostly... this show is for me.

For the person who never thought she could have this moment.

For the kid who could never understand why everyone was laughing when she wasn't trying to be funny or why she was always in trouble when she wasn't trying to be naughty.

For the 20-something who felt so woefully behind her peers, never able to catch up.

For the woman who's life only really began at 30, when 4 little letters unlocked my greatest mystery.

I am like this because I have ADHD"

Thank you to everyone who let me try - who let me answer my big question Why Am I Like This?

**If you missed the show or wish someone in your life could see it - you have until tomorrow to purchase a link to view it online: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/why-am-i-like-this-1 **

25/08/2023

My venue holds 130 seats & I want every single one filled for the last show.

These three weeks have been the most life-affirming I've ever had and of course I want to end on a high - but I also want to make sure every single person who wants to see the show is able to.

So if you can pay full price - amazing! If you want to use the code ADHD50 for a £5 ticket - go for it. And if you want a free ticket - it's yours!

If you've been before and want to come back with your mom/boyfriend/sister or if you're as skint as skint can be or if you just like a cheeky freebie leave a comment/send a DM.

24/08/2023

Every time my confidence wavers I remember the older couple who told me they could *finally* understand their daughter now.

And the person who came back to see the show again... with their mom.

And everyone who has given me the biggest post show hug with tears down their face.

And all the people who stop me on the street and tell me they've seen the show and loved it.

Every comment/message I've gotten to say what this show meant to them.

I didn't know what to expect, but this is more than I could have ever hoped for.

I have high hopes for the future of WAILT? and that's only been made possible by everyone who has given me endless love and support.

I have three shows left - if you've seen it already (even online!), please please please leave a review on the Fringe website (scroll for a step by step guide - I know it's confusing).

Aside from the ego boost 💅🏻 it really helps with reputability, increasing my audience and any and all future endeavours.

*I know I missed a step - I have ADHD and am s**t with details and if you are mean to me about it that's technically a hate crime*

22/08/2023

You know you've made it in Edinburgh when you have an entire feature in ! (And almost all the details are right 😉)

Want to find out why I am like this? You've got four more chances and I can't wait to tell you ❤️

20/08/2023

Near, far, wherever you are - you can finally find out Why Am I Like This!!

It's so hard for me to not make apologies for this very unpolished performance. I wanted to put something perfect out - but the intense desire for perfection is what has stopped me from trying for most of my life.

So I won't apologise - but I will add a little context. In this 45 minute show I have no props, voiceovers, dialogue, etc to help me remember my cues. I just have my (very unreliable) brain.

I finished writing the show about 10 days before this performance and while I had the words memorised, the cues have been painfully evasive.

And it devastated me that I was going to need to use external help. I don't need to go into internal monologue, you can probably guess.

But then a very clever friend helped me see it differently - I have ADHD and am doing a 45 minute solo show with nothing to keep me right but my own brain. I am allowed to have a reasonable accommodation to make my dreams come true.

And that is what I say at the end of every show now - if you think that your dreams can't come true because you can't do things the way other people can, maybe you just need a reasonable accommodation. ❤️

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/why-am-i-like-this-1

And of course - all video credit to the very talented ! 10/10 recommend him for making all your video dreams come true.

17/08/2023

In true ADHD "all-or-nothing" fashion... I'm going for it all!

And I would be lying if I said I wasn't very very nervous about this extension (in a venue that is twice as big as my current one 😬) I can't figure out if it was a great idea or a terrible one.

So far I've had 93% of my seats filled, sold out over half of my shows, multiple 4/5 star reviews, so many incredible audience testimonials, dozens of people leaving the show in tears, several people approaching me on the street to say they saw the show and how much it meant to them ... and my brain still wants to tell me the show isn't good, everyone is faking it and that I am foolish for giving myself more chances to potentially fail.

And maybe I will fail. But... maybe all of my wildest dreams will (continue to) come true.

