Translating ADHD Understanding Emotions in ADHD Behavior
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Apr 7, 2025 The podcast dives into the powerful impact of emotions on ADHD behaviors, showcasing a client's battle with email management influenced by guilt and shame. It discusses how rejection sensitivity and trauma intertwine with ADHD, highlighting the need for sensitivity in coaching versus therapy. Self-awareness emerges as a key theme, promoting personal growth and resilience. The hosts also explore how family dynamics and societal expectations shape emotional responses, ultimately guiding listeners toward better self-acceptance and navigational strategies.
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Email Management Breakthrough
- A coaching client struggled with managing emails due to guilt about ignoring specific difficult emails.
- Creating a template for responding to these 'hard emails' cleared her inbox and reduced her stress.
Roots of Rejection Sensitivity
- Rejection sensitivity may stem from actual trauma or hypervigilance to perceived rejection.
- Emotional triggers often relate to past experiences that inform present struggles.
Coaching vs Therapy Boundaries
- Coaches should stay curious when clients bring up past experiences but avoid deep trauma work.
- Recognize coaching aims to get above emotional responses, while therapy helps move through them safely.