In this Listener Questions episode, we discuss the challenges of managing ADHD within a relationship where both partners have ADHD, as well as the potential difficulties of managing ADHD later in life.
All tagged Self-Acceptance
This week I had a great conversation with leadership coach Leigh Collier. In this episode we go over the process of how she helps individuals discover the best version of themselves by overcoming limiting beliefs.
Finding Your Path with Shell Mendelson
This week I had a great conversation with Shell Mendelson, a career counselor who specializes in working with adults with ADHD.
Three Years of Hacking Your ADHD
For this year's anniversary episode I decided that I’d take a look back at some of the things I’ve learned about ADHD over the last three years. I’m going to cover some of the a-ha’s and misinformation that I’ve had and seen - as well, I’ll be looking at how my views on trying to be neurotypical have changed and some of the ways I’ve learned to better embrace my ADHD. And of course I just want to mention that this episode is just touching on this topic of what I’ve learned because, well, it’s been a lot.
Your Brain's Not Broken with Dr. Tamara Rosier
In this episode, I interview Dr. Tamara Rosier, who is an ADHD coach and runs the ADHD Center of West Michigan. In this interview, we talk about her book Your Brain’s Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD.
The Myth of Lazy
When we don't do something it's easy to label it as lazy, but often that doesn't tell us what was really going on.
Today we're going to be exploring the idea of lazy and how what we might want to start looking at it a bit differently.
Celebrate Your Winning
Recently I was at practice for my master's ultimate frisbee team and I was thinking about this question of celebrating wins and it occurred to me how perfectly sports can encapsulate the idea of celebrating small wins.
Meeting Yourself Where You're At
Everyone has a list of things they know that they should be starting on now because the sooner the better results you'll see down the line. But we're not starting on them... or when we do we don't stick with the changes.
Today we're going to be looking at what it means to meet ourselves where we're at and then some of the ways that we can work on making that happen.
Get Going with a Fresh Start
In just one more month we're going to be coming up on the halfway point of 2021 — I know, I have no idea how it got here either.
But with this mark in time we're starting to see a shift going on - while COVID certainly isn't a thing of the past, the vaccine role out has opened up a lot of possibilities for what we want our future to look like.
At the end of 2020, I did some planning for 2021, but I knew that a lot of it was going to be uncertain so I didn't make too many specific plans. But now that I'm getting a better grasp of what the future might hold — although let's be honest, with ADHD we're always going to have a lot of uncertainty — I felt like it was time to go over those plans again and maybe give myself a fresh start.
Masquerading As Adults
#Adulting
Now there's something a lot of us can relate to - or relate to the idea that adulting is something we sometimes do, but being an adult is not something we are.
ADHD can make us feel like we're not really adults.
In today’s episode, we're going to be exploring those feelings of not being an adult and how that interacts with our ADHD.
Among Us
Imposter syndrome is shockingly common - I say shockingly common because when you're feeling it, it's hard to imagine anyone else feeling quite like you do - and yet almost everyone feels imposter syndrome to some extent.
Top 5 ADHD Tips
This week I’m delivering a bit of a shorter episode this week focusing on some of the strategies that I find are the most important for managing my ADHD. This is definitely not a definitive list and as for the order of things... well I moved things around a number of times trying to decide what the best order would be and honestly I'm not sure there really is an order or truly a most important thing.
Give Yourself Some Slack: Self-Compassion (Part 2)
Self-compassion is a key part of cutting ourselves some slack - it's the combination of empathy and action. We're doing the things that'll let us put ourselves at the front of the line when it comes to self-care. But self-compassion isn't easy.
Give Yourself Some Slack: Self-Compassion (Part 1)
Self-compassion can help with ADHD because it can help us realize that our self-image and self-doubts are not hardwired - we can change and we don't have to beat ourselves up to make that change happen.
Give Yourself Some Slack: Perfectly Imperfect
In this episode, we're going to be exploring the idea of how perfection acts as a coping mechanism - and why that's not a great thing. We'll also be looking at some of the different types of perfectionism and then we'll be exploring some of the ways that we can start to work on conquering our own perfectionism.
When To Quit
The first thing we've got to understand is that when we ask, when should I quit? We're also asking, when should I persevere? And they often serve as the same answer - I should quit when it doesn't make sense to keep going. I keep going when it doesn't make sense to quit. Unfortunately is really easy to get those messages mixed up and with ADHD we've all got a trail of unfinished projects and ideas that are weighing us down every time we need to make this decision again.
Dear ADHD
In this episode, I'm writing a letter to my ADHD. I'll be honest, I wasn't all that keen on writing a letter to my ADHD when I first heard about the exercise, but it was actually surprisingly refreshing to address that part of myself.
Working With Your ADHD
It's easy to get caught up in what neurotypicals do for productivity that we can forget that we're not neurotypical, we have ADHD. And when you've got ADHD sometimes you need to do things differently because our brains are wired differently.