So tell your friends, write an audience review on the Fringe website, come see the show again - I've got 6 bonus chances for everyone to find out Why I Am Like This?

16/08/2023

... that I will be announcing in the next 48 hours! (assuming I can actually keep my own secret for once 🤐)

Give me your best guess in the comments and the winner gets a prize 🤩

(Also made my rainbow dreams come true with this incredible graffiti 🌈)

12/08/2023

MERCH MERCH MERCH

It's all limited edition and minimal stock so get what you want while you can. If you need it shipped I will 100% do that... after August 🫠

Also shout out to the wind for giving my skirt the most incredible movement and the tourist who took these photos.

https://highheelsandheavysuitcases.myshopify.com

10/08/2023

One of my most prominent ADHD symptoms is emotional dysregulation - not with anger, but with sadness.

Too often it takes so little for me to crumble - I will zone in on the one bad in the ocean of good and torture myself with it.

I was really worried about getting reviewers in because I knew what could happen if I got one that gave me criticism I didn't feel was at the least constructive.

So for the last few months my therapist and I have discussed this - what happens when this happens? We discussed how having an emotional response is okay, letting that emotional response consume me is not.

Yesterday .scotsman came to review my show and unfortunately missed the point. In case the title doesn't make it clear, this show is only about why *I* am like this.

I cannot speak about what it is like to seek diagnosis as anything other than what I am: a white woman with the financial privilege of accessing private assessment.

I have no authority to talk about what it is like to go through this process as someone from a different ethnic background - the show is not called Why Are We Like This? for a reason.

I also do discuss cost and spend a good five minutes talking about the inaccessibility that we all experienced and particularly women experience. But... I do talk a lot - maybe she zoned out at that point?

I let myself feel sad, I ate an entire pizza, and I over shared on the Internet - and now I'm going to choose to see the rest of the ocean.

Thank you for all of your messages of love and support this past week. I don't know the words to express what it means to me.

If you've seen the show, please let me know in the comments (or even better - leave an audience review)

I have big big plans for the show and every positive review helps me get one step further.

I love you all forever ❤️

09/08/2023

Like any good ADHDer knows, leaving things to the last second is the only way to get anything done... right?

If you've been meaning to book a ticket and you just can't seem to get organised enough to pre-plan (no judgement... literally same) you can now get a half price ticket for a same day show!

I've allocated TEN tickets each day until the 18th to the Half Price Hut (at the Box Office located on the Royal Mile).

So grab 9 friends and snag a bargain and find out Why Am I Like This? (spoiler...ADHD)

07/08/2023

TWO SOLD OUT SHOWS?!

What an incredible opening weekend this has been! I am running out of creative ways to say that my mind is blown, my friends are INCREDIBLE and my dreams are happening in real time.

Why Am I Like This? has 11 shows left and tickets are selling selling selling - if you want to come don't wait to book!

04/08/2023

"But for the first time I don’t give in to that voice. Instead I finally let myself just… try. I always thought if I didn’t try then I couldn’t fail, and I didn’t fail then I wasn’t a failure and that was how I’d keep myself safe.

But I didn’t keep myself safe at all; I just kept myself locked away.
Hiding under a blanket of regret and disappointment, fearing the monster under the bed that was never even there.

But with a newfound clarity I finally saw the other side of the coin - if I do try, then maybe - maybe all of my wildest dreams could come true."

Thank you to everyone who has played any role in making my wildest dreams come true. I'll never forget this feeling for as long as I live.

03/08/2023

In May a palm reader told me all my wildest dreams would come true.

If it was any other time in my life I would have rolled my eyes - I didn't have wild dreams. I barely had realistic ones.

I lived without dreams on purpose - the less you hope for the less disappointment you feel.

But not this year. This year I have wild dreams - and they're all coming true.

Why Am I Like This? opens tomorrow - and I am ALREADY 1/3 SOLD OUT! I cannot express what a HUGE deal this is - I am sitting on the floor is utter shock.

