See in ADHD

Thinking about how you think and paying attention to what you are paying attention to are just two of the tactics that ADHD Coach, Lynne Edris, and I talk about during our time together.

Lynne has been coaching for a decade now and she shares her insights into an industry, which is often misunderstood, about a condition, which has been, at times, equally as misunderstood.

The bottom line for her is that it's the most rewarding way she could spend her time. Witnessing the sense of hope that grows from acceptance and feeling heard and understood, is what fuels her passion, as she primarily works with clients from professional fields like education, medicine, and law.

LYNNE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Life's not about just crossing stuff off some to-do list."

How You Think

Lynne and I talk about a lot of aspects to coaching including how some people find themselves stuck and don't realize that they even can change the way they think or feel about a situation. How you think isn't as much about controlling your thoughts as they are directing them.

Listen in, as she shares her experience of transitioning from successful business woman to a stay-at-home mom and what were some of the challenges she overcame. After talking with Lynne, I feel like she and I share a lot of the same perspectives on challenges that ADHD can bring to how you think. I bet you walk away with food for thought!

~ Jennie

Links:

Lynne Edris

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Thinking about how you think and paying attention to what you are paying attention to are just two of the tactics that ADHD Coach, Lynne Edris, and I talk about during our time together.

Lynne has been coaching for a decade now and she shares her insights into an industry, which is often misunderstood, about a condition, which has been, at times, equally as misunderstood.

The bottom line for her is that it's the most rewarding way she could spend her time. Witnessing the sense of hope that grows from acceptance and feeling heard and understood, is what fuels her passion, as she primarily works with clients from professional fields like education, medicine, and law.

LYNNE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Life's not about just crossing stuff off some to-do list."

How You Think

Lynne and I talk about a lot of aspects to coaching including how some people find themselves stuck and don't realize that they even can change the way they think or feel about a situation. How you think isn't as much about controlling your thoughts as they are directing them.

Listen in, as she shares her experience of transitioning from successful business woman to a stay-at-home mom and what were some of the challenges she overcame. After talking with Lynne, I feel like she and I share a lot of the same perspectives on challenges that ADHD can bring to how you think. I bet you walk away with food for thought!

~ Jennie

Links:

Lynne Edris

Click to view: show page on Awesound

René Brooks knows what it's like to have a hard time saying no. A people pleaser by nature, she and I discuss strategies to help ADHD and overcommitting.

From agreeing to help a friend in a bind to taking on more and more jobs that involve crochet, René finds it difficult to tell someone that she just has no time and cannot help out right now.

What happens is that she commits to projects that even she isn't sure she'll really be able to do, but saying no just doesn't feel right. After all, she does truly want to help.

RENE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Saying yes to everybody...that's a big fault of mine."

ADHD & Overcommitting

René and I talk about why it's so difficult for her to say no and come up with three strategies that could be used in order to avoid the negative spiral that starts by never saying no.

~ Jennie

Links:

Kaleidoscope Society

René Brooks on Facebook

Black Girl Lost Keys

blackgirllostkeys.com

Awesound (enter friend code: ADHD Coach)

Click to view: show page on Awesound

René Brooks knows what it's like to have a hard time saying no. A people pleaser by nature, she and I discuss strategies to help ADHD and overcommitting.

From agreeing to help a friend in a bind to taking on more and more jobs that involve crochet, René finds it difficult to tell someone that she just has no time and cannot help out right now.

What happens is that she commits to projects that even she isn't sure she'll really be able to do, but saying no just doesn't feel right. After all, she does truly want to help.

RENE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Saying yes to everybody...that's a big fault of mine."

ADHD & Overcommitting

René and I talk about why it's so difficult for her to say no and come up with three strategies that could be used in order to avoid the negative spiral that starts by never saying no.

~ Jennie

Links:

Kaleidoscope Society

René Brooks on Facebook

Black Girl Lost Keys

blackgirllostkeys.com

Awesound (enter friend code: ADHD Coach)

Click to view: show page on Awesound

René Brooks knows what it's like to have a hard time saying no. A people pleaser by nature, she and I discuss strategies to help ADHD and overcommitting.

From agreeing to help a friend in a bind to taking on more and more jobs that involve crochet, René finds it difficult to tell someone that she just has no time and cannot help out right now.

What happens is that she commits to projects that even she isn't sure she'll really be able to do, but saying no just doesn't feel right. After all, she does truly want to help.

RENE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Saying yes to everybody...that's a big fault of mine."

ADHD & Overcommitting

René and I talk about why it's so difficult for her to say no and come up with three strategies that could be used in order to avoid the negative spiral that starts by never saying no.

~ Jennie

Links:

Kaleidoscope Society

René Brooks on Facebook

Black Girl Lost Keys

blackgirllostkeys.com

Awesound (enter friend code: ADHD Coach)

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Sean Wallace has experienced life with ADHD medication and life without it. With the prospect of going back to school, at 23, he decided he really needed the help, and so was re-diagnosed as an adult.

What surprised him was that on the proper dose, all of the reasons he hated ADHD medication as a child disappeared.

He wants others to know of his experience in case it sounds like theirs. Sometimes, second chances can bring surprising results.

