I’m Kat Wood (formerly known professionally as Kat Ellinger), a writer, film critic, and Jungian thinker exploring the wild, liminal, and soul-rooted experience of life with ADHD. I’m also the creator and host of the podcast ADHD Wild Women—a space for those of us who live on the edges of convention.

After being diagnosed with ADHD at 43, everything changed—and nothing did. I was still the same person, but suddenly I had a language for the parts of me that never fit: the nonlinear rhythms, the chaos and creativity, the restlessness and the depth, and especially the fire. I began to understand that what I’d always thought of as personal failure was actually a life lived out of alignment—with a system, with a personal myth, with a self I hadn’t yet claimed.

That led me to study Jungian psychology, myth, and archetype—eventually completing a Master’s degree on the subject, where my final thesis focused in part on how neurodivergent women are uniquely primed for individuation (the journey psychological toward wholeness). This Substack is part of that journey. Here, I write about ADHD not as a disorder to be hacked, but as a sacred calling. A myth. A soul path.

Expect writing that’s part memoir, part depth psychology, part rebellion. This is a space for wild women with ADHD—and for anyone seeking to reclaim the parts of themselves that have been buried, masked, or shamed.

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