Step Away: Resilient Parenting Strategies for ADHD Families

Nov 3, 2025

Dr. Kate Lund, a clinical psychologist and peak performance coach, shares her insights on resilient parenting. Drawing from her personal journey with hydrocephalus and raising twins, she emphasizes resilience as a daily lifestyle choice. Learn about the Relaxation Response—a quick stress-modulation tool—and how it can help manage chaos at home. Lund also encourages parents to avoid the comparison trap, model calmness, and celebrate small wins, fostering stability and confidence in children with ADHD.

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ANECDOTE

Early Health Struggle Shaped Her Path

Kate Lund describes childhood hydrocephalus and repeated hospital stays that shaped her interest in psychology.
She credits that experience with learning to focus on abilities rather than limitations and choosing a career helping others.

INSIGHT

Resilience As A Daily Lifestyle

Lund reframes resilience as a lifestyle rather than episodic toughness.
Building daily practices creates a baseline so parents can 'ride waves' instead of constantly reacting.

ADVICE

Manage Your Stress Response Daily

Manage your stress response daily to keep your baseline as level as possible.
Prioritize stress modulation so you can respond instead of react when challenges arise.

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Host: Kate Brownfield, Certified Whole Person & ADHD Parent Coach
Guest: Dr. Kate Lund, clinical psychologist, peak performance coach, TEDx speaker, and author of Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting

Episode Overview

In this empowering “Kate + Kate” episode, Kate talks with Dr. Kate Lund about what resilient parenting really looks like when you’re raising kids with ADHD, big emotions, or health challenges. Drawing from her own medical journey (hydrocephalus as a child), 20+ years as a psychologist, and parenting 18-year-old twins, Dr. Lund explains resilience not as “pushing through,” but as a lifestyle: managing your stress response daily so you can ride the waves of homework battles, morning chaos, and dysregulated kids. She teaches a simple, science-backed tool, the Relaxation Response, that parents can practice for 5 minutes in the morning and at night to lower reactivity, model calmness, and create a more regulated home.

Suppose your baseline feels higher than that of other parents because your child is more intense or more dysregulated. In that case, this episode will help you stop comparing, honor your unique context, and build steadiness that you can actually sustain.

What We Talk About (Highlights)

Resilience as a lifestyle
Managing your stress response
The Relaxation Response (Herbert Benson)
Modeling regulation
Avoiding the comparison trap
“Step away” moments
Ripple effect for ADHD families: Calm first, then coach skills

Resources & Links

Guest: Dr. Kate Lund https://www.katelundspeaks.com/
Book: Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting https://www.katelundspeaks.com/book

About Your Host, Kate

I’m Kate Brownfield, Certified Whole Person & ADHD Parent Coach, author of How We Roll: A Parent’s Journey Raising a Child with ADHD, and host of The ADHD Kids Can Thrive Podcast. I help parents understand ADHD through a whole-person lens—because every child is unique, and so is every family.

🌐 Find me: ADHDKidsCanThrive.com

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