SEAN'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"When you're not taking medicine, it's not that it's not manageable but it makes things harder than they really have to be."

ADHD Medication Helps

Sean Wallace read an article of mine, The Process of ADHD. I had shared it on my FB page. His response was so powerful I asked him to come on the show and share it with you. Here is an excerpt from his original post:

"I was diagnosed ADHD the summer before 6th grade. I was prescribed Adderall and I hated taking it, I never ate, my mouth would always be dry, I couldn't sleep and It made it hard to make friends because I was so quite all the time (usually I would be talking up a storm and getting in trouble) I would trick the nurse at school and pretend to take it because I didn't like it that much. The positive side to that was I would go from straight F's to straight A's in a matter of weeks, I would clean my house, be good, I never procrastinated, I was nicer. It worked miracles. Come to find out I was just taking way to high of a dosage..."

~ Jennie

Links:

Sean Wallace

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Sean Wallace has experienced life with ADHD medication and life without it. With the prospect of going back to school, at 23, he decided he really needed the help, and so was re-diagnosed as an adult.

What surprised him was that on the proper dose, all of the reasons he hated ADHD medication as a child disappeared.

He wants others to know of his experience in case it sounds like theirs. Sometimes, second chances can bring surprising results.

SEAN'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"When you're not taking medicine, it's not that it's not manageable but it makes things harder than they really have to be."

ADHD Medication Helps

Sean Wallace read an article of mine, The Process of ADHD. I had shared it on my FB page. His response was so powerful I asked him to come on the show and share it with you. Here is an excerpt from his original post:

"I was diagnosed ADHD the summer before 6th grade. I was prescribed Adderall and I hated taking it, I never ate, my mouth would always be dry, I couldn't sleep and It made it hard to make friends because I was so quite all the time (usually I would be talking up a storm and getting in trouble) I would trick the nurse at school and pretend to take it because I didn't like it that much. The positive side to that was I would go from straight F's to straight A's in a matter of weeks, I would clean my house, be good, I never procrastinated, I was nicer. It worked miracles. Come to find out I was just taking way to high of a dosage..."

~ Jennie

Links:

Sean Wallace

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Diagnosed with ADHD as a child, Sean Wallace has experienced life with ADHD medication and life without it. With the prospect of going back to school, at 23, he decided he really needed the help, and so was re-diagnosed as an adult.

What surprised him was that on the proper dose, all of the reasons he hated ADHD medication as a child disappeared.

He wants others to know of his experience in case it sounds like theirs. Sometimes, second chances can bring surprising results.

SEAN'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"When you're not taking medicine, it's not that it's not manageable but it makes things harder than they really have to be."

ADHD Medication Helps

Sean Wallace read an article of mine, The Process of ADHD. I had shared it on my FB page. His response was so powerful I asked him to come on the show and share it with you. Here is an excerpt from his original post:

"I was diagnosed ADHD the summer before 6th grade. I was prescribed Adderall and I hated taking it, I never ate, my mouth would always be dry, I couldn't sleep and It made it hard to make friends because I was so quite all the time (usually I would be talking up a storm and getting in trouble) I would trick the nurse at school and pretend to take it because I didn't like it that much. The positive side to that was I would go from straight F's to straight A's in a matter of weeks, I would clean my house, be good, I never procrastinated, I was nicer. It worked miracles. Come to find out I was just taking way to high of a dosage..."

~ Jennie

Links:

Sean Wallace

Click to view: show page on Awesound

No matter how many people you talk to, there's always another side to ADHD to explore, because each individual is unique. Larry Goodman, as no exception, is his own man. He knows what he's good at and what he's bad at, and he thinks he's figured out why.

He and I talk about how he's made a living in the past and his plans for the future. We also talk about his past relationships and how he plans to make future ones better.

Interestingly, these two subjects converge. So, listen in and discover how.

LARRY'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"If you love somebody ... you love them for who they are and who they're not."

Another Side to ADHD

For all the reasons Larry enjoys life and his passion projects, there's also another side, which he shares with us. It's the side that makes life frustrating, makes people annoying, and makes it difficult to feel understood. Advanced ADD, as he calls it, can make life hard.

I appreciated Larry's insights into what another side to ADHD is, the difficult side. I also appreciate his willingness to be open about his feelings, which I know so many share.

~ Jennie

Links:

Larry Goodman

Click to view: show page on Awesound

No matter how many people you talk to, there's always another side to ADHD to explore, because each individual is unique. Larry Goodman, as no exception, is his own man. He knows what he's good at and what he's bad at, and he thinks he's figured out why.

He and I talk about how he's made a living in the past and his plans for the future. We also talk about his past relationships and how he plans to make future ones better.

Interestingly, these two subjects converge. So, listen in and discover how.

LARRY'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"If you love somebody ... you love them for who they are and who they're not."

Another Side to ADHD

For all the reasons Larry enjoys life and his passion projects, there's also another side, which he shares with us. It's the side that makes life frustrating, makes people annoying, and makes it difficult to feel understood. Advanced ADD, as he calls it, can make life hard.

I appreciated Larry's insights into what another side to ADHD is, the difficult side. I also appreciate his willingness to be open about his feelings, which I know so many share.

~ Jennie

Links:

Larry Goodman

Click to view: show page on Awesound