ADHD Essentials

Today, we’re talking to Bruce Sabian, M.A., LMHC.  Bruce is the co-founder, owner, director, and clinical supervisor of Academy MetroWest in Natick, Massachusetts. The Academy MetroWest team runs weekly social skills groups, and Bruce, himself, provides individual counseling and executive functioning coaching services to children, adolescents, and young adults.  

In Today’s Episode, Bruce and I talk about how his usual hands-on, in person work at Academy Metro West has changed since things went virtual, and the ways he and his staff are supporting the kids they work with.  We discuss how reducing competition can make it easier for kids to receive feedback, the power of cooperative games and where to find them online, why virtual schooling has made things easier  for some kids by reducing variables, and the challenges of changing family dynamics.

• Learn more about Bruce and Academy MetroWest at http://academymetrowest.com.

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Today, we’re talking to Inger Colzie MSW, LSW of Alchemy Coaching and Counseling Inger is an ADHD coach, as well as an ADHD mom of an ADHD kid. She brings her 15 years of expertise as a psychotherapist to her work with individuals, families and organizations to help them experience deeper connection, community, and authentic communication. 

In Today’s Episode, Inger and I discuss ADHD and the African American experience.  We discuss the cultural challenges to mental health support for black Americans, wearing a mask of normalcy as an ADHD person, code switching, and Inger shares what it’s like to be a parent with ADHD of a child with ADHD.

• Find Inger at https://www.ingercolziecounseling.com

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Today, we’re talking to Richard Tedeschi.  Richard originated the concept of posttraumatic growth with his colleague Lawrence Calhoun during their years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. More recently, he has been applying the posttraumatic growth concept in the development of innovative programs for combat veterans and first responders. The success of which is leading to their implementation at a number of venues across the country. His new book about the growth experiences of military families is Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth (2020).

In Today’s Episode, Dr. Tedeschi talks to us about trauma, PTSD, and Post traumatic growth as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic.  We discuss how getting clear on our beliefs can help us more effectively navigate this crisis, the importance of taking action for our mental health - especially actions that help others, and how parents can help their kids better handle difficult and challenging times.

Find Dr. Teschi's books:

• Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth (2020)

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Today, we’re talking to Stephanie Letourneau.  Stephanie is a 3rd grade teacher, and a return guest, though it’s been a while!  She was on about two years ago, in the early days of the pod to talk about how she was adding mindfulness to her classroom curriculum. 

In Today’s Episode, we talk about distance learning from the teacher perspective, how her continued use of mindfulness in her virtual classroom is helping her students and their parents, and how the current COVID crisis is shining a light on inequities in our education system.

• Email your questions about mindfulness to Stepahie at [email protected]

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I met him at the International Conference on ADHD last year, and was struck by his passion and intelligence.  When he told me he worked at NASA, I knew I had to get him on the show.

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Today, we’re talking to Alicia.  Alicia is an ADHD mom of ADHD kids, and a member of the ADHD Essentials Facebook Community.  

In Today’s Episode, Alicia shares her story with us.  She talks about her initial misdiagnosis, and how things have changed since receiving a new diagnosis of ADHD.  She also shares how having ADHD has affected her finances, and the strategies she’s used to get them back on track.

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Today, we’re talking to Melissa Orlov.  Melissa is a marriage consultant, specializing in helping ADHD-affected couples rebalance their relationships. She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College and an award winning author of The ADHD Effect on Marriage and The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD.

In Today’s Episode, Melissa and I talk about ADHD in family relationships.  We discuss how status within the relationship affects ADHD marriages, why the parent-child dynamic doesn’t work, why it happens, and how to get out of it.  We also discuss Melissa’s three legged conceptual model for ADHD treatment, the power of verbal cues and silos, ADHD as a reward deficiency syndrome  - meaning punishment just isn’t an effective way to parent our kids, and why knowledge is power when it comes to ADHD.

• Learn more about Melissa's work at https://www.adhdmarriage.com 

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Today, we’re talking to my friend Alan Brown.  Alan is an entrepreneur, former marketing executive, and president of Crusher Solutions where he creates the ADD Crusher videos, tools, and Crusher TV.  He’s also created a guide called “Stop Making Your ADD Worse”, which can be found on www.addcrusher.com.

In Today’s Episode, Alan and I talk about taking care of our brains and ways to do it - how visual clutter impacts us, the importance of paying attention to what we are paying attention to, and why simple carbs, though tasty and comforting, are not a good plan.  We also talk tools we provide kids to manage their emotions.

• Learn more about Alan's work at www.addcrusher.com!

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Today's episode features Lollie Weeks of Fast Brain Coaching and Kyra Todd of Northern Virginia Coaching Solutions.  Lollie and Kyra joined me for an impromptu Q&A to help us better manage the challenges that COVID-19, learning and working from home are causing for families.  I hope you find it useful. 

• Learn more about Lollie at https://fastbraincoaching.com
  

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As promised, as normal episode.  :)

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Roxanne Jarrett.  Roxanne is a coach, educator, multi-disciplined artist, and mother with ADHD. Who believes that consistent creativity can be a powerful affirmation of our own unique contributions to the world, and evidence of our self-worth. Her mission is to help people build and maintain feelings of self-value through creative accomplishments. 

Today, Roxanne and I talk about the benefits of understanding the needs of the people we are caring for, why  we should push our kids in the directions of their passions (even when it’s hard), how short-term goals fuel our pursuit of long-term goals, why putting our adult ambitions on our kids is inappropriate, and the power of theater arts.

• Learn more about Roxanne and her work at www.swellhead.com or www.roxannejarrett.com.

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