How to Use Your Planner for Wellness & ADHD Tracking | Live with Sonia Reports

Hi guys.

Okay, tell me how the volume [snorts] is

people.

I still don't have the high-tech things

that I need.

Like I think I'm supposed to have a

microphone.

I do have a microphone. It's behind me,

but it's not it's not hooked up. So,

there's nothing we can do about that.

Um, but I'm so excited. Today, we're

gonna hang out with Sonia Reports. Sonia

or Sonia? I can't wait um for her to

correct me and I um can't wait to meet

her. So, I'm going to Oh, it does sound

good so far. Thank you. Oh my gosh, I

felt so bad on the other one and I you

guys told me like there was I there was

like nothing I could do in the middle. I

was like, I don't know how to fix this,

which is so classic me. So, I will not

touch this thing phone in front of me so

that it keeps working. Um, so we're

waiting for Sonia to join us and um

before she does, I will just say that I

her she did like a real or a story one

time that I saw and it like stopped me

dead in my tracks. Like the way she was

using her Luna, I think it was or maybe

it was a Scott. I was like what? Like

that is amazing. And then her

contributions. Okay, Sonia just asked.

There you go. Uh her contributions

to

like to our Facebook group are so good.

So so good. So let's welcome her in.

Let's see if it worked. Did I press the

right button?

I did press the right button. Yay.

>> I'm so excited to be here.

>> Oh my gosh. You're as beautiful in real

life live as you are in all your

pictures. How

>> Thank you. You're just cool. I've been

so excited to meet you.

>> Oh my gosh, I'm so excited, too. Thank

you for saying yes. I was getting ready

today and I was like, should I put my

red lipstick on? Um, should I do it in

honor?

>> You shall. [laughter]

>> I should, but I was like, it might look

weird in my yoga class later today. I

don't know. Maybe not. Maybe it won't.

Oh, show up and rock it,

>> right? Just show up, put everything on

and be extra. But, um, I was just

telling everybody how your use of the

your planner, your Laurel Denise

planner, like I just saw a real or a

story or something and it like stopped

me in my tracks and then your

contributions to the Facebook group are

just always so good and so helpful. And

um, I had to reach out and be like, can

we chat? What are you doing? How are you

such an expert? So, thank you for saying

yes. And I'm so excited to hear and see

what you're going to share with us

today. So, do you want to give kind of

like an overview? I know you could share

so much. So, just an overview of like

what you are hoping to show and then we

can dive in and people can get excited.

>> Yay. Okay. So, the invisible hand we see

here is my husband who's trying to help

me set up the cameras.

>> Oh, we love that. We love that.

[laughter]

>> Yes. I'm gonna send you a request to

join the live from another profile so

that I have you have the bird's eye view

to my planner

>> and it's from Boxic Creative.

>> Okay,

>> it should be that.

>> Yes. Except

>> I've never done this.

>> It'll be a first for both. We'll make it

work.

>> It will. Are we gonna split into three?

>> Oh my gosh,

>> guys. And then now

>> this is amazing.

Oh, this is so fun, guys. This is gonna

be reposted so you guys can like zoom in

too at the end, like if you want to

rewatch that that dashboard. That's

insane.

>> Yes. Oh my gosh.

>> So inspiring.

>> Thank you. Thank you. Oh my god. It's I

have to tell you, you are what I hope.

Do you don't hear an echo, right? And

hopefully no one else does.

>> I don't. But I don't if people maybe

just

>> if people do put in the comments I'm

able to see them and then I'll fix it.

>> Yeah. Add it in the comments or even in

the question box, y'all. Oh, and if you

have questions that come up, put them in

the question box.

>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. So, quick um just

intro. I want to first start by saying

that you you and your planners and your

philosophy, the way you approach your

content has truly given me so much space

to heal out loud, to heal the way that I

like could heal and it's been so so so

validating.

>> That is so kind. I'm literally tearing

up. Thank you.

>> Yes. Yes. So, a little bit of

background. I I was a news reporter for

many many years. uh 14 years and then I

became a mama and after I gave u birth I

got really really bad postpartum

depression. So this

>> yes

>> it happens to so many have we had a

story have we had a DM about this

before?

>> I don't think so. Not about this

particular thing.

>> Keep going. I won't derail. I want to

but I'm not going to

>> Oh my god. Please do. I I want to hear

your story too cuz it's so important.

more of us I think need to speak up

about it in our experience. And so for

me when I found this journal I was at

the point in my jour my healing journey

where I was just trying to like

understand what was going on. I had

never ever in my life experienced

depression experience any of the

symptoms I was experiencing. And so for

me, I was just trying to understand um

and I I remember I always loved like

planners and documenting things and that

sort of thing. And um when I found your

page, it was just so

affirming like I was like, "Oh, yes."

Like when you said planners for the way

that you think and you know, and things

like that, I was like, "Oh, it's all

over the place." So hopefully, you know,

this will fit it all. Yes, totally.

There's a room for all the spaghetti of

what we think.

>> Yes. Yes. And so little by little um I

like month by month I would curate um

different things to track and that

became something that was like a

motivator because uh later in my journey

I realized that a lot of the um

postpartum depression was undiagnosed

ADHD and I went through the testing

process and everything I know and so

then suddenly everything made sense and

I was like oh my god so many of the ways

that I used to be successful before is

because it was my dopamine running at

all at all cylinders and journalism is

one of those fields that like you know

is good for it. It runs on dopamine and

so when I had a baby and it disrupted

all the systems I had built for myself.

I was it was really unsettling,

extremely unsettling. And so it made

healing from that postpartum so much

harder. And so then I I paired up with

an ADHD coach and they gave me a lot of

little tips and tricks that I used this

planner to implement. And that is how I

ended up hacking like my dopamine hits

if you will.

>> Yeah.

>> To get things done and to and to figure

out like what was going on with me. And

so so long story short, I'll and I'll

I'll end my personal story on this and

we'll get into the planner. Long story

long story short, I ended up like going

um getting diagnosed with PMDD and I

took I literally took my planner and I

was like I've been tracking for the last

6 months and I noticed a pattern around

my cycle. Right, the week before my