Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

Why are transitions so hard with ADHD? Big ones, little ones, rare ones, daily ones, it seems like changing context from one to the next is like running through three feet of mud when everyone else is floating on air.It might be your big transitions — holidays, vacations, big blocks of time. It might be little transitions — leaving for work, coming home. It might be micro-transitions — going to sleep, waking up. It might even be surprise transitions — transitions you didn't know were coming at all. Whatever the kind of transition you struggle with, you're not alone in that struggle if you're living with ADHD. This week, we're talking all about transitions, and have some tips for you to make your transitions a little bit easier.Don't forget: It's not too late to check out ADHD Group Coaching and get yourself signed up today! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (06:01) - The Trouble with Transitions (07:04) - What is a "transition"? (16:02) - Unconscious Transitions (19:21) - Using James Ochoa's Pressure Breathing Technique for Transitions (23:18) - The Transition Day (26:17) - Planning to Help Transitioning (27:34) - Get up and Move! (28:12) - Alarms and Reminders! 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

James Ochoa is a licensed professional counselor dedicated to treating, understanding and exploring adult ADHD. He lives with ADHD himself and has long demonstrated his introspection and exploration through his work and writing. His book, Focused Forward, gifted us a whole set of new language when we talk about our relationship with ADHD and we’re thrilled he’s back to check in with us today, his SEVENTH appearance on The ADHD Podcast.And why is he here? Because he’s devoted his work lately on using breathing to interrupt negative patterns. As James tells us, breathing is the only autonomic system in the human body which we can exert direct control over. If we’re not thinking about it, breathing just happens. But if we do think about it, we can speed it up, slow it down, even stop it for a spell. So how do you use it to teach your body some new tricks? We’ll learn from James today!Check out James’ Town Hall SeriesJames’ Professional Trailblazing: A New Roadmap for Treating Adult ADHDCheck out Shiny Merch! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:27) - Support the show: Become a Patron! (03:45) - Group Coaching is Back! (06:29) - Introducing James Ochoa (08:17) - Breathing as a Pattern Interrupt (16:47) - The CO Model (23:48) - What is Safe Self-Resourcing? (31:07) - The Five Breath Pressure Technique (34:05) - James walks us through the exercise (41:08) - State Change (45:11) - Learn more 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dr. Lola Day is a busy mother, double-boarded physician, lifestyle strategist, and ADHD-trained life coach for ambitious women. She is a case example for people living with ADHD who want to accomplish more in their lives, tame their hyperfocus, and tune their internal engines.But she's found that along the way, what she runs into the most with her ADHD clients is a standard of achievement defined by stress and burnout, women dedicated to results at significant cost to their health and well-being.She believes with the right systems and strategies, all women can live wholesome, healthy, and fulfilled lives without overwhelm and without sacrificing their goals, passion, or family, and she joins us this week to talk about how she channels her work into LollieTasking!Links & NotesLollieTaskingConnect with Dr. Lola Day on Twitter (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:15) - Support the Show: Become a Patron! (03:13) - Sponsor: TextExpander (05:24) - Group Coaching is Coming Back to TCA! (06:29) - Introducing Dr. Lola Day (11:51) - What toll, ADHD? (15:46) - Adapting to ADHD (19:26) - Adding more to a full boat (27:11) - Working with Women (31:29) - Rest (36:42) - Balance and Delegation (43:39) - LollieTasking (45:34) - Learn More! 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

You live with ADHD, so you know what it feels like to be stuck. But what happens when you tell an ADHD coach what you're going through? You get a whole new way to think about moving forward!It all starts with that feeling of shame and embarrassment that comes under the weight of the tasks you feel you have not completed. That’s how this particular episode started, in fact, a set of conversations Nikki has had recently with clients feeling this same thing. To get to the other side of it, we journey through that shame, the language of limiting beliefs, and come out the other side with a change to how we tell the stories of ourselves.  (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:10) - Support the Show: Become an ADHD Community Member! (03:33) - What to do when you don't know what to do 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Tommy Metz III is a filmmaker and storyteller in Los Angeles, CA. He directed the feature film ‘30 Nights’, and his latest short ‘Static’ is going to be playing in festivals starting next month. He’s also an anxiety-riddled mess and co-host of What’s That Smell? A Sometimes-Funny Podcast about Humans and Their Anxieties. He’s here because he was dragged to be here in an effort to follow up on the last time he was here in May 2019.Our purpose today? We’ve talked about emotional storms in the past, credited to James Ochoa. To start us off this week: what do you do when the anxiety storm hits, the cannonball of fear in your stomach? What causes it, connects those experiences, and how do you get to the other side of it?Along the way, we talk about our “favorite” anxieties that have come up on the WTS podcast. We talk about the contagion that is anxiety and how easy it is to personalize others' anxieties and make them our own. Finally, we share a segment from episode one of the seventh season of What’s That Smell at the very end of this week’s show! (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (02:12) - Support the show: Become a Patron at patreon.com/theadhdpodcast (03:34) - Introducing Tommy Metz (05:25) - Exploring the Anxiety Cannonball (20:30) - Talking about talking about anxiety (22:15) - The Anxiety Contagion (27:45) - "Favorite" Anxieties (36:57) - WTS7 (41:02) - Special: A bit from WTS episode 7, season 1 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

