2208: Living with ADHD • ADHD Stories From Our Listeners - Part Two
Our series continues with stories from parents, writers, and engineers, each living and learning through their experience with ADHD.
2207: Living with ADHD • You can have struggles and still have success with Dr. Kalaki Clarke
Dr. Kalaki Clarke joins us to talk about her journey with ADHD to becoming a physician, her work as an advocate for ADHDers everywhere, and her side gig as an award-winning in-car singer!
2206: You Can't "Fix" ADHD
ADHD is part of us. You’ll hear a lot of people talking about how they can help you “fix” your ADHD but they always seem to forget that first part. This week on the show, a meditation on fault, blame, and what it really means to fix ADHD.
2203: To Our Old Friend, Anxiety ...
Today, we take a stroll down anxiety lane to talk about how it relates to ADHD and how you might find calm after an anxiety storm.
459: ADHD & Self-Compassion: Learning to Speak to Ourselves with Love
We’re not always the friendliest narrators of our own lives. Sure, everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is late to a meeting or call from time to time. Everyone has rough days. But if you’re living with ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve taken the practice of celebrating your perceived failures to an art form.
457: Parenting, Anxiety, and COVID at Home with Dr. Sharon Saline
As we move into the winter months, the wake of the pandemic always just ahead of us, Dr. Sharon Saline is here to talk about ADHD Parenting under stress, particularly when COVID comes home.
450: ADHD Stresspectations
We’re stressed! Clients are stressed. Kids are stressed. We’re all stressed. Why? Because when you’re living with ADHD, you’re getting more negative messages thrown at you like so many darts than those without. And because we set such high expectations for ourselves, those negative messages leave us feeling so much more deflated!
432: Adjusting to a Different Normal
This week on the show, we're going to share some of those challenges faced by so many of you who have shared with our community and, more importantly, a collection of the incredible responses you offered one another in support.
431: Interrupting Negative Patterns with Dr. Dodge Rea
Environmental stress can make you feel like you're in a never-ending loop. Today on the show, Dr. Dodge Rea gives us some tools to interrupt those negative patterns.
428: The ADHD Storm of the Century with James Ochoa
We're living through a time of crisis. The pandemic is of course the global medical crisis. But inside each of us, we're living through our own, individual crises. If you're living with ADHD, you're likely keeping an eye on the horizion ... the ADHD Storm of the Century is on us and James Ochoa is back to help.
424: Pandemic Anxiety with Dr. Doug
We interrupt our regularly-scheduled podcast to inject a couple of ideas in your path today. In this first episode, Dr. Doug Herr is back to talk about the anxiety and stress that comes with living with the unknown.
417: Managing Emotions During the ADHD Job Hunt with Dr. Doug Herr Part II
This week, Dr. Doug is back to talk about managing the emotional blocks of the job hunt when the circumstances aren’t so rosy.
410: Creating Change In Your Life
This week on the show, Nikki introduces the Stages of Change with an eye on ADHD, and how you can use it to train yourself to better adapt to the world around you.
409: November Emotions Feedback
This week we embrace and extend the November theme of Emotion and ADHD and take on your thoughts about rejection sensitivity, emotional storms, sex, plus a bonus dose of seasonal affective disorder, to boot!
406: Facing the Emotional Storms of ADHD with James Ochoa
Straight from the Life Empowerment Center, James Ochoa is back today to share a story of his own emotional storm and the strategies he employed to move through it.
405: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Dr. William Dodson brings new insight to Emotional Regulation
Today on the show, Dr. Dodson joins Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright to discuss Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and provide new language to frame a state those living with ADHD know all too well.
401: The Procrastination-Anxiety Loop
This week's question comes from a listener: how do you navigate the procrastination-anxiety loop that emerges when hyperfocus and disinterest collide head on? This week on the show, Nikki shares background on the conditions that allow this sort of hyperfocus and procrastination to occur, and tools to shape a response before it happens again.
394: Shame, relationships, and ADHD as an exercise in getting back on the horse with Dr. Michelle Frank
It’s our last episode before the annual July break, and what a wonderful person we have to introduce you to this week! Dr. Michelle Frank joins us to talk about shame, our relationships, and the daily practice of getting back up on the horse with ADHD.
388: Dr. Ned Hallowell on Self-Esteem, Human Connection, and Finding Your Difficult
"Driven to Distraction" author Ned Hallowell brings his valuable insights on a subjecting near and dear to many of us with ADHD: how do you manage self-esteem and self-perception while standing in the wake of ADHD?