In this part II of the discussion begun last week with Elaine Taylor-Klaus, author of Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, we move on to parent coaching, helping your child learn the skills they will need to manage their time, attention, and emotions.  The faulty neural networks in the brain in the centers for executive functions lead to these primary impairments of ADHD. The good news is that you can coach them to be their own CEO, doing so as a team, over the years from pre-school through High School. Elaine’s book takes you through all of the steps of how to do it. For now, Listen and learn!

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Have you been asking yourself these questions: “The treatments we have been doing help but it’s still a struggle every day, is it this hard for all parents?” “We think there is more going on than just ADHD (or) Anxiety (or) Autism Spectrum issues, where can we find help to figure that out?” “I know the doctor is trying hard but something is missing.” Have these thoughts occurred to you about your child? You are not alone. As many as 80% (or more) of people with ADHD have another condition which impairs the lives of their parents/siblings/co-workers (or all of them) and of course their own experiences in navigating the demands and stresses of reaching adulthood. 

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My guest today is Elaine Taylor-Klaus, author, educator, Master coach, and parent in a family of 5 ADHD++ people (including herself). Born out of her frustration, curiosity and determination she co-founded IMPACTparents in 2011, providing parent coaching using an online group approach. This has since expanded to many educational and coaching programs for parents of complex kids. Check them out at www.IMPACTparents.com . Her latest book, The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, outlines in detail the steps parents can take as they guide their child(ren) to self-management by the end of their teen years, regardless of how many “official” diagnoses they have. It is a superb resource, as are the parent coaching programs presented by IMPACTparents**.

Our discussion starts with the challenges of identifying girls with the Inattentive type of ADHD who are also on the Autism Spectrum, then branches into the areas of behavioral clues parents can identify which suggest that their child has more than just one thing going on, that it’s not just Anxiety, or ADHD, or incompetent kid, or intelligent but can’t fit in. We explore how parents can educate themselves in this area and also how they can offer information to clinicians who for many reasons have not diagnosed every condition present. There are no simple answers. You can learn what questions to ask and where to get help in parenting your child. Listen and learn! 

**Please note:  I do not receive any money from IMPACTparents in connection with mentioning the program on ADHD Focus.   Dr. Pomeroy

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This is Dr. David Pomeroy, your host of ADHD Focus, the podcast with the goal of exploding the myth-information about ADHD out there. Welcome back to round 2 of my discussion with Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach and creator of DigCoaching, about the basic elements of coping with ADHD which you may be missing. His podcast is available on attentiontalkradio, his website is www.digcoaching.com. Awareness is the key, not only becoming aware of the elements themselves but also of how you may be ignoring them and not even aware of it. We all have many choices of where we can direct our attention. Don’t let it be directed by forces outside yourself, don’t surrender your choices. Listen and learn! 

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How are you sabotaging yourself in dealing with ADHD?  And you are, all of us with ADHD are doing it. Maybe you are working on organization, time management, getting things done. BUT if those are the only strategies you are using to deal with your ADHD you are missing the essential basics, the foundation which makes the strategies work.  

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My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach extraordinaire, host of the podcast ASDF on attentiontalkradio, blogger, the mind and energy behind DigCoaching.  We discuss how you can break these habits which are holding you back, developing awareness of your choices about sleep, about diet, about intentional physical activity (aka exercise), your emotions, how you spend your time, about your life. We do not have to surrender our choices to outside influences nor to our past.  Listen and learn!

Jeff has a different perspective on coaching, learn about his coaching practice  DIG Coaching  on his website digcoaching.com and his ideas on his podcast on attentiontalkradio.

[Jeff and I give massive credit to Alan Brown, the force behind Crusher TV, for the initial material on this topic which he presented years ago. Alan’s podcast detailing the brain hacks for “Top Ten things you are doing wrong for ADHD” is http://tobtr.com/6809403 ] 

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What can you be doing now to enable you to live into the vision you have for your future? 

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Yeah, I know. “Future? I have a tough time keeping me in line with tomorrow much less years away.” “Future? I’ll deal with it when I get there.  And don’t you DARE say the word “plan”! That’s a dirty word!” 

