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Lucy Cooke. ADHD UK Ambassador

Hey! I’m Lucy!

I was diagnosed with ADHD later in life, and before that, I spent years believing I was the problem.

I felt different from everyone else. I felt alone. I felt like I wasn’t good enough, no matter how hard I tried. That disconnect showed up everywhere, especially in my relationship with food and my body.

For a long time, I lived struggles with food and my body. Anorexia. Binge eating. Turning to extremes.

Food became something I could manage when everything else felt overwhelming. And because deep down, I didn’t feel worthy of taking up space.

Getting a late ADHD diagnosis was both a relief and a heartbreak. It explained so much, but it also forced me to grieve the years I spent hating myself for things that were never a personal failure. I wasn’t broken. I was unsupported and misunderstood.

Learning how ADHD actually affects the brain changed my life. It helped me rebuild my relationship with food, my body, and myself. It also opened my eyes to the stigma around ADHD, especially for women, and how often disordered eating, burnout, and self-blame are overlooked or normalised.

Today, my life looks very different.

I run two thriving businesses.

I have a healthy relationship with food.

I feel strong in my body.

And for the first time, I’m genuinely happy.

Now, as an ADHD ambassador and coach, I support women who feel stuck in the same cycles I once lived in. Women who struggle with food, weight, self-worth, and a nervous system that’s been in survival mode for far too long.

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