ADHD IS OVER!

THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH is a beautiful episode with Howard Glasser, the Founder of the Children’s Success Foundation and creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach®. He likes to think of himself as a voice for children’s greatness so that ultimately children can find their own voice of greatness. Howard’s training background is in family treatment, clinical studies and educational leadership and his body of work has been inspired from his work with some of the most intense and challenging children. He has been referred to as one of the more influential living persons working to reduce children’s reliance on psychiatric medications and his work has been featured on CNN, in Esquire Magazine, as well as in now inspiring a growing number of programs worldwide. Howard is the author of 15 books, including Transforming the Difficult Child, Notching Up the Nurtured Heart Approach, and Igniting Greatness and is a sought after Keynote speaker at conferences in areas of treatment and education. The Nurtured Heart Approach has been successfully adopted by the state of New Jersey’s Coordinated System of Care and is being examined as a model of care by other states as well as being currently researched by both by Rutgers University and the University of Arizona’s Zuckerman School of Public Health with findings soon to be published. He currently teaches certification trainings on his method, teaches at Andrew Weil’s renowned program at the University of Arizona’s School of Integrative Medicine as well as in the new Transformational Wellness program at U of A’s School of Public Health. Howard and I had a moving conversation around ADHD children and our society's need to honor children for who they are and not try to mold them into who we think they should be! For more information on Howard Glasser and The Nurtured Heart Approach, please visit http://www.howardglasser.com For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

IAN TURNED OUT is another perfect example of a young adult, Ian who was diagnosed and medicated as a child and ended up self-medicating with drugs and almost committing suicide. Luckily, he turned his life around and got himself off of the stimulant drugs that were leading him towards darkness. The notion that unmedicated children with ADHD will self-medicate later in life is simply a made-up narrative that doesn't hold up when it comes to the latest scientific evidence. Many parents are intimidated by teachers, principles, and doctors alike with this fable of doom. It's gotta stop! Listen to Ian and you will hear for yourself, yet again, that if children with adverse childhood experiences in life are 'sedated' with stimulant medication, they will more likely end up facing trouble than children who were not medicated. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

WHERE ARE THE FATHERS is a deep exploration of the notion that fatherless households majorly impact a child's experience of the world, his or her environment, and himself or herself. Most of the time, divorces are not peaceful and conscious and the children end up in the crosshairs of two angry parents, unintentionally dragged into the drama, ultimately creating family trauma that creates in a child the behaviors we then call symptoms and label them as a disorder know as 'ADHD'. If you're a father of a child diagnosed with ADHD, please listen to this podcast carefully as we as men have a duty, a responsibitlity to be there for our kids... NO MATTER WHAT! Our absences in our children's lives are creating much of the 'disorder' in our world today. We can do better than that. We can start today. We can stop running now! Fathers, join me on this movement to end ADHD by putting a stake in the ground as confident, grounded, and masculine role models full of certainty about life! For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com or follow us on Facebook @adhdisover

MAD IN AMERICA is a powerful episode that aims to debunk the most common misconceptions around ADHD (it's a brain disorder, it's genetic, it's due to a chemical imbalance, Medication is the most effective treatment, etc.)with the help of Robert Whitaker. We also discussed the Russell Barkley lead 2002 'Global ADHD Consensus' and how misleading and incomplete the paper was. Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. He is the author of five books, three of which cover the history or practice of modern psychiatry. He has won numerous awards for science writing, and in 1998 he was part of a team writing for the Boston Globe that was shortlisted for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles questioning the ethics of psychiatric research in which unsuspecting patients were given drugs expected to heighten their psychosis. He is the founder and publisher of Mad in America, a webzine critical of the modern psychiatric establishment. For more information on Robert Whitaker and Mad in America, please visit: www.madinamerica.com For more information on our podcast and the movement, please visit: www.adhdisover.com

