Joe Corpus, a Houston-based gardener with ADHD, shares his transformative journey towards self-awareness and acceptance. He discusses how self-awareness is crucial for personal growth and decision-making. Joe reflects on the feelings of disconnection stemming from his ADHD diagnosis and emphasizes the role of grief in his path to acceptance. The conversation highlights the healing benefits of nature and the importance of understanding one's emotions in nurturing both self and relationships. Tune in for a nurturing take on overcoming ADHD challenges!
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Self-Awareness and ADHD
Self-awareness requires working memory and metacognition, both deficient in ADHD.
These deficiencies hinder our ability to analyze the past, visualize the future, and think about our thinking.
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Joe's Diagnosis
Joe Corpus was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but his mother dismissed it.
Later, medication proved life-changing for him, enabling him to manage his business.
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Exercise for Healing
Exercise, especially stretching and yoga, can release trauma stored in the body.
This can be healing for ADHDers, who often suppress emotions through muscle tension.
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This book explores how toxic shame is the core motivator behind various toxic behaviors such as compulsion, co-dependency, addiction, and the drive to superachieve. It explains how these behaviors can break down family systems and destroy personal lives. Bradshaw provides techniques to identify, understand, and address the root causes of shame, and offers methods such as affirmations, visualizations, 'inner voice' and 'feeling' work, and guided meditations to release and heal from this shame. The book emphasizes the importance of recognizing and working through internalized shame to achieve wholeness and well-being[2][4][5].
Self-awareness is one of our deficient executive functioning skills and it can REALLY hold us ADHDers back if we're not careful.
Feel like you make the same mistakes over and over? That's in part because of lack of self-awareness. Feel like you don't know yourself, who you are, and what you want? Yeah, that's because your self-awareness isn't great.
In this episode, my client Joe Corpus is here to discuss his path to self-awareness and the crucial role that acceptance played in the process.
Joe was diagnosed with ADHD as a child but told by his mother that he was "fine" and "didn't need medication." What ensued was decades of feeling disconnected from others, but mostly disconnected from himself.
Joe shares his journey of developing self-awareness and how this can only be done with a hefty dose of self-acceptance. And the pathway? Well, you may not like it (I sure don't!): GRIEF.
We talk about it all...you're going to feel so nurtured by this episode, I just know it.
Joe Corpus is from Houston Texas. He owns a small, full-service gardening company dedicated to the stewardship of a limited number of high-end residential properties. Joe has been a part of FOCUSED for 10 months. He was diagnosed with ADHD approximately two years before the pandemic.
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