I am so excited for tomorrow it hurts - let's do this thing!

28/07/2023

ONE WEEK UNTIL OPENING NIGHT and I'm feeling very -> 😵‍💫🥰🤯🫨🤩😬🥹about it.

If you've somehow not seen it, I've littered Edinburgh with my posters and... I'm looking for guerrilla marketers (in exchange for free tickets!)

All you need to do is take a picture (bonus points if it's a selfie 😉) when you see any of my posters, add it to your IG story & tag me - winner will be chosen on August 4th to get 2 tickets for Saturday August 5th at 3pm!

This one-woman show could never ever ever have happened without the dozens and dozens of people who helped me get here.

You all make my dreams come true ❤️

25/07/2023

"And before I knew it, I impulsively paid £1,000, signed a contract and had a one woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
.. And I think I've made a huge mistake.

Finally I opened my laptop and began to write the story of my life: 'Why Am I Like This? A one woman show by Nicole Nadler' and.... for the first time in my life I had for nothing to say. I have to sell over 700 tickets and I have nothing to say?! I’m paying £5k to do this and I have nothing to say?!? My entire life people have been begging me to shut the f**k up and the one time I NEED to talk I have nothing to say!?!?"

10 days until I tell the world what I have to say and I feel like this: 🫨🥰🧐🤩🤯🫠🥹😵‍💫

See you there - I truly can hardly wait! (Ticket link in bio ❤️)

21/07/2023

She's 💞everything💞
and he's just 🫥Ken🫥

My inner child is thriving, the patriarchy is smashed, and every night is girls night.

10/10 recommend putting on your pinkest dress & highest heels and taking yourself on a solo date to see this weekend 💅🏻

21/07/2023

To be fully yourself all of the time you either have unending courage or you're just completely unaware of your surroundings.

Sometimes I'm the first, usually I'm the latter.

I am a Person With A Personality, I don't try to be this way - I just *am* this way. And I couldn't understand until very very recently why that was clearly so divisive for some people.

And then I realised that when you live fully and freely yourself - bypassing the societal expectations and ignoring social niceties that many others rigidly live by - they want to break you down because they can't live up to that standard.

So they tell you to stay in your lane, remember your place, and be less so they can be more.

But what they need to remember is that you are not intimidating - they are intimidated by you.

My show, Why Am I Like This? premieres in two weeks (!!!) at and I'm bloody thrilled. I hope to see you there - get a ticket (while you still can 😉) in my bio ❤️

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20/07/2023

🔥Free tickets! 10 of them!🔥

A very lovely benefactor gifted me £100 for the show & I would like to use that money to offer 10 people who otherwise couldn't afford it a free ticket.

People with ADHD are chronically under/unemployed and notoriously bad at managing their finances. I hope that a £10 ticket is affordable for most, but I know that's not possible for many.

If you'd like to see the show (on any day of your choosing) and you cannot afford it I have a free ticket with your name on it - and please don't feel shy to ask - it would be a joy for me to give them to you.

And if you can afford to buy one - the ticket link is in my bio ❤️

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14/07/2023

Am I still re-writing the show? Yes. Will I most likely be performing with a script in hand? Also yes 😬

BUT I HAVE SOLD 100 TICKETS AND I CANNOT STOP CRYING - you all are making my dreams come true (still have 668 to sell but who's counting?!)

My script and I cannot wait to be on stage in front of you in three weeks - I can't believe this is really real 😭

12/07/2023

Because doing a one-woman show just isn't enough, right?!

TOMORROW - I will be at 's Fringe Test Night giving Why Am I Like This a whirl in front of some very important eyes 👀

JULY 30th - I am so excited to be at the pop up party at . You'll hear a 15 minute version of Why Am I Like This & then have a Q&A/conversation about being diagnosed with ADHD late in life.

