Living Beyond ADHD

If you could get yourself to focus when and where you need to AND could shift your state or feelings so you feel like doing things you've planned, when it's time to take action, would having those skills change your life?  If you're like other adults I've asked over the years, the answer is a resounding yes.  But how?

You are where your attention is.  What you focus on grows.  You are the meaning maker in your life.  Your feelings are a direct result of your thinking.  You create your own reality; we all do. 

So…are you ready to harness your focus before your dreams gently slip through your fingers or you run out of steam and just quit?  I hope so.

Today I'm talking about one aspect of embracing your Superpower and becoming the visionary of your life.  That's right - developing your Foresight and Conscious Focusing so you can connect with your ideas about how things can be different for you; how they can actually improve.       

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

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I pursued an ADHD diagnosis with many professionals, only to be refused an assessment with two and granted an assessment with one who decided there was nothing significantly amiss with me – just a little anxiety. Seriously?!  The two that turned me away said it would be a waste of time (whose time?) to assess me and the one that did, asked questions and did testing that would never have confirmed a diagnosis because they weren't properly trained to assess me as an adult woman.  It was very discouraging.

Peri-menopause was the great equalizer.  When my brain function went offline, all the skills and strategies I had successfully used prior to that hormonal shift stopped working for me.  I had developed my EF skills well enough to get my education and successfully serve clients in my private practice, however, my skills weren't developed in the methodical manner I developed them after "my cognitive fall."  What a gift that time in my life was for me, and what was to transpire as a result.

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

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Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

You may not know if being free of negative self-talk is going to be right for you.  You may not know if you're going to be SO happy with your new-found freedom that you'll have to email me and tell me about it.  You may not know if this transformation is going to be really fun and exciting. 

And, if it's not as wonderful as others have experienced and you want your previous negative self-talk life back, you can re-create that life again – although you may want to give your new-found freedom a little time before you decide.

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

So many of us grew up without the opportunity to become the person we want to be.  Whether our homes were filled with trauma or addictions or those who raised us were just missing the essential executive function skills to be able to pass them on to us, we didn't get them.  And so, it goes.  Generation after generation of kids are growing up with under-developed executive function skills; the very life skills that are necessary for successful "adulting."

Some of you believe it's too late for you to develop these skills or that it will take too long.  The fact is, it's never too late and in our 7-month journey together you will make significant changes – from the inside out - that will change your life.  To me, that's a relatively short period of time considering the lifetime many of us have spent without these skills and the difference that having them makes.

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

There's a lot of trauma that occurs as a result of not knowing what the source of our challenges are. And then so many mixed feelings when and if we get diagnosed, everything from a huge sense of relief, and having an explanation for entire life experiences, to a deep sadness over the missed opportunities. And we're left wondering what could have happened if we had known sooner? 

What if the bigger issue with all the problems that we adults with or without ADHD have is because of the not knowing - the lack of a diagnosis and all the trauma that results from living with the unknown, or the unnamed explanation?

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

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Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

Forgiveness is a gift.  We can give this gift at any time - to ourselves or to others.  It's our "get out of jail" gift card – releasing each of us from a prison of our own making.  When we refuse to forgive, and choose to hold onto mistakes and use them against ourselves or others, we are setting ourselves up for a miserable life.  How many times do we need to relive the pain of the past before we've experienced enough pain or misery?

To forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward ourselves or to others for a mistake or harm caused.  To forgive doesn't mean I forget or condone; it simply means that I stop poisoning myself with my past mistakes or the harms done to me by others.  And, as I said in the previous episode, "for things to change, you have to change."  I had to learn how to forgive, let go and move on.  You also have to learn how to forgive, let go and move on.  If not, you could stay stuck forever.

In this episode Dr B talks about:

• What is the point in forgiving myself, the damage is already done?
• What's the point in apologizing to others for the mistakes I've made in the past; they continue to bring up my past mistakes and punish me with them.
• Forgiving myself or others is like me saying that what happened was okay, and it's not okay.
• The importance of celebrating your wins
• Enrollment opens March 7th for the ADDventures in Achievement Foundational Skills program 

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources.
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

Jim Rohn said - "For things to change, you have to change."

It seems very obvious when you think about it, for things to change, you have to change. I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately. And it's taken on a much deeper meaning for me, because he didn't say, for things to change, you have to change things. What he said is for things to change, you have to change. I understand now that means that I have to change in whatever ways are necessary for things to change for me, whatever those things are; and if I don't change, which is an inside job, then things in the outside world are not going to change for me. So, for things to change, you have to change.

