Garrett Wood (he/him)

Garrett joined Momma on July 6, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about ADHD, Dyslexia & Mid-life Diagnoses

About Garrett

Garrett Wood, NBC-HWC, is a clinical hypnotherapist, executive functioning specialist, and founder of Gnosis Therapy. He works with executives, founders, and entrepreneurs who want sustainable high performance without trading health or relationships. Over 18 years, he developed the A³ Framework—Assess, Accommodate, Align—which maps capacity across seven drivers of performance: sensory intelligence, bio-budgets, emotional regulation, core beliefs, attachment patterns, values, and executive functioning strengths. He applies outcome-based coaching, somatic regulation, and clinical hypnotherapy to end the boom-and-bust cycle of burnout, because sustainable success is built through your well-being, not at its expense.

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Website - https://www.gnosistherapy.com/

• Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/wood.garrett/

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gnosistherapy/

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gnosistherapy/ 

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Book Recommendation: Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma-An Integrative Somatic Approach by Kathy L. Kain , Stephen J. Terrell 

• Parkour

• ADHD

• Dyslexia

• Dysgraphia

• Executive Skills Questionnaire – Revised (ESQ-R) 

• Favorite Poem / Quote: “Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.” ― Mark Twain 

Episode Summary

This episode is for the person who's spent years feeling like they were failing at things that should've been easy, especially if a diagnosis at 40 sounds a little too familiar. Listen to this conversation of Even Tacos Fall Apart for a real conversation about ADHD, dyslexia and getting diagnosed later in life, and why understanding your brain is never too late to matter.

Garrett Wood didn't get diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia until he was 40, and this episode digs into everything that late diagnosis unlocked for him. Garrett is a clinical hypnotherapist and executive functioning specialist who founded Gnosis Therapy, where he works with executives, founders and entrepreneurs who want to perform at a high level without wrecking their health and relationships to get there.

We talk about how he built his A Cubed framework (assess, accommodate, align) after noticing that half of his clients had grown up with a formal ADHD diagnosis while the other half had never even considered one despite living with the same symptoms. That overlap is what sent him toward his own evaluation, where ADHD, dyslexia and dysgraphia all showed up.

Garrett gets specific about what dyslexia and dysgraphia feel like day to day, from mixing up letters while reading for meaning instead of decoding word by word, to years of handwriting that even he couldn't read back afterward. We also spend a good chunk of the conversation on masking and high functioning burnout, the kind where you're succeeding on paper while your coping mechanisms quietly stop keeping up with the effort it takes to hold everything together.

Some of the most honest moments in this episode are about what a diagnosis does and doesn't do. Garrett talks about the relief of finally having a name for what he'd been dealing with his whole life, and about the grief that came with wondering how things might have looked if he'd known sooner. We get into why trauma and burnout can mimic ADHD closely enough to cause a misdiagnosis, why ADHD tends to show up differently for women, and why research on women's health still lags so far behind.

If you can't access a formal diagnosis, Garrett walks through tools like the Executive Strengths Questionnaire that help you start understanding your own brain without needing a clinical label first. We also talk about sleep as one of the most underrated accommodations out there and why one size fits all classroom and workplace accommodations often miss the point entirely.

This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered if the way their brain works has a name, anyone parenting a kid with an IEP or a 504 plan and anyone who has spent years being high functioning while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. Garrett's story is proof that a diagnosis doesn't erase everything that came before it. It just gives you something to finally work with.