WHY IMPULSIVITY MATTERS is a delicate and textured download around impulsivity. We've all heard it before: "He's so impulsive." As if it was a bad thing. Even when we diagnose children with mental disorders such as ADHD, impulsivity is listed as one of the symptoms of this so-called 'brain disorder'. But if we have it all wrong? What if Impulsivity is actually a needed skill to hone our own intuition? What will happen if we keep sedating our children's impulsivity with stimulant medication? Can an adult who was medicated as a child properly use their intuition? Listen in and see if you resonate with what I channeled here in this episode. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

A DISEASE CALLED CHILDHOOD not only describes how we feel about the overdiagnosis of children with ADHD, but it's also the title of one of the award-winning books by Dr. Marilyn Wedge. Dr. Wedge is an award-winning family therapist and author of several books (‘Pills are not for Preschoolers’, ‘A Disease called Childhood’, to name a couple), and numerous professional articles in the field of family therapy. Dr. Wedge has had blogs on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal She has consulted for People Magazine, Parenting Magazine and Natural Health Magazine on issues of child development and how to raise happy, healthy children. In this episode, Dr. Wedge tells us about the most common causes for ADHD... and it's not what you might think! Join us as we dive deep into the world of ADHD, family, trauma and mostly find out how to start healing the entire family when a child with ADHD is present. For more information on Dr. Wedge, please visit http://www.marilynwedgephd.com For more information on this podcast and our movement, please visit http://www.adhdisover.com

ANDY TURNED OUT is an episode with Andrew Parry who was medicated as a child for ADHD, suggested by his school counselor at the time. Novartis, the maker of Ritalin had distributed brochures to the schools in the area promoting Ritalin as '...making kids normal again'. Andrew's mother Sue Parry (Episode 10 - Saving Andy) decided to take Andy off of the prescribed medication when he started to have severe side effects. In this episode, Andrew shares his experience growing up with having been labeled with ADHD and medicated with the stimulant drug Ritalin. Today, Andrew is a successful entrepreneur and is the founder of the Seattle Pomade Company as well as the co-founder of Resonant Botanicals. He also loves to cook and he has recently gotten engaged. In short: Andy turned out, didn't he! For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

PAYING FOR ATTENTION is an episode with Consciousness Catalyst de Vie, a deep dive into the meaning of attention, focus, concentration and most of all what it means to 'pay attention'. In the world of ADHD, we are said to have a deficit of attention. It seems to be a currency that each child owns and can give freely. But what makes a child not want to give attention? And what if that child perhaps also doesn't receive the kind of attention they need from their parents, teachers and other authority figures? Could it be that we've been giving away our attention to people, organizations, platforms and so-called beliefs and truths without actually consciously choosing to do so? Perhaps it's time to start the 'Attention Liberation Movement' and for all of us to claim not only our sovereignty but also to take back our attention and start over. So, if you have chosen to listen to this episode, we say a big THANK YOU for giving us your attention! For more information on de Vie, please visit www.daretobepresent.com For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

HUNTERS IN A FARMER'S WORLD is a powerful episode with my friend and very special guest Thom Hartmann, an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. In the ADHD world, Thom famously authored "ADD - A Different Perception") and is the creator (proposed by him in 1978, published in 1992) of the Hunter vs. Farmer hypothesis, saying AD[H]D is an expected evolutionary adaptation to hunting lifestyles. Thom proposes that these individuals have the ability of rapidly shifting their focus and external attention, and holding multiple trains of thought. This ability causes difficulties as they live and work in cultures in which "farming" — planned, predictable, organized, repetitive behaviors — is typical. Thom has also established specialized schools for children with ADHD, such as The Hunter School in Rumney, New Hampshire, which he co-founded with his wife Louise. For more information on Thom Hartmann, please visit https://www.thomhartmann.com For more information on this podcast, please visit https://www.adhdisover.com

JUDGED & BULLIED is a beautiful conversation about the challenging childhood of our guest Edward Zepeda Menchavez Jr aka Ejay, who was diagnosed, labeled, and medicated as a child. Ejay has since peeled off the label, joined the armed forces, fought in Afghanistan, graduated from college, and created a wonderful business that supports children and youth! He is all around an exemplary young man who's committed to making a difference with children and families. For more information on Ejay or this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com