424 | March Live Q&A with the ADHD reWired Podcast Family!

In today’s show, Eric is joined by Rachel Moore, a licensed psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist, based in San Diego, California!  Rachel is also certified in EMDR and Brainspotting (BSP)!  She works primarily with creative clients, such as artists, writers, and musicians.  Before becoming a therapist, Rachel earned her bachelor’s degree in creative writing and was a newspaper copy editor for 14 years.  She is also a musician, a singer, and a proud member of the ADHD community!   You’ll hear about relational-based therapy, trauma and overwhelm, discussions on EMDR and brainspotting, and the importance of finding a therapist who understands your creative needs.  You will also be along for the ride as Rachel guides Eric through the Flash technique!   Find Rachel on Instagram @rachelmoorecounseling Learn more about Rachel at RachelMooreCounseling.com Check out The Artist’s Way Workshop on her website Listen to Rachel’s podcast: Beyond Artist’s Block   Questions/Topics:  [00:01:10] Introducing Rachel [00:01:58] What is EMDR? What is Brainspotting? Are the two types of therapy connected?  [00:05:30] Discussing relational-based therapy   [00:07:18] How do you distinguish the difference between a general state of overwhelm and a trauma response?  [00:16:58] What is the Flash technique?  [00:19:14] A demonstration of the Flash technique  [00:27:25] Eric shares his experiences with the Flash technique  [00:31:40] “The brain and the eyes are made of the same stuff” and the theories of Brainspotting [00:37:35] A demonstration of grounding techniques  [00:41:18] EMDR and BSP: How are these modalities helpful for ADHD brains and creatives?  [00:45:30] Finding someone who understands the experience and depth of what creativity means for you [00:49:14] Closing Thoughts Resources & Honorable Mentions: Book: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Article:  on Brainspotting.com – What is Brainspotting?   Article: on EMDRIA – About EMDR Therapy 🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired’s award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!

In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting with Yakini Pierce, discussing her journey with ADHD as a parent.  

Yakini Pierce is a mom with ADHD that has two children, both with ADHD. She has an MBA and degrees in engineering and mass communications, but her strong passion is advocating for parents that have children with ADHD, parents, and adults in general that have ADHD through her ADHD Love platform.

I enjoyed listening to her perspective and approach when it comes to parenting kids with ADHD. 

You can find out more about Yakini’s work:

• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/adhdlove2020/
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/adhdlove2020
• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/adhdlove2020/
• Clubhouse – https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@adhdlove2020 
• YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDLove2020
• ADHD Love Merchandise:  https://www.adhdlove2020.com/
• Podcast – ADHD Love Parent Talk Spotify, iTunes 

In today’s show, Eric is joined by Dana Crews!  Dana has been a coach, educator, facilitator, and trainer in the behavioral health and mental health field for over 15 years.  She is currently combining her own personal practice, unique life experience, and education in the ancient wisdom traditions together with modern psychology and behavioral and neuroscience research in her newly-created mindfulness ADHD life-coaching business: Second Arrow Life Coaching!  Dana is an advocate for invisible disabilities and neurodivergence.  She believes that knowing and connecting to your core values and practicing basic mindfulness and yogic techniques allows us to transform self-judgment and fear into constructive reflection, insight, compassion, health, and creative solutions. Find Dana on LinkedIn Learn more about Dana at her website secondarrowlifecoaching.com Find Dana on Instagram @secondarrowlifecoaching Questions/Topics:  [00:01:11] Introducing Dana  [00:03:08] What is the difference between satisfaction and contentment?  [00:05:03] Exploring contentedness and its different avenues  [00:06:32] Where is the overlap and what is separate between contentment and gratitude?  [00:11:51] A discussion about the discomfort in familiarity  [00:14:24] Is the struggle of holding onto contentment an issue of emotional self-regulation?   [00:20:00] How much of the struggle around contentment comes from societal ideas of feeling content and ADHD brains needing novelty?  [00:21:40] A discussion on Buddhist psychology and philosophy  [00:23:52] How does one strive through the lens of Buddhist philosophy?  [00:27:27] Not thinking about the future vs. over-planning for the future  [00:29:40] Overidentification, rumination, and separation of self  [00:31:32] How much of being able to experience being content has to do with resilience?   [00:39:40] Dana shares more about growing up, undiagnosed ADHD, travel, and meeting the Dalai Lama  [00:41:58] What is Ayurveda  [00:44:33] How can self-awareness inform our understanding of our experiences?  [00:46:30] A moment of an idea of contentment  [00:48:26] Closing thoughts  🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired’s award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!