AUGUST 6th - The Too Much Tour trio is back in full swing.
First: a one hour live podcast recording at 12:30 - there are no tickets available, just first come first serve, but only 30 seats so don't be late!
Second: My show - Why Am I Like this at 3pm at (10/10 recommend it 😉)
Third: a post show talkback at 4:30 with and at to discuss the themes in Why Am I Like This and a Q&A.

No rest for the wicked... or the hyperactive. I'd love to see you at one (or all?!) - ticket links here: https://linktr.ee/highheelsandheavysuitcases

28/06/2023

Everyone loves merch- right?!

There will be some incredible merch items coming in time, but... not this one because it took WAY too long to create this prototype & I can't be arsed doing that ever again.

I set a goal to have 100 tickets sold by July 4 (one month before opening night) and I'm soooo close! So I thought a giveaway would be the perfect thing to help me reach that goal.

All you have to do to win is:

•Buy a ticket (if you've already bought one you're one step ahead of the game) and send me the screenshot.
•Leave a comment telling me why you are like this.
•Share this post to your story with the ticket link to my show (find it in my bio or go to the website and search Why Am I Like This?)

Winner will be announced July 5th ❤️

25/06/2023

When I was 17 I was voted "most likely to win an Oscar" in our senior superlatives.

I combed through the theatre department's costumes and found this red combo & even though I knew it was silly and just for fun, but my little 17 year old body couldn't help but hope this was a good omen.

And then that same girl never let herself try, because she couldn't bare to fail - because her entire life she'd gotten everything wrong.

As an excerpt from my show says: "I had inadvertently presented myself to the world as a person who could not; could not be on time, could not maintain her focus, could not be organised, could not be tidy, could not follow directions, could not stop talking, could not listen, could not be a person the way everyone said I was supposed to be."

How could I do the big and magical things when I could barely do the everyday things?

I would tear the world apart to go to that girl and tell her what I know now.

And while I can't tell her - I can tell you.

Please join me August 4-19 (not 13) at for my debut show, Why Am I Like This?

Putting on a Fringe show is a huge undertaking for anyone; but this is just me & my ADHD brain figuring it out as I go - no co-star, no director - just me. It's also just me financing it, to the tune of about 5k altogether.

You can support me by buying an advanced ticket (https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/why-am-i-like-this?day=06-08-2023) - the more tickets bought before the run starts the better, I cannot tell you what a difference it makes.

(And for everyone far away... I'll sort something for you all too... don't worry)

I can't WAIT to share this story with you 💙

15/06/2023

I have been alive for 12,276 days and in 50 more my show, Why Am I Like This? debuts.

It took 12,326 days for my wildest dream to come true. Almost every one of those days has been spent internalising, and eventually believing that because I can barely get the small things right, I could NEVER even try the big things.

I find no silver linings in ADHD; I refuse to believe that anything that is good about me comes from the thing that has disabled me.

In my eyes there are no positives, no superpowers, no aspects that make me a greater person.

For 12,276 days I wanted to be on a stage, I wanted to spend my life pursuing theatre any way I could. While ADHD isn't the reason I didn't per se, it is the thing that made me believe I was so incapable, so inept, so unable to do the most basic things that I could never even attempt to try the big ones.

And here I am - not just trying but DOING the big things.

I hope the show is a resounding success, I hope it's a sellout, I hope it is the beginning of the rest of my life.

If you're able, please come to the story of my life. I could talk for eternity and not be able to express what it has meant to be so loved and seen and supported and validated these last few weeks.

May we all understand why we are like this & may we all believe we can accomplish the big things ❤️

See you on August 4th (https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/why-am-i-like-this?day=06-08-2023

21/05/2023

I've never been a very well behaved woman.

(Too loud, too talkative, too hyper, too sad, too depressive, too annoying, too needy, too attached, too intense, too bold, too self-conscious, too obsessed, too inquisitive, too keen, too impatient.

Too Much.)

So here's to someday making history.

16/05/2023

Yes that is a "powerful drug" in my mouth.

