Hi there, and welcome to Your Balanced Journey.

I’m Nadine Hanna.

After Easter 2023, everything I had tried to uphold just broke. I was burned out.
I couldn't keep pushing myself to perfection anymore. Let me tell you how I got here.

I was born in Sweden to my Lebanese immigrant parents. From a very early age, I stuck out as different. I was outgoing, bossy, social, expressive — I showed every emotion the moment I felt it. I was told I was too loud, too bossy, too emotional, too dramatic. I was so sensitive to everything and everyone around me that I just... shut myself down.

Then high school hit, puberty hit, and something in me flipped. My mom told me years later that I basically changed overnight. After years of shrinking, it was like I had to explode. I started getting into fights, skipping school, getting kicked out of classrooms — I was expelled by the end of 7th grade. The wild part? I was still getting perfect grades.

When I was 14 I moved to Lebanon to live with my dad and grandparents, and I quickly learned that being a rebel there meant real consequences — severe punishment and shame. So I became the good girl everyone expected me to be. I served, I solved, I helped. That pattern followed me all the way into adulthood. When I became a mom, all of that fear of rejection got so loud in my head. I wanted to make sure my children wouldn't grow up hating me, so I did everything I could to keep them happy and satisfied — at the cost of myself.

I realized my oxygen mask had to come on first, as selfish as that felt. I couldn't afford to put myself aside anymore. In January 2024, I was diagnosed with ADHD. And suddenly all of it made sense — the too loud, the too bossy, the too emotional. That wasn't me being too much. That was me being undiagnosed my whole life.

Today I am loud and unapologetic. It's scary sometimes, but I'm becoming more comfortable in my own skin. I see ADHD moms everywhere — leading teams, running businesses, holding families together — and as the pressure adds on, they struggle more and more to cope. They make impulsive decisions they later regret, they burn out, they feel like failures, they beat themselves up. And their children see all of it. That's why I started coaching ADHD moms — so no one else has to break the way I did.

If you're the mom holding it all together while falling apart inside — I see you. I was you.

Best regards,