Why You Snap At People You Love, The ALIGN Method, & Why ADHD Isn't A Disorder | Sara Hartley
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Release Date: 09/02/2026
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info_outlineYour body knows if a room is safe before your brain even understands why. If you don't know what to do with that signal, it doesn't just disappear, it gets handed to the people who love you most.
In this episode, Stephen sits down with Sara Hartley, ADHD and nervous system regulation coach and children's book author, to unpack the hidden physical sequence that happens in your body in the seconds before you snap, and the exact tool she built to interrupt it in under 60 seconds.
It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in real time: the strength to lead and perform at a high level, paired with the humility to stop, name what's happening in your body, and choose a response instead of a reaction.
What you'll learn in this episode:
- Why the people you love most usually get the worst of your dysregulation, and it's not because you don't love them
- The physical "sword and shield" sensation Stephen felt every time he was triggered, before he had a name for it
- The difference between fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and why some people fully disassociate and don't remember what happened
- The ALIGN method: the 5-step, under-60-second tool for shifting from reaction to response
- Why high-capacity leaders are so good at hiding dysfunction, and what it's actually costing them
- Why "you're not set in your ways, you're choosing to stay in your way"
Episode Highlights:
0:00 Trailer
1:09 Welcome & meet Sara Hartley
4:36 Understanding triggers & dysregulation
22:20 The ALIGN Method: reaction to response in 60 seconds
28:01 Breaking patterns you've carried for decades
36:37 Sara's story: ADHD, burnout & Lyme disease
46:14 Why leaders hide dysfunction
58:22 Reframing ADHD as a superpower
1:01:40 Parenting & regulating at home
1:12:43 Sara's free tools, quiz & where to find her
1:16:37 Rapid fire round
Connect with Sara Hartley:
Website (free ALIGN resources, quiz & children's books): saralouishartley.com
Instagram: @saralouishartley
Connect with Stephen Scoggins:
Website: stephenscoggins.com
Instagram: instagram.com/stephen_scoggins
TikTok: tiktok.com/@stephen_scoggins
Facebook: facebook.com/stephenscoggins
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stephenscoggins
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