I've spoken with several people in DMs about this but I wanted to break it down simply for those who might not understand the full impact.

ICYMI yesterday, aired some utter trash in a very weak name of journalism.

(This is not to dispute that people may receive poor services from private clinics nor that misdiagnosis can happen.)

There are a thousand more useful investigations the BBC could have conducted, but they chose this for reasons I cannot understand.

What is frequently misunderstood about ADHD is that all humans experience ADHD symptoms in their most simplified forms: fidgeting, missing deadlines, misplacing your house keys, being late, not sitting still, etc.

If you experience these symptoms (and many more I did not list) that does not mean you have ADHD or have my personal favourite "a little bit of ADHD"

If you DO experience them but in a chronic and overlapping manner that have and continue to be detrimental to your basic existence - ADHD is a strong possibility.

If you're mad - and you should be - you can join the anti-ableist media coalition that created to protest this exact type of bulls**t.

04/05/2023

Is this what destiny feels like?

Three decades of asking the same question and hating myself for not knowing the answer has now given me the chance to live the life I always hoped I could.

My solo show, Why Am I Like This? will premiere at the on August 4th.

No tickets on sale yet bc I missed the last deadline - can you tell I have ADHD?

I've had the beyond incredible opportunity to workshop the show each night on the tour thanks to my wonderful friends for life & 🐆⚡️

You can't get tix to my show yet but you CAN get a ticket to the Too Much Tour if you're in Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol, Truro, Brighton, & Norwich!! (Link in bio)

Everyone else - see you in August xx

13/04/2023

Now that it's officially official - I am really excited to say that I'm joining and on the rest of the Scottish portion of the tour!

I feel wildly blessed to have not only made such wonderful friends, but to have been invited to share in a tiny piece of the massive world they've created.

If you have ADHD, *think* you have ADHD, have a friend/partner/loved one with ADHD - this is the event for you.

All genders are welcome - no diagnosis necessary - 18+ only- leopard print highly encouraged.

Perth 26/4 -
Inverness 27/4 - .Inverness
Glasgow 29/4 -
Edinburgh 30/4 -

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-too-much-tour-1755009?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." For 30 years I couldn't understand why I couldn't climb trees the way everyone else seemed to be able to do so simply. I hated myself for it. I thought it meant I didn't deserve to live. I thought it meant I couldn't ever do anything meaningful with my life. Turns out I wasn't a failure, I just spent 3 decades not knowing I have ADHD. And now I don't need to try to climb trees - I have the whole damn ocean to swim - and I am doing the things I only dreamed possible, like creating my one-woman @edfringe show Why Am I Like This? at @thespaceuk. I hope I'll see you there - tickets in my bio 🐠💙🐟 #EdinburghFringeFestival2023 #EdinburghFringeFestival #EdinburghFringe2023 #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #EdFringe2023 #AdultsWithADHD #LateDiagnosedADHD #ADHDAF #ADHDpodcast #ADHDinWomen #ADHDDiagnosis #LifeWithADHD #ADHDawareness #ADHDLife #ADHDacceptance #ADHDgirlies #WomenWithADHD #GirlsWithADHD #ADHDadult

The countdown is on - it's officially 30 days until opening night and I am just beside myself. Having ADHD has been life-ruining for me, it has viciously taken so much and left little to be grateful for in its path of destruction. But not knowing that it was ADHD causing these problems, thinking it was just who I am as a person - an inept, defunct person - is what truly destroyed me. Knowing why I am like this doesn't minimise my ADHD symptoms, it doesn't make them less prevalent, it doesn't mean I don't spend most of my day dealing with the consequences of my symptoms. It means that I don't hate myself for having them. That I know the world has a space for me in it. That I believe I can do big things even when I can't manage the small ones. I am so excited to answer Why Am I Like This? with you at my show at the @thespaceuk at the @edfringe; tickets are in my bio ❤️ #EdinburghFringeFestival2023 #EdinburghFringeFestival #EdinburghFringe2023 #EdinburghFringe #EdFringe #EdFringe2023 #AdultsWithADHD #LateDiagnosedADHD #ADHDinWomen #ADHDDiagnosis #LifeWithADHD #ADHDWomen