Join the ADHD reWired Team every second Tuesday of the month for our monthly Live Q&A! Go to adhdrewired.com/events to register so you can join the ADHD reWired Team live on Zoom and ask your ADHD-related questions! In this episode, you’ll get answers to questions about entrepreneurship, getting unstuck, learning from failures, setting boundaries, how coaching can help, systems as an artistic process, and more!   You can even get an uninterrupted listening experience of this episode and all ADHD reWired episodes when you become a Patron at $5.00 a month or more by going to adhdrewired.com/Patreon! You might even catch some extra questions when you become a Patron and tune into the Patreon-only private podcast feed!  Questions/Topics: [00:01:10] Introducing today’s panelists! [00:02:45] A listener, who was diagnosed in February 2023 and works in education, asks the panelists about using their skills to help others – specifically those with ADHD.  What advice does the panel have to get unstuck and get started?   [00:05:46] Eric asks what the listener would do if they were asked the same question. [00:12:08] Brian chimes in about struggling to find time to launch a business outside of work. [00:16:01] “How can I find more clarity and do something that’s going to be really powerful so I can follow that instead of doing way-too-many-things?”  [00:18:19] Faisal talks about values and short-term goals.  [00:21:35] Laura discusses the differences between excitement, overwhelm, getting overwhelmed from being excited, and feelings of boredom.  [00:26:25] A listener, who is also a mom of two young children, is having difficulty “getting back into the groove” of their freelance work.  What strategies do the panelists have to bounce back, and could the listener have time for group coaching?  [00:28:51] Eric asks about self-care strategies.  [00:30:56] Kristin talks about the impact on parents who have kids with special needs and medical needs.  [00:34:13] Laura addresses how the coaching groups can help.  [00:35:59] Eric asks about having boundaries around work-blocks and self-care.  [00:39:09] A discussion about our inner critics and gardening!  [00:44:02] “Can [ADHD reWired’s coaching groups] help people uncover what their goals/wants are? I think not knowing what I want and indecision are my biggest issues.”   [00:45:37] Laura talks about people-pleasing, going with the flow, finding out who we are, and uncovering what’s truly important to us.  [00:47:01] “Group is an experiential learning experience… Our biases [don’t] allow us to see how we’re doing these things that [aren’t] making it easier for us to move towards success.” – Faisal  [00:48:58] Kristin addresses bringing life to group-coaching to integrate tools and strategies.  [00:50:22] Brian talks about the differences between individual coaching and group coaching.  [00:53:01] Kristin asks about creating systems. [00:55:40] Systems as an artistic process. [00:58:07] Closing thoughts. Resources & Honorable Mentions: ADHD reWired Episode 309 with Russell Ramsay: Rethinking Adult ADHD 🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired’s award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!

In this episode, we’re meeting Jason Boughn, a life coach specializing in tools to address ADHD.  He also welcomes neurodiversity of all types and neurotypical people!  Jason has a comfortable way of evoking a person’s story, getting to the heart of the matter most relevant to the storyteller.  The stories we tell ourselves and the ones created to fit in better with others are affirmations which shape our reality.  Jason’s focus is exploring and reframing our personal story to create a beautiful life experience.  In this episode, Jason shares his story about his brain injury and how it has impacted his life, and how the manifestations of ADHD are similar traumatic brain injuries (TBI).  You’ll also hear about how Jason experiences emotion, not fitting in, acting, and his passion for learning. Then, you’ll also hear about his journey through relationships, his compassion throughout those relationships, how he overcame homelessness, and what led to that chapter in his life.  Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network: with Brendan Mahan with Will Curb with MJ Siemens

In this episode, Eric is joined by Camille Roney, who is a certified academic life coach, whose work has appeared in the New York Journal, , , and more!  Camille empowers students to start earning high grades while studying less and enjoying the process.  You’ll hear Camille and Eric talk about the importance of curiosity and experimentation, why having different ways of absorbing information can depend on the content we are trying to absorb, the art of being bored, and using our calendars to reflect our values.  Next, Eric and Camille discuss the benefits of allowing our minds to wander, strategies to be attentive to what we are reading, questions to prompt our curiosity, giving ourselves space, the next steps someone can take when they’re ready to self-advocate, and addressing our internal dialogue when we’re questioning our paths.   Finally, you’ll hear what not to do when writing a paper, trauma, burnout, self-appreciation, getting to the “why” behind the paths we choose, how the cost of education has changed, and why it’s ok to pause and enjoy the experience. Connect with Camille:  Website:   Instagram: Other Questions & Topics in this Episode: What prompted Camille to go down the path as an academic life coach?  How does Camille help people to discover how they learn?  What is value-based time-blocking?  What is the value of learning how to be bored?  How can you stay attentive while reading?  How does Camille help someone determine if they’re down the “wrong” educational path or if they need to develop study skills?  What does Camille do to help students with writing? When someone is pursuing a highly competitive field, how does Camille work with them?  Resources & Honorable Mentions: Quote: “There is nothing wrong with changing your mind.” – Camille Roney Quote: “Wait, our self-worth isn’t determined by how much we get done?” – Eric Book: Check out the Other Podcasts on the ADHD reWired Podcast Network: with Brendan Mahan with Will Curb with MJ Siemens