Taking Control: The Adhd Podcast

Looking for a little game night fun for friends and family? You've come to the right place. This week on the show, we're talking all about games that may — or may not — improve the ADHD (research is thin!). But they're a lot of fun and might just help you build some new connections for the cold winter nights ahead!Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!LumosityLumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising Charges for Its “Brain Training” ProgramBrainHQPeak - Brain TrainingAn online investigation of the relationship between the frequency of word puzzle use and cognitive function in a large sample of older adults from the International Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryEfficacy of chess training for the treatment of ADHD: A prospective open label study in Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud MentalNew York Times Crossword Gift SubscriptionPandemicFlashpoint Fire RescueZombicideStop ThiefMentalBlocksShadowBlocks (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (00:43) - Nikki's Big D

Nikki’s back from the Annual 31st International Conference on ADHD and she has lessons to share! This week on the show we’re talking about motivation and ADHD, lessons from the author of The Explosive Child, and ADHD and girls and women, each of which served to enlighten and shape the way we do our work here at Take Control ADHD and The ADHD Podcast. Links & NotesJoin 2020 Accountability Coaching — Enrollment Open Now!Check out some ADHD Podcast Merch!Annual 31st International Conference on ADHD (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (00:58) - Support The Show! (06:40) - Big Acronyms Mean Big Lessons! (BAMBL) (11:26) - ADHD and Motivation (24:10) - Dr. Ross Green — The Explosive Child (32:33) - ADHD Girls & Women (34:42) - #RAF (Resting Attention Face) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Caroline Maguire is back! Caroline is an ADHD coach, author, teacher, and speaker with a special focus in social skills supporting kids — and parents of kids — with ADHD. Her book is OUT NOW, Why Will No One Play with Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive and we’re thrilled she’s back to talk to us about social success today… Caroline Maguire welcome back to The ADHD Podcast!!And make sure to check out the new merch in our TeePublic store including the Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel Podcast gear!!Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Why Will No One Play with Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive by Caroline MaguireLearn more about Caroline MaguireCaroline Maguire on Facebook (00:26) - The Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel Podcast Merch! (01:11) - Support The ADHD Podcast (02:31) - Caroline Maguire is Back! (06:12) - A quick review of the book (08:16) - A review of the seven things (12:38)

Back in the late 1970s, two researchers developed a model for evaluating those suffering through addiction in their journey toward health. The Transtheoretical Model, or more colloquially, Prochaska’s Stages of Change, went on to help social workers and therapists treat those suffering with transformational diagnoses for decades. As it turns out, the Stages of Change model works pretty well for us, too, as we think about our relationship to ADHD. 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.Links & NotesChanging for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward by James Prochaska (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:20) - Support the Show - Become a Patron! (04:27) - The Steps to Change (10:15) - The Five Stages (10:46) - Stage 1: Precontemplation (12:26) - Stage 2: Contemplation (16:01) - Stage 3: Preparation (19:47) - Stage

It’s been an emotional month here at The ADHD Podcast. With guests and topics all targeted at the emotional centers of our ADHD, you can be sure our fantastic community has come to us with feedback and questions. So, 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!Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (04:14) - Support the show, join The ADHD Community (05:45) - It's SAD Season (17:15) - Pushing past RSD (22:18) - The Ochoa Audible Storm (25:38) - After Dark with Ari Tuckman (28:10) - Two ADHD Partners and healthy sex questions (29:42) - Cascading challenges spreading through different areas of life (35:11) - Unable to let arguments go (42:02) - The ADHD Unified Singularity Formula ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are gearing up for November here at The ADHD Podcast. November marks the start of national novel writing month, 30 days of fiendish exploration of words happening at keyboards around the world. But what happens if your brand of ADHD throws a wrench in your desire to create your masterpiece?This week on the show, illustrator and designer Dani Donovan joins us to talk about her creative process. Dani is the pen behind many fantastic ADHD comics floating around your social media feeds. She tells us how she got started, leading to her emerging identity as a vocal leader of the #NeuroDiverseSquad online. She’s a wonderful talent, and we hope you find her work and process inspirational as you seek to shape your own creative process.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!ADHDDD.comSupport Dani on PatreonFollow @DaniDonovan on TwitterFollow DaniDonovan on InstagramFollow DaniDonovanArt on FacebookConnect with DaniDonovan on LinkedInAbout Dani DonovanDani Donovan is a purpose-driven d