TICKETS ARE SALE!!! My @edfringe show, Why am I like this? is officially official and you can buy a ticket to it!!! @lauraisadhdaf and @dawnisadhdaf were interviewed by @mrtomcampbell at @bbcradionewcastle last week and ever so graciously plugged my show & gave me a chance to talk about it. My show and my life are eternally indebted to @adhdasfemales for bringing me on their @toomuchaberdeen UK tour where the show was born. I am so grateful, so full of love, so joyful to have had this amazing opportunity and to perform Why am In Like This? to hundreds of people across the UK. And in 12 weeks, you can see it too! I'm overwhelmed by the love and support, but I'm a fragile girl so please keep it coming (tickets in my bio ❤️)

When you live in a country that can go days without sunlight, golden hour is an emotional experience. In the morning, my kitchen window gets about two glorious hours of warm morning sunlight. I've started to notice that on cloudy days without it, the rest of my day is a little bit slower and a little bit sadder. I've said a thousand times that I love the privilege of living in a city with such incredible views, but when the sky is finally blue and the sun is blindingly bright, I can't help but feel like the luckiest person I know.

Mostly, this is just a plea for my far away loved ones to add Edinburgh to their 2023 travel list. This is my 7th (!) Christmas here and although I've settled into the British traditions nicely, I will always secretly hope for a trip to the Chinese buffet & the movie theatre. To my beloved Americans, should you visit me, I promise an Edinburgh Christmas you could only begin to dream of - let me know when you've bought tickets and I'll mark my calendar accordingly. ♥️🎄 #christmasinedinburgh #edinburghchristmas #edinburghchristmasmarkets #edinburghchristmaslights #europeanchristmasmarket #christmasinscotland #christmasintheUK #edinburghschristmas #christmastimeineurope #britishchristmas #visitedinburgh #triptoedinburgh #visitscotland #christmasmarketedinburgh #edinburghlights #scottishchristmas #scotlandchristmas

SO so honoured to have been on the ADHD As Females podcast talking (a lot) about my life pre and post diagnosis and the many many ways everything has chance If you want to know more about: a.) Me b.) Adhd c.) Me + ADHD You can listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6l6Pi6MvUJvn5ZVZsClQ0D?si=aCqrcB6DSZuJ0DzqSukrGQ

I always thought the longer I was away & the more I settled in to my life in Edinburgh the less homesick I'd be. I've definitely settled into my life here but... the homesickness just won't go away. So I don't often look at (or post) pictures from home because they always make me so sad - just watching this reel makes me tear up every single time. HOWEVER - today is a happy occasion because I've *finally* booked my ticket home ✈️ and am flying out in just under a month and looking through all the pics and videos from my last trip and I am verklempt.Free your schedules friends & text me to make plans - I can't f**king wait to come home.#AmericansInTheUk #AmericansAbroad #AmericanExpats #TripToAmerica #TripToNYC #RehobothBeachDelaware #ExpatJourney #ExpatLife #ExpatProblems #

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A phrase for a lifetime

Somewhere around 2012, I was staying with a friend from college for a weekend. As I climbed up three flights of stairs in my heels, carrying a suitcase, she looked at me and said, “Why are you always in high heels with heavy suitcases!?” HH&HS has sort of followed me from then, in the very literal sense I often find myself my heels lugging around a piece of luggage. But more than that, I’ve added the tagline, “The Balancing Act of Life”, for a reason. Aren’t we all, in some way or another, teetering on 3 inch or higher heels with our hands full of whatever life throws at us? Now, the name has morphed into a very Insta trendy travel blog name, so I thought I would expand upon that. As a New Yorker in Scotland I’m doing my best to see as much as I can for as long as I am here- come join me!