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When Everything Feels Urgent: Impulsivity, Reactivity, and ADHD in Relationships
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A 60-minute live workshop helping couples understand emotional urgency, impulsivity, and communication patterns when one partner has ADHD, with practical tools to slow moments down and protect connection.
Whether you’re the one with ADHD or the one supporting a partner who has it, this space is designed to give you clarity, compassion, and tools you can start using right away.
Thursday, January 29th, 2026 | Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm CST | Virtual (Zoom) | Pay What You Can
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Save your spot, and register today.
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What are
Good Life Talks?
Good Life Talks are live, educational workshops designed to support emotional awareness, communication, and connection in everyday life. These conversations are grounded in real experiences, practical tools, and a non-judgmental approach to mental health and relationships.
Our talks are not therapy sessions, but they are informed by clinical knowledge, coaching practices, and lived experience. You are welcome to attend solo or with a partner. Sharing is always optional.
About this upcoming workshop
This workshop is a continuation of our previous Good Life Talk, Navigating Relationships When One Partner Has ADHD. That initial session focused on understanding how ADHD impacts relationships and identifying common patterns couples get stuck in.
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Based on participant feedback and requests, this workshop goes deeper into impulsivity and emotional reactivity.
When one partner has ADHD, emotions can move fast. Small moments can suddenly feel urgent. Conversations may escalate quickly, leaving both partners feeling misunderstood or overwhelmed.
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In this workshop, we will explore why urgency shows up, how impulsivity affects communication, and simple ways to slow emotional moments down without blame, shame, or control. No prior knowledge of ADHD or the nervous system is required.
What you'll learn
You’ll walk away with:
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A clearer understanding of emotional urgency in ADHD relationships
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Language for patterns that are often hard to explain
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Practical tools to slow reactive moments in real time
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Greater empathy for both partners’ experiences
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A sense of relief, not more responsibility
This workshop is not about fixing one partner. It’s about helping both people understand each other’s wiring, needs, and responsibilities so the relationship can feel more balanced, safe, and connected.
Past Talks
Good Life Talks are shaped by the voices of our community. Many of our workshops grow directly out of participant feedback and shared experiences.​
Navigating Relationships When One Partner Has ADHD - Dec. 11, 2025
A foundational workshop focused on understanding ADHD in relationships, common communication loops, and tools for working together as a team.
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Participants shared that this workshop helped them feel more understood, gave them language for difficult patterns, and offered tools they could use right away.
About the Facilitators
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We’re a therapist-and-coach couple who not only work with ADHD in relationships professionally, we live it personally. One of us has ADHD and one does not, so we understand what it means to love each other and learn each other at the same time.
Vanessa brings her work as a licensed therapist specializing in emotional and nervous-system regulation, while Tou Ger brings his coaching experience helping clients strengthen communication, confidence, and self-leadership.
Together, we share tools rooted in clinical training, coaching experience, and lived practice; strategies that support healthier communication and connection for couples navigating ADHD, including our own.
The Good Life Mental Health Services
Pay what you can
The Good Life offers equitable sliding scale therapy and coaching so care can remain accessible to our community. If you feel called and have the capacity, you are welcome to contribute any amount to support this work.
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Your contributions help us continue offering educational workshops and accessible mental health services.
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