This week we’re hosting a frank conversation about sex and ADHD. Our guest is Dr. Ari Tuckman, a psychologist and certified sex therapist, not to mention one of our favorite expert sources who somehow we’ve never had on the show. Today, Ari is here to talk to us about the impact of ADHD on a couple and how the sexual relationship — and our relationship to sexuality — functions in light of ADHD. The book is the result of years of research and survey responses thousands strong of those living with ADHD reporting their candid experience, and it’s documented in ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship by Ari Tuckman, Psy.D., CSTAri’s Books (01:36) - Support The ADHD Podcast (02:53) - Ari Tuckman 'After Dark' (05:30) - Survey Background (08:27) - Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction (09:45) - Positive and negative attending (12:42) - Sex and RSD (15:08) - Teamwork (1

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.This is one of those important episodes. Important, not just because of the lessons and strategies we share for moving through your own emotional ADHD storms, but for the example that James puts on display. He is, after all, a leading voice in healthy living with ADHD, and he’s suffering publicly through a career-defining storm of his own. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. There is no shame in the battles we engage with our ADHD. Thanks to James for sharing his story (which you can read in full in the links below). Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Read James’ Audible Storm StoryShare your ‘Storm Story’ with JamesJames’ resources for listeners (00:00) - This Is The ADHD Podcast (02:33) - Join The ADHD Community (03:42) - James Ochoa is back! (05:12) - The Emotional Distress Syndrome: A Primer (06:3

There aren’t many practitioners writing about today’s topic. Unless, that is, you look up the collected works of Dr. Bill Dodson. Dr. Dodson is an award-winning board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in adult ADHD and his contributions to the study of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria bring him to the show today. According to Dr. Dodson, nearly all those living with ADHD live with some level of rejection sensitivity, and thanks to the poor training on the ADHD connections to the condition, patients are going misdiagnosed and mistreated as a result. 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. About Dr. William DodsonDr. Bill Dodson is a award-winning board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in adult ADHD. While Dr. Dodson has been on the faculties of Georgetown University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center he is primarily a clinical practitione

Living with ADHD can be exhausting. But even at the end of a long day, responsibilities pile up. How do you recharge to stay focused... when your focus has lost its focus?This week’s show is anchored around a recent article by friend-of-the-show Casey Dixon. Her ideas were inspirational for us and spurred our conversation today. Plus, thanks to a listener question, we get to wax dreamily about our ideal ADHD home!Links & Notes‘How to Recharge your Tired Brain After Work’ by Casey Dixon (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:31) - Follow-up: Job Lock-in (06:08) - Listener Question: The ADHD Dream Home? (10:37) - Pete is all-in on 3m Command Strips (13:04) - Pinterest (16:12) - Support the Show (17:20) - Energy After Hours with ADHD ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The connection between work satisfaction and ADHD is pretty clear if you’re living through the frustration. There are all kinds of reasons to leave a job, but taking the actual step of resigning is one best approached with a clear head. This week on the show, Nikki and Pete share a set of questions that can help you frame your own perspective at work and help find clarity in your desire to leave, or stick it out and work for change. Nikki’s list of probing questions:What’s causing you to even think about this question? How much do you complain about your job? What do you complain most about? How would you describe your relationship with your boss? What about co-workers? If you were still doing this job 2 years from now, would be happy or mad? Are you holding on to your current job because you are afraid of change?Are there more things you like about your job than not like?Can you live with what you don’t like? Is it possible to change some of the things you don’t like? Do you feel supported at your job, do yo

There are signs in certain kinds of organizations that document the last time staff their experienced an incident. Any sort of incident that leads to work stopping counts, and as soon as it happens, the sign gets reset and everyone starts over at Day Zero. “This facility has worked [0] Days without incident,” the sign says. If there’s anything in our lives that can cause work to stop unpredictably, uncontrollably, sometimes even unconsciously, it’s ADHD. What do we do so that we can reset our own sign to Day Zero? This week on the show, Pete and Nikki take an incident response approach to ADHD with a focus on mindfully controlling what you can control, not lying to yourself, and moving forward. Every bad day has a day zero right around the corner. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:16) - Sponsor: You. The ADHD Patrons (05:55) - Day Zero. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The idea that individual ADHD symptoms exacerbate one another isn’t new to those of us living with the diagnosis. But what happens when symptoms collude to create cycles of behavior and responses? The results can be vastly more damaging than any individual symptom on its own. That’s the question that comes from a listener today: 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. Links & Notes Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! Understanding ADHD Hyperfocus — ADDitude Magazine ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression: The Diagnosis Puzzle of Related Conditions — ADDitude Magazine Decoding the ADHD Mind — ADDitude Magazine # (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (01:19) - Sponsor: YOU! (03:05) - The Procrastination-Anxiety Loop ★ Support this podca

