ADHD Focus with David Pomeroy, MD

Why do we ADHDers (which includes myself) toss one task aside and choose to do another? Why are some of us usually arriving late to meetings, dates, dinner at home? What we call Procrastination and Poor Time Management may actually have foundations in a different aspect of ADHD, Self-awareness. The strategies for changing those symptoms/habits is different than other proposed solutions when seen through the lens of Self-awareness. 

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My guest today is Jeff Copper, an ADHD Coach certified by both the International Coaching Federation and the Professional Association of ADHD Coaches. You can catch his programs on Attention Talk Radio and Attention Talk Video, as well as at www.digcoaching.com. Jeff founded his Dig Coaching Practice in 2007 to help clients with ADHD dig through the usual frames of reference for symptoms down to the foundational issues. When his clients have what Jeff terms the “Aha !” moment, they have gained a different perspective on the problem, which then enables them to approach it from a different angle.

Join us as we examine how you can make it easier to resume “the flow“of the thought process of doing one task when it has been interrupted by –  a noise/person with question/thoughts triggered by the details of the task/thoughts wandering to the weekend. Listen, and learn! 

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What is Asperger’s Syndrome anyway? Is it like autism? Can someone have ADHD and Asperger’s? How is that determined? In this show Thomas Brown PhD and I discuss the answers to these questions and more. Dr. Brown is one of the pre-eminent clinicians and authorities in the field of ADHD and associated disorders, I am privileged to have him as my guest today. Dr. Brown has published 30 scientific journal articles and written seven books on ADHD over his career as a clinical psychologist specializing in the field of ADHD and co-occurring disorders. After serving on the clinical faculty of Yale Medical School for 25 years he recently relocated to Manhattan Beach, California, to open the Brown Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders. His latest book is ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome , which is the subject of our conversation today.  Dr. Brown can be reached at: BrownADHDclinic.com.

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Outside the Box, Dr. Brown’s fifth book, is a comprehensive explanation of ADHD and how it intersects with its co-occurring disorders – Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Dysregulation, and time blindness to name a few. The latter two are not separate disorders but IMO they are the most impairing qualities of ADHD.  Read, listen, and learn! 

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“I have to help my 9th grader, she can’t get organized and her grades are way down.” “Why does it take you so long to get your homework done?” “What can I do to help?”

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Do any of these questions sound familiar? Today my guest is Michelle Raz, a board-certified ADHD coach, her specialty is academic coaching. We will be exploring how to answer the above questions and how an executive function coach may be more valuable than tutoring or therapy.

Michelle has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the realms of academic coaching and executive function development. She has dedicated her career to helping teenagers and young adults strengthen their executive function skills. She co-founded with Sonia Merritt the company Thrivister, committed to providing comprehensive and accessible executive function support for students diagnosed with ADHD and other learning differences. Thrivister does this by blending academic accountability and executive function coaching practices. Join us as we discuss the nature of academic coaching and its benefits for students and parents. Listen and learn!

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Welcome to the inaugural Video production of ADHD Focus, available on YouTube at ADHD Focus Kristin Swanson 32323 

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And coming soon to Roku and Firestick!  The audio podcast of course remains available on most podcast channels. 

Do you know your ADHD-related strengths? So many of the resources for ADHDers talk about strategies to address weaknesses in our ADHD function, “impairments” to work on, how to get ahead of our deficits. But we have strengths too, ways that our brains work which neurotypicals do not have.  

Are you often frozen in perfectionism and/or shame which lead to one of the forms of procrastination? (*raises his hand…me*) 

Can you recognize instances when boundaries on “want to” get in the way of “have to” and “need to” tasks/activities? 

My guest today is Kristin Swanson, coach and consultant, expert in helping her clients how to get their “someday when I…” projects done. As a breast cancer survivor, Kristin learned the importance of getting out of one’s own way and how to stop waiting until “someday” to make a unique impact. Realizing deeply that “you only live once,” she has gained perspective, tools and strategies to overcome the illusions which fear instills in us.  

Kristin earned a BA degree in business, received Co-Active Coaches Institute training, and has two decades of business leadership, strategy & operations experience.  Learn more at https://www.kristinswansonconsulting.com.  Download Kristin’s free Make it Happen Planner here. 

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Why do people with ADHD need boundaries? Why do we typically have poor boundaries? Tamara Rosier joins us for a second time for an enlightening discussion about boundaries. Tamara Rosier, Phd is the Founder of the ADHD Center of Western Michigan and author of ‘Your Brain’s no Broken”. 

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Tamara’s book “Your Brain’s Not Broken” explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You’ll finally understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. It is core ADHD issue stuff!  Listen and learn! 

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“I can’t be late for work again! Where are my keys?”  “Mom, where are my baseball shoes?” “It’s past midnight again, and I have that 7am meeting”. Do any of these sound familiar? Getting up earlier to get to work on time won’t work; setting a routine, a habit of where you put the keys when you get home will work.

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Value your time more than anything else. More than your income, more than your rank in your profession, more than anything. That widens your perspective and can provide the motivation to change your daily system, your routines and habits.

My guest today is Nic McLaughlin, ADHD and Executive Function coach. He started MasterADHDNow to help improve the lives of ADHDers and others struggling with ASDFAKP. Over 1000 clients have found his methods enabled them to get more done more efficiently, saving the time and not wasting energy in the amount of effort it took to get through a day at work or a day at home.

MasterADHDnow.com, Nic’s website, has free outlines and guides to habit setting, banishing procrastination and more. Join us, listen and learn!

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Email, the Great Time Sink! As in your precious time goes down the drain…. It is almost impossible to resist jumping right into email first thing and pretty soon you are thinking “I am being productive! I am getting things done!”  Well, yes…you are diverting your attention/energy from the tasks you had decided were important to do today…one of the finely honed skills of an ADHDer. Looking at the Inbox number drains energy right then and there! Alan Brown and I share tips on how to manage your Inbox and how to conserve your daily energy allotment. Listen and Learn!

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Alan Brown, founder of and the energy behind CrusherTV and ADD Crusher, is my guest today. Alan is an ADHD/productivity coach, he has ADHD, he knows ADHD and he has come up with many solutions to classic ADHD challenges. A featured speaker at conferences in the U.S. and abroad including TEDx, he’s the author of Zen and the Art of Productivity. Get his free eBook, “5 Things You’re Doing Every Day that Make Your ADHD Worse” at www.ADDCrusher.com. CrusherTV is a video library designed to “unleash the power of your unique brain” so you can accomplish more in less time with less drama.

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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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