SCHOOL IS NOT FOR YOU is an episode with my guest Sean McNicholas. Sean is an ADHD therapist and mindset coach working with clients around the world. He works with various issues associated to ADHD such as anxiety, addictions and stress.
  Sean’s skillsets include being a Life Coach and a Clinical Trauma Professional using various psychotherapeutic modalities such as Hypnotherapy, CBT, NLP and RTT. He also volunteers at the Samaritans – a national organisation helping people with suicide ideation.   Sean has much experience with ADHD both personally and as a father of a child experiencing their own challenges with ADHD. Therefore, he has a vast amount of compassion, empathy, and knowledge to help people understand more about what happened to them and why they do the things they do.   Sean started his working career as the first male nursery teacher in London, then jumped into managing and owning nightclubs, before moving into in corporate finance and tech where he was featured in Forbes magazine. Sean worked in the city for over many years and has seen first-hand how employees struggle and cope with their mental health especially in high-pressure environments.   Sean also has experience with working with prisoners that have committed serious crimes such as murder and helping them to increase their self-awareness and understand the link to their behaviour. Some of these prisoners have now been released after serving 20-30 years and Sean continues to support them to help transform their lives.   Sean is now a trustee of a charity organization that is transforming the criminal justice services, to be more compassionate to and understanding of people with ADHD. For more information on Sean's work, please visit: www.adhdtherapy.coach www.newmetherapy.com For more information on our podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

I HATE BUTTONS is a short story turned metaphor about how our son Khai used to hate buttons... for 12 years... and everyone tried to label it as an autistic trait... but was it?

DEPRIVING OUR CHILDREN is a quick rant around why I strongly feel that trauma exists in order for us to help transform our mess into our message. Yet, we diagnose and medicate away our children's - our next generation's - opportunities for transformation (aka becoming who they are here to become - through healing their wounds)… and most importantly, I feel that as parents if we label and medicate our children [with ADHD], we the parents never get to dive deeper, identify our own traumas, our coping mechanisms, our addiction patterns and we don't get to heal them… in turn healing our children and dissolving these so-called symptoms of ADHD. These 'labels' keep us boxed in and they keep us and them small. Listen in and hear for yourself where you land in regard to being a conscious or unconscious parent... For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

A FRAUDULENT DIAGNOSIS is a powerful, in-depth conversation with my guest Laurie A. Couture, a Childhood Developmental Trauma and Attachment Specialist. Laurie is a licensed mental health counselor and the author of 'Instead of Medicating and Punishing' and the best seller, 'Nurturing and Empowering Our Sons'. She is developing The Couture Protocol, an evidence-based, whole-child program of treating developmental and generational trauma in children, youths, and their families. Laurie provides consulting, presentations, training, and research reports to industries, agencies, and programs that directly serve children, youths, and families. Laurie discovered early in her professional career that our society's institutions are out of alignment with nature's intent for children's developmental and attachment needs. What concerned her most was that the institutions in which she worked--behavioral healthcare, education, social services, and juvenile justice--generally reacted to children's alarm signals with labels and behavioral/biochemical interventions that caused more developmental distress. She observed that boys especially suffered and withered in these institutions, as their needs and natural alarm signals were met with denial, hostility, or punishment. For more information on Laurie’s work, visit https://laurieacouture.com Her books are available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Instead-Medicating-Punishing-Childrens-Acting-Out/dp/1932279970/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Empowering-Sons-Laurie-Couture-ebook/dp/B0BZ1F9SK2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1679945003&sr=1-3 Quotes mentioned by Laurie during our interview: “I want to sell drugs to everyone. I want to sell drugs to healthy people. I want drugs to sell like chewing gum.” —Henry Gadsden, former CEO of Merck, Fortune magazine, 1976 “The way to sell drugs is to sell psychiatric illness.” —Carl Elliot, University of Minnesota Bioethicist (In Shankar Vedantam, July 16, 2001, The Washington Post) For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