How's your relationship with food? Do any emotional eating lately? Feeling that magnetic pull to McDonalds? You think there might be any ADHD hidden in there knocking away at you? Nicole DeMasi Malcher is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and founder of eatingwithADHD.com, where she helps people with ADHD stop binge-eating and learn to have a healthier relationship with food and body image and she's going to help us all out this week.Along the way, we learn about the role of a dietitian in your life and how they can help you build a better relationship with food. She helps us understand our relationship with diet, intermittent fasting and food rules, and how we can move toward healthier relationships with food by embracing gentle nutrition and intuitive eating. (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (02:40) - Support the Show: Become a Patron! (03:50) - Introducing Nicole Dimasi Malcher (07:10) - What does a dietician do? (09:18) - Dealing with ADHD grief with food (13:40) - What is disordered eating? (18:33) - Intermittent fasting (21:23) - How about vegan? Vegetarian? (27:31) - Intuitive eating and food rules (33:22) - So... what about weight loss? (38:59) - Gentle nutrition (43:22) - Replacement thinking (48:31) - Listener Question: Picky Eaters and more 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

You know how it happens. You get your diagnosis and you start the research. Before you know it, you’re in such a search for tools and strategies to help you with your ADHD that you forget to live your life. This show is our reminder to you of a few things. First, you don't have to do everything at once. In fact, you might find you adapt more quickly when you research less, try fewer new tools, and slow down your ADHD adaptation. Second, it's OK to say no to things. In fact, you might just find a sense of excitement that comes from letting go of obligations. Third, well, Pete has a thing about time blocking.  (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (02:43) - Support the Show: Become a Patron! (03:52) - Sponsor: TextExapander! (08:05) - Stop and Smell the Roses! (12:26) - You don't have to hold all the tennis balls (18:19) - Schedule Foibles are NOT a Moral Failure (21:49) - But wait... does your ADHD define you? (29:40) - JOMO & Margin (33:35) - Timeblocking Gives You Freedom 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this podcast follow-up, listeners share their preferences for managing over-talking and ADHD. Strategies for communicating without shaming or judging are discussed. Suggestions for working with kids and partners to create a conversation-sharing culture are also provided. The podcast also explores the use of code words, non-verbal cues, and physical tricks to manage over-talking. The spinning top method and a conversation game with Jenga blocks are suggested for families.

Memory is not one thing, says our guest, Dr. Ari Tuckman, and ADHD might be at the center of your struggles with each component of memory at any given time. More important than understanding that ADHD and memory are sometimes troubled partners is understanding just what you can do to improve your odds when trying to remember the important stuff.We talk about being kind to yourself and understanding that your memory challenges do not represent a moral failure! And Ari challenges head-on the notion that relying on reminders is a sign of weakness, that there is a difference between an alarm or notification and the motivation to do the thing the alarm is reminding you to do — one does not make the other a failure.Links & NotesThank you for supporting The ADHD Podcast on Patreon!Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD — Ari TuckmanAri Tuckman, PsyD, MBAADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship by Ari Tuckman (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast (03:23) - Support the Show: Become a Patron! (05:28) - Introducing Ari Tuckman (06:47) - What is Memory? (17:33) - Keeping it all in your head... (21:42) - The Alarm versus the Motiviation (25:43) - Introducing: The Awful Inner Child (40:43) - State Dependent Memory 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People with ADHD talk. And sometimes we talk a lot. We might be nervous or excited, insecure or scared; for whatever reason, these triggers cause our mouths to go right into overdrive. This week on the show, Nikki and Pete talk about over-talking. What happens in social situations when you find yourself over-sharing? How about parties in which you reveal sensitive information? And have you ever been in a group conversation and didn't realize you were monopolizing the show? We've all been there, and this week we want to try to dissect why. Links & NotesADHD Communication HacksAm I Talking Too Much? How I'm Teaching my Brain to ListenDon't Just Talk, CommunicateBeing Social and Making Friends as an Adult with ADHD (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast! (02:38) - Support the Show: Become a Member! (06:44) - Sponsor: TextExpander (10:45) - ADHD & Over-Talking 🎓 College Coaching for ADHD Students is Now Enrolling!Starting college with ADHD? Don’t go it alone. At Take Control ADHD, we offer two personalized coaching options to help students thrive both academically and emotionally. The Roadmap Planning Package includes two pre-semester strategy sessions to build custom calendars, break down big assignments, and create ADHD-friendly systems for success. For ongoing support, our Weekly Coaching Package offers one-on-one accountability throughout the semester to stay focused, flexible, and in control.Learn more and find the right fit at https://takecontroladhd.com/college. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★