Brett Terpstra is a software developer, author, and podcaster and his work has been the subject of Pete’s technology fever dreams for years now. Brett is also unusually candid about his experience living with ADHD and bipolar disorder and after years of processing in public, he’s managed to figure some things out… others, a mystery. This week on the show, Brett joins us to talk about his experience living and working with ADHD. He shares his experience in learning how to live with his shadow, and how to forgive when the shadow takes control. This is a show about the voices that we listen to, and those that we learn to avoid as we wake up and get moving with ADHD. Links & Notes Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! BrettTerpstra.com Brett’s Projects Marked 2 nvUltra • Searchable, Portable, MultiMarkdown Notes (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:10) - Listener Question Time! What did I do this weekend...? (04:57) - What are our favorite books? (08:25) - Sponsor: Audible (09:13) - In

It’s one of the most important routines you can manage. Getting it right means you’re impacting every area of your life in some way. You’ll feel better, you’ll think more clearly, you might even be better looking. OK, we can’t guarantee that last one, but you’ll feel better looking!What is this magic routine? It’s meal planning. Figuring out how to best strategize the food you bring into your home and creating smart habits around eating it is both challenging, and deceptively simple at once. But it turns out that if you’re working to build good living systems for your ADHD, you likely already have the skills you need to make meal-planning successful for yourself and your family!Links & NotesPaprika Recipe App for iOS, macOS, Android, WindowsInstantPot on AmazonNom Nom PaleoSoylentBlue Apron (00:00) - The ADHD Podcast — Meal-Planning (01:30) - Sponsored by YOU at Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (02:57) - Meal-planning and ADHD (04:54) - Soylent... when you've given up on food all together (06:46) - The Routine

Sure, we’re in the middle of our back-to-school series. But whether you’re heading back to school or just getting ready for the seasons to change, there’s never a better time to review your routines. From daily hygiene to writing that next report, this week on the show Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright take on the components of a great routine, and the mindset you’ll need to cultivate to make it stick. Links & Notes Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! Sponsor: Audible — sign up for a new account and get a free book on us! This month’s recommendation: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (01:26) - Sponsor: Audible (03:28) - Setting Up New Routines (07:36) - Begin with the end in mind (19:36) - Consistency (24:02) - Support The ADHD Podcast on Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

If you’ve ever tried to engage in a discussion of your ADHD with a busy professor and run into frustration, you’re not alone. This week, we asked a group of instructors what they would like to hear when working with ADHD students and the results were puzzling, frustrating, dare we say disappointing? But there’s room for hope thanks to some enterprising student services folks and a general spirit of educators that really do want the best for their students. This is an episode about confronting lack of experience in a slow-moving educational system and an effort to get what you need out of your educational career. Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! (00:00) - Welcome to the ADHD Podcast (01:43) - Find the Show (02:02) - Opening Question: How do you handle online courses with ADHD (08:20) - Sponsor: You! At Patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (09:47) - The Faculty Perspective (14:42) - Three Lessons (18:54) - A dose of optimism (21:33) - The Research (25:06) - Recommendations from Student Services: How

Asking for help is hard, sure. But have you ever stopped to ask why it’s hard for you? See, asking others for support is hard for each of us in a different way. Maybe we live with the anxiety that others will judge us for not being competent in some are or another. Maybe we believe they’ll think we’re not as smart as they are, or as they thought we were. Maybe we struggle with the logistics of asking for — and taking advantage of — help from another. Until you figure that out, you’re going to have a tough time marching into your office of disability services to ask for the support you deserve as you make your way through school with ADHD. This week on the show, Nikki and Pete take on the myths and misunderstandings about ADHD accommodations in college, starting with the old saw, “accommodations make for an unfair advantage.” But that’s not all! You’ll end with a guide to the sort of language you can use to reach out to your instructors and professors to explain your needs, advocate for yourself, and set yours

Grace Friedman was diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at twelve years old, wrote her first book about it at 15, and now she’s an advocate for young people with ADHD and founder of the ADDYTeen.com community. Dr. Sarah Cheyette is a pediatric neurologist and expert in working with kids with ADHD. Together, they have written Winning with ADHD: A Playbook for Teens and Young Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and they’re here to talk with us about their journey on the show this week. Links & Notes ADDYTeen.com SarahCheyette.com Winning With ADHD: A Playbook for Teens and Young Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder — Amazon.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's the last episode of our trip through time and what better way to wrap up our July break than with a message from social skills expert Caroline Maguire in her first appearance on the show: never forget the art of the "Polite Pretend" people... it'll save your bacon! Thank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon! Do social situations exhaust you? Do you feel like your brain is working in overdrive to keep up with your environment? According to our guest this week, that’s a common refrain for those living with ADHD. Caroline Maguire is a coach, author, teacher, and speaker with a special focus in social skills supporting kids and parents of kids with ADHD. She’s here today to talk with us all about reading between the lines and the challenges that ADHDers face when it comes to understanding the unspoken complexities of social interaction. It’s time to master the “Polite Pretend!” Links & Notes Caroline Maguire ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★