IT'S NOT A DEFICIT was inspired by a recent instagram post with an interview with Human Biologist Gary Brecka. Deficit vs. Overload... listen in for yourself... More on Gary Brecka: https://www.garybrecka.com/about The Video mentioned in this podcast: https://youtube.com/shorts/FaQJxeP5lEE?si=EUZ6gKOD3CrBzGDe More on Thom Hartmann and his 'Hunter vs. Farmer' theory: https://www.thomhartmann.com/articles/2007/11/thom-hartmanns-hunter-and-farmer-approach-addadhd

EXCLUSIVE: Join us on August 19th, 2023 at 9AM PST for our first monthly Zoom Session! Gather with like-minded conscious parents and engage in an alternative dialogue around ADHD, education, parenting, trauma healing and more. Every month we will select topics and questions submitted by podcast listeners from around the world and discuss them in our Zoom sessions - a group setting designed to empower parents to make informed decisions for their children. Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals or Therapists. ADHD IS OVER is not a proven scientific method nor an FDA approved treatment for what the DSM currently calls ADHD. Our approach simply is an invitation to what we feel is a much needed perspective shift around a disempowering label. It is a ‘what if’ consideration and an alternative approach to a dilemma that even today’s mainstream experts don’t have all the answers to. So we say: Why not try a different approach? Why not flip the script? Especially if it resonates with us - the parents. We know our children better than any expert! We are intuitive beings after all and if we trust our internal guidance system, we can perhaps find the answers that we are looking for. For more information on our podcast, the documentary or to download our free ADHD DIAGNOSIS SURVIVAL GUIDE, please visit www.adhdisover.com

HEALING HONESTLY is an episode with special guest Alisa Zipursky. Alisa is a writer, coach, speaker, and childhood sexual abuse survivor advocate. She is the author of Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame, the first survivor-to-survivor book to support people healing from childhood sexual abuse from a major publisher since 1988. Healing Honestly has been praised for it's candid, funny, and compassionate approach to healing from sexual violence. Alisa is the founder of HealingHonestly.com where she writes about her experiences as a millennial woman trying to live a full life while healing from her abuse with a community of over 500,000 other survivors from around the world. Along with offering coaching programs, Alisa travels the country speaking at college campuses and conferences to support survivors and the people who love them. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Allure, and Hey Alma. For more information on Healing Honestly, visit www.healinghonestly.com Get the book: https://a.co/d/4krshG7 The article that lead me to Alisa's work: https://healinghonestly.com/memory/freud-was-right-about-childhood-sexual-abuse-until-he-was-disastrously-wrong-about-it/ For more information on our podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

ROMAN TURNED OUT is an episode with my guest - "Actor/Model, Bodybuilder, and High Performance Coach” - Roman Fischer. Roman does film acting, voiceovers, fitness modeling, bodybuilding competitions and even helps transform people's minds and bodies! As a young child, Roman was diagnosed with ADHD but overcame it through his healthy lifestyle of clean nutrition and exercise after getting off of ADHD meds. Today, he enjoys not only the artistic work in his life but also the humanitarian aspects of his work as well, with helping others level up! For more information on Roman's work, visit www.romanfischerofficial.com

WHY SCIENCE IS NOT AS REAL AS 'THEY' SAY... is a quick episode around the ignorance and high-and-mightiness of so called 'authorities' and experts when it comes to the truth... or 'real' as they call it. Doctors used to advertise cigarettes, Scientists deemed Deed safe to be sprayed in the streets while kids played, Religious leaders still believe the only access to God is through their religions and churches... and so on! We have to wake up to the reality that anyone who tells us that they have the absolute truth and that 'the results are in'... is simply ignorant and lying. Hear for yourself how science has misled us many times before, yet still claims that it is 'real... For more information about this movement and podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

WHY A DIAGNOSIS IS JUST A DIAGNOSIS is a short episode about the possibility of 'disappearing' any disease or disorder... Think we're crazy by saying this? Think again... or listen in and see for yourself. For more information and to download our free 'ADHD Diagnosis Survival Guide, please visit www.adhdisover.com