In this episode Dr B talks about:

• Common limiting beliefs
• Counter-examples to limiting beliefs
• Upgrading your identity or sense of self
• The importance of celebrating your wins
• Enrollment opening in March for the ADDventures in Achievement Foundational Skills program 

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

Feeling overwhelmed isn't automatically a positive or a negative experience; it depends on the emotion and on the meaning you give to the emotion you're feeling.  You could be overwhelmed with gratitude and self-love or overwhelmed with grief and shame.

The meaning I give overwhelmed is that it implies "too much" or "more than someone can comfortably handle."  Is that you?

Every time I imagine what life is like WITHOUT well-developed executive function skills before the pandemic, and then imagine it during this pandemic, the impact just 10x'd itself in terms of the negative overwhelm and impact that it is having on your lives.  And so many of you are telling me exactly that.

The good news?

Executive Function skills can be learned, no matter what age you are.  No matter where you are located in the world.  All it takes is the right training, strategies and support. 

In this episode Dr B talks about:

• What it takes to stay out of overwhelming feelings
• Strategies for shifting your feelings
• The importance of celebrating your wins
• Enrollment opening in January for the ADDventures in Achievement Foundational Skills 
• Free Executive Function Training Series coming very soon

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

Being an Achiever isn't just about developing your EF Skills; you also need to become the person who is the Achiever, instead of thinking of yourself as the person who is the ADDer.  Saying "I am an Achiever" is the first step to taking on an empowering new Identity, just as saying "I am an ADDer, is a step that reinforces keeping the same old disempowering Identity.    

Are you telling yourself stories or reliving your past failed attempts and making that your reality today?  You're probably not doing this consciously, however, many of us base our current reality on possibilities of what you've done in the past.  Statements like, "this is just how I am" or "this doesn't feel like me" or "I can't see myself living that way" are common.  

The good news?

Executive Function skills can be learned, no matter what age you are.  No matter where you are located in the world.  All it takes is the right training, strategies and support. 

In this episode Dr B talks about:

• What can happen when ADHD and under-developed executive function skills are lumped together for diagnosis and treatment
• Giving a new meaning to ADHD and under-developed executive function skills
• The importance of celebrating your wins
• Enrollment opening now for the January 2021 ADDventures in Achievement Foundational Skills program

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources
• Download the transcript for this episode.

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!

According to government statistics, last updated in 2018, there are a lot of unhappy people that are suffering in the world.  In the U.S. alone:

• 32 million people suffer from anxiety
• 17 million suffer from depression
• Around 12 million suffer from PTSD

And, according to Forbes magazine, the Self-Help industry generates over $11 billion annually. What I find interesting is that many of the self-help books and videos that get purchased sit on the shelf collecting dust. So for today's podcast, I wanted to explore this phenomenon and help you get curious about what does work and why.  How much time do we have?  Not much.  So let's get to it.

And, if my podcast show is the first time you've been hearing about the difference between ADHD and executive function skills, you're not alone.  If you're an adult who received a diagnosis of adult ADHD, executive function skills should also have been assessed and discussed with you, in my humble opinion.  The odds of having under-developed executive function skills along with ADHD are very high; in fact, almost a given that you will.  It's also highly probable that you will have under-developed executive function skills if you've lived with chronic depression, chronic anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illness.

In this episode Dr B talks about:

• How shelf-help can do more harm than good
• The kind of help we need to really advance and heal
• The importance of celebrating your wins
• Open enrollment NOW for the ADDventures in Achievement program until Thursday, July 2, 2020!!

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

Episode Resources:

• Put yourself on the informational Waitlist for the ADDventures In Achievement Foundational Skills Program, so that you receive all the amazing emails we've written to both educate you about Executive Function skills as well as the details of the program; there is absolutely no obligation by being on the Waitlist.  You'll thank yourself for getting informed.

 

• Learn more about our newest program, Living Beyond ADHD 2.0 Training and Coaching Mini-Series.

 

• Free Video and e-Book - Many Mental Health Providers & ADHD
• 13 EF Skills
• Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps
• Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more
• Follow me on Instagram and enjoy relevant resources

To Help The Show:

Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others! 

Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.  

Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together! We can do this!