Dr. Ned Hallowell on Self-Esteem, Human Connection, and Finding Your Difficult

For many of us, our relationship with Dr. Edward Hallowell, M.D., Ed.D., started with his best-selling 1994 book, Driven to Distraction. He's the author of 20 books on various psychological topics and is a highly recognized international speaker on ADHD, focus, productivity, and beyond. He’s the founder of The Hallowell Centers, and has been featured as a guest expert across the media landscape, not to mention he’s a terrific host of his own podcast, DISTRACTION, which focuses on, you guessed it, the struggles and distractions of this amped up world.

Dr. Hallowell joins us today to talk about self-esteem. It’s a subject that creeps in and out of our community regularly with questions that angle on our perception of self, our sometimes flagging love and appreciation of ourselves, and who better to help us assess self-esteem and the ADHD role in our self-perception than one of the premier leaders in our field and the ADHD experience.

Links & Notes

• Because I Came from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist by Ned Hallowell
• Driven to Distraction by Ned Hallowell
• DrHallowell.com
• Subscribe to Distraction Podcast with Dr. Ned Hallowell

• (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
• (02:39) - Introducing Dr. Ned Hallowell
• (05:59) - How does self-esteem impact ADHD? Ferrari Brain, Bicycle Brakes
• (11:02) - Climbing Mount Shame to see more clearly
• (16:01) - How can you get beyond shame to ask for help?
• (22:51) - Is social media a solution for connection?
• (27:37) - Listener Questions

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