Guess what? Even though you may not want to admit it, you do have at least a nebulous vision of what you would like to be doing 5,10,30 years from now – depending on whether you are 60, 50 or 30 years of age (or are 65 and think of yourself as 30 years of age!). How are you gonna get there? 

My guest is David DeWitt, a registered financial planner who resisted his ADHD diagnosis from High School until his “ADHD Awakening” in 2021 . He has since turned his life direction into helping ADHDers like you and I tackle the Mt. Everest of money management, planning for the future. Check out his podcast ADHD Money Talk and his website adhdmoneytalk.com.  Listen and learn! 

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“I am just not motivated. Maybe my meds need to be adjusted.” “I do many things every day but not the ones I know I need to do”. “Why can’t I get going on school work/that big project/my taxes?” Motivation, energy to get started and then actually starting, is a BIG issue in ADHD. My guest today is Dr. Tamara Rosier, an ADHD Coach and founder of the ADD Center of Western Michigan. 

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Her book Your Brain’s Not Broken explores the connection emotions have with ADHD, including how our emotions sabotage motivation. We discuss the 6 Murderers of Motivation and how to deal with them. It is core ADHD issue stuff!  Listen and learn! 

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Why do people pick at their skin, pull out their hair, pop zits for fun? Is it part of ADHD? Can it become a part of someone’s ADHD? Can it be from ADHD medications?  Answers are in this show! 

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My guest is Roberto Olivardia, a psychologist in private practice in Lexington MA and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and an expert in many of the conditions which accompany ADHD. Skin-picking, nose-picking, scab-pulling, pulling hairs out – all variations on the same thing: there exists a compulsion to do it and a feeling of relief after doing it.

Many aspects of the way the ADHD brain processes sensations and rewards make these behaviors easy for us to start unconsciously then they take on a life of their own. How does one stop the habit?  Listen up, the solutions are also in the show! Listen, and learn!

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Join Dr. David Pomeroy for the second show about life before and life after the diagnosis of ADHD and starting treatment, the stories of 2 people whose lives turned around . In the previous show you heard how Alyxx went from dissatisfaction with their job yet thinking they could not do anything else to creating a therapy practice and managing it as well as their personal life with great success. 

In this show we hear from Aron, a”life failure by age 32″ who had lost 7 jobs, was divorced and broke, a man transformed by treatment of his ADHD into an ADHD Coach, frequent webinar host and guest, change management consultant, and founder of hiddenadd.com. Listen and learn! 

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What is it like going from struggling but not knowing why to discovering why so much of your life didn’t go well to success in so many ways? If you have ADHD and know it, many of these shows will be familiar. If you think you may have ADHD and the journeys of the 2 people presented in the next 2 shows sound familiar, all too familiar, see an expert for an evaluation. Starting treatment for your ADHD will (with high probability, like 90%) change your life. 

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This is the first of two shows about two people and their lives before and after their ADHD diagnosis and treatment. One is an ADHD Coach and man with a passion for helping everyone (yes even neurotypicals) understand ADHD  and those with ADHD to succeed in life. The other is a patient of mine, a woman whose life turned around when she decided to treat her ADHD, a diagnosis made when she was a child but whose parents “did not want me to take speed”. (myth often held by neurotypicals, prescription stimulants are like street drugs and will ruin your life. WRONG.)

Join me in getting an inside look at how 2 lives changed with diagnosis, treatment, and acceptance of the challenges of having ADHD. The first show features my patient Alyxx (they/them). How are they meeting those challenges  now?  Listen and learn! 

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This is the final installment of my series with Elaine Taylor-Klaus on raising complex kids (aren’t they all? Yes) especially those with ADHD, Anxiety and More (and sometimes both of those and others).

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Our discussion continues on the 4 Phases of parenting roles – Director, Collaborator, Supporter and Advisor/Champion – as they apply to children at the different stages of their emotional, social and academic development. If you missed any of the previous 3 shows you can catch up with them here or at targetingadhd.com. Listen and Learn!

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