Parenting ADHD Kids and Teens
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It can feel overwhelming and scary when you find out your kiddos are diagnosed with ADHD...so join Amanda and Rachel as we help you learn the keys to parenting for your neurodivergent kids! One key is getting ADHD informed! The more you know about how your child's ADHD brain works so that you can enter into their way of thinking to move more in flow with them than thinking typical ADHD brain differences are a problem or a deficiency, which can result in unintentional shame on your kiddos. It's also really critical to understand the genetic role in ADHD. It...
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What is Neurodivergence Anyway? ADHD in Couples and Relationships
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Listen in on part 4 of the ADHD side quest as Amanda and Rachel talk about what it's like to date, mate and relate when one or both partners have ADHD. A huge difference is the way the love cocktail-yes the Love Cocktail-affects the ADHD brain differently and for a different period of time than it affects people with a more neurotypical brain. Because the chemicals in the love cocktail are natural stimulants, love can have an addictive quality for people with ADHD, and then the cocktail wains in the partner's absence, creating biochemical withdrawal. and this can...
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What is Neurodivergence Anyway? ADHD in Men
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This is part 3 of of 6 on our Neurodivergent side quest, how ADHD affects boys and men. While women get “lost in the diagnostic shuffle”, boys tend to get diagnosed early on because with testosterone they tend to be more likely to have the hallmark Hyperactivity and Impulsivity. They’re more likely to be the kids that just can’t sit still in class and blurt out answers, but while they’re more easily diagnosed, they tend to bear so much more shame over the years. So often when men come to counseling dealing with ADHD in adulthood they’ll lament “I just don’t think...
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What is Neurodivergence Anyway? ADHD in Women
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Amanda is joined by Rachel Cunningham-two women with ADHD talking about how ADHD affects women specifically. It’s not uncommon for girls and women to be misdiagnosed as ADHD presents differently for girls than boys, so many women find out later in life they their lifelong struggles are actually ADHD related. Amanda and Rachel share some of their own life experiences with time blindness, co-occurring anxiety, and increase rejection sensitivity. Learn common ADHD struggles as women progress through life into adulthood and motherhood and the role of shame in their lives and how Rachel and...
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Episode 39: What is Neurodivergence Anyway?
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Join Amanda as she embarks on a neurodivergent side quest with her neurodivergent bestie and fellow RCCA counselor Rachel Cunningham. Neurodivergence is a term that typically refers to people who have ADHD and/or autism and have a neurodivergent rather than neurotypical brain. This particular neurodivergent side quest focuses on ADHD-and mirrors an ADHDers hyper focus special interest topic, where we with ADHD go down a rabbit hole on a novel favorite topic! Learn specifically what is ADHD, how dopamine affects the brain and the ADHD brain in particular, and begin to understand how...
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A List of Holiday To Do’s and To Don’ts
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Happy Holidays from us at Soul Healing Love! Amanda is joined by Rachel Cunningham, a fellow therapist at Rodgers Christian Counseling with a helpful list of Do’s and Don’ts for the Holiday season. Often times we enter the Holidays with unrealistic expectations and hopes for change that aren’t based in reality. What you can expect of Uncle Joe is that he will mostly do what he’s always done. Listen in for tips about how to have realistic expectations, topics to avoid and others to focus on, and ways to decide what are the healthiest boundaries for you to set with friends and family...
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Episode 37: What are you Grieving?
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From the Archive…Listen to Amanda share thoughts on facing Grief. First, the grief that we all have faced in the years since Covid and all we lost living through a global pandemic. And then more recently as a nation we have faced mass shootings and natural disasters. In life, we are constantly faced with hardships and loss. Amanda walks through the famous stages of grief as defined by the work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and shares how to walk through each stage of grief. Grieving is facing the emotions-the Energy in Motion-in our minds and bodies as we heal by feeling. We have to...
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Episode 36: “Are you feeling Suicidal?”: How to Intervene When You Fear Someone is Struggling
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Amanda is joined again by two of the amazing minds behind For Students, an organization dedicated to equipping students with tools for lifelong emotional health and suicide prevention. If you missed the tragic story of how Executive Director Whitney D’Allaird turned her pain into purpose after losing her oldest son Tyler to suicide, please listen to Episode 35. In this episode, Amanda talks again with Whitney and also For Students Programming Director Ed Williams on the talk that is at the heart of everything they do: Suicide Awareness and Prevention. They share their OARS method that they...
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Episode 35: Inside Suicide Prevention Month Part 1
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TRIGGER WARNING: there is discussion of suicide, suicidal thoughts and other issues around the topic of suicide. Join Amanda as she talks with two amazing guests. She’s joined by two great minds behind For Students, an organization dedicated to equipping students with tools for lifelong emotional health and suicide prevention. Whitney D’Allaird is a wife, mother first and also Executive Director of this amazing organization. And Ed Williams is a former teacher and student leader turned Programming Director with For Students. Whitney and Ed share about the vision behind For Students...
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Episode 34: What is the Story you are telling yourself?
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We all have conscious and unconscious stories, reels, automatic reactions that are pasty of a bigger story we tell ourself. Brene brown describes a cu flight she had with her husband and from that fight forward they always say “the story I’m telling myself right now is…” So what stories are you telling yourself? That are actually part of a current neural network that you can change. Dr. Bev recounts some of the soul wound stories she heard spoken over her and how she began to rewrite her brain. And Dr. Tom shares wisdom he read of years ago that said “we view life through the...
info_outlineTRIGGER WARNING: there is discussion of suicide, suicidal thoughts and other issues around the topic of suicide.
Join Amanda as she talks with two amazing guests. She’s joined by two great minds behind For Students, an organization dedicated to equipping students with tools for lifelong emotional health and suicide prevention. Whitney D’Allaird is a wife, mother first and also Executive Director of this amazing organization. And Ed Williams is a former teacher and student leader turned Programming Director with For Students.
Whitney and Ed share about the vision behind For Students and Whitney shares her family’s story of loss of her beloved oldest son Tyler. She shares her pain, her grief and how ultimately this led her to start an organization in hopes that no parent would ever feel her pain again.
Amanda leads a discussion around coming myths of suicide—things like “no one will miss me, I’m a burden, and suicidal ideas are just a means to get attention”—to help people further understand the complexity behind a person’s desire to take their own life.
Whitney and Ed offer insights into how they’ve had firsthand experience with students to help
More people understand how to face suicidal thoughts in themselves and loved ones in hopes that their pain can be met and transformed.
To learn more about Whitney and Ed’s mission please visit www.ForStudents.org or Instagram @forstudentsclt
If you yourself are thinking of taking your own life, please right now call a trusted friend, call 988, AND text TALK to 741741. Yes, please do all 3!! Because we promise whatever thoughts your suicidal self are telling you are not true. You are a life worth saving and you deserve to hear that from at least 3 sources! And… keep fighting! You are not alone.