ADHD Essentials

Today, we’re talking to Eddie Martucci.  Eddie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Akili Interactive, a digital medicine company.  That prescription video game for treating ADHD that you’ve been hearing about?  That’s the work of Eddie and Akili.

In Today’s Episode, we talk about Endeavor RX, the aforementioned prescription video game.  We discuss how it came about, the thinking that went into it, how it’s different from other video games, what it does, and doesn’t do, whether it works for adults, and whether or not it can be used by kids with video game addiction.

• Learn about Eddie and his team at Akili at https://www.akiliinteractive.com/people 

• Want proof that EndeavorRX is the real deal?  Here's a link to an FDA article about it: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-permits-marketing-first-game-based-digital-therapeutic-improve-attention-function-children-adhd

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, it's just me.  We're revisiting perfectionism, because the last episode clearly resonated with a lot of you, and I got a good amount of feedback and questions about it.  

We're talking about the roles that inconsistency, judging ourselves based on our best performance, and asynchronous development play in the perfectionism of folks with ADHD, as well as ways to address it!

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, we’re talking to my friend, Denise Roadman.  Denise is a middle school wellness teacher who helps her students better manage their stress, and cut out their perfectionism. 

In Today’s Episode, Denise and I discuss the causes, and detrimental effects of perfectionism (and ways to reduce it), stress management techniques, why you should train your mind like a horse, and the effects of social media on our kids and ourselves.

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, we’re talking to Juliana Chen and Tai Katzenstein. 

Juliana is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH), and a part-time clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. 

Tai is also a clinical psychologist at Newton Wellesley Hospital (NWH), and the former Director of Certification at Think:Kids at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  Together, they serve as co-directors of The Resilience Project Parents Program, an innovative community outreach program based out of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. 

In Today’s Episode, Tai, Julianna and I discuss ways to develop the skill of resilience, how to ask our kids better questions, the importance of unconditional love, the challenges of checking-in, and Parental Self-care.

Find the Resilience Project on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NWHResilienceProject/

 Tai and Juliana's Resilient Parenting blog at Psychology Today:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/resilient-parenting/202006/managing-parent-anxiety-in-the-age-covid-19

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, we’re talking to Seth Perler. In fact, this episode was also shared on Seth’s YouTube vlog!  Seth is an executive function and 2e coach who works tirelessly to help outside-the-box kids succeed.

In Today’s Episode, Seth and I discuss trauma, self-compassion, building our kids’  Executive Function skills during the summer, and the opportunity cost of screen time.

• Learn about Seth at https://sethperler.com

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, we’re talking to Joyce Kubik and Robin Nordmeyer.  Joyce and Robin are ADHD coaches who have created a program to help ADHD/nonADHD couples better manage their relationships.

In Today’s Episode, Joyce, Robin and I discuss managing blame, excuses, and defensiveness in relationships, the importance of being able to slow down & pause, improving our communication, and how couples can support each other.

• Learn about Robin and Joyce’s upcoming Marriage Uncomplicated Workshop:  https://centerforlivingwellwithadhd.org/marriage-uncomplicated---couples-study.html

• Email Robin: [email protected]

• Email Joyce: [email protected]

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

Today, we’re talking to Sarah Chayette.  Sarah is a pediatric neurologist, and an expert in both ADHD and Autism.  She is the co-author of two books on ADHD, and her blog 1-2-3 ADHD is featured in Psychology Today.

In Today’s Episode, Sarah and I discuss ADHD and the nervous system.  And then shift into the intersection of ADHD and Autism.  We talk about their similarities and differences, the challenges with diagnosis, why kids with ADHD and autism might both miss social cues, but miss them for different reasons, the roles anxiety and sensory challenges play in both disorders, and why symptoms matter more than diagnosis.

• Learn more about Sarah and her work at https://sarahcheyette.com

ADHD Essentials Links:  

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization

• ADHD reWired

In this week's episode, I share ideas for managing the Summer of 2020 - one that, for many of us, is likely to be mostly at home, for both us and our kids.

I talk about the importance of prioritizing and communicating with our kids, helping the set goals for the summer,  and then planning the summer around the things they want to learn, make and do.  I also break summer ideas down into 7 categories, and share how I will be addressing each to get your brains going!  

Those categories are:  

Today, we’re talking to Romanza McAllister.  is a Psychotherapist and ADHD Coach in Brooklyn NY.  She works with Adult who have ADHD.  Her work centers on racial identity, codependency, and acceptance of the ADHD diagnosis. She serves on the board of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, and leads their African American /Black Diaspora + ADHD Virtual Peer Support Group. 

In Today’s Episode, Romanza shares with us the challenges that black Americans who have ADHD face in our culture.  We discuss the ways COVID19 and civil unrest are affecting her daily life in Brooklyn, New York, the reality of police interactions for Black Americans and how having ADHD affects them, shared trauma, nonviolent ways to resist systemic racism, and who gets to have ADHD.

This episode was challenging for me as an interviewer.  My first question is awful.  It framed things well enough, but I should have phrased it better.  Also, I if I could do it again, I would talk less and listen more. 

I imagine this episode may be challenging for some listeners of this show.  It’s not the first time we’ve talked about race and racism ion this show, but I’ve never covered it when things were as charged as they are right now, following the death of George Floyd. I hope you find meaning in it.

• Learn more about Romanza and her work at http://mcallisterpsychotherapy.com/ 

• Catch 22: ADHD, Work, and the "Black Tax"

Today, we’re talking to Chandler Creedon.  Chandler is a retired school psychologist, a former professor of mine, and a returning guest! 

In Today’s Episode, Chandler and I talk about teaching our kids at home, using uniforms to set roles, creating vs. consuming, and being emotional scientists.

• ADHD reWired

• Contact Brendan about booking a workshop for your organization