ADHD Essentials 31: Living the Modern History of ADHD, With Diann Wingert, LCSW, ADHD Coach, and mother with ADHD of children with ADHD
Aug 3, 2018
41:05
This is a powerful one. Diann Wingert, LCSW shares her journey with ADHD. It's a tale the encompasses her professional work and her role in her family, and mirrors our modern undernstanding of ADHD. She shares her struggles, uncertainty, successes, and growth.
Diann Wingert is a coach and psychotherapist on a mission to help others achieve their true potential through radical self acceptance, leveraging their strengths and creating an ADHD friendly business and life. She helps creative entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals overcome their struggles with procrastination, perfectionism and people pleasing. Find Diann at www.diannwingertcoaching.com.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
- What counted as ADHD in the early to mid-90s and how still that colors views today
- How our understanding of ADHD has evolved
- The patterns of ADHD across generations
- How a child’s diagnosis might affect their parents
- ADHD & Trauma
- Why people with ADHD might not get diagnosed until college
- The rainbow of colors of ADHD
- What ADHD adds to our parenting
- Empathic Time Travel
- Blame vs. Responsibility
- The transition from parenting children to parenting adults
- The echoes of WWII (Wait… What!?!)
- Radical Self-Acceptance
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