ADHD Big Brother - ADHD and Depression Solutions, Laughter, and Thoughts

Inside our skull spaghetti is more often than not a nonstop tsunami of chaos, and trying to figure out how to get it out in the most effective way possible is a huge pain in the ass. I'm here to help. Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

ADHD always comes with a side dish. Mine is depression. Dr. Sandra's is anxiety, and she and I had a wonderful conversation about anxiety, some strategies that can work for it, and we even got to learn about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Great conversation! Dr. Sandra is a licensed psychologist, anxiety specialist, and mental health advocate. She is on a mission to make evidence-based anxiety support as accessible as possible through Embrace Now - her community membership platform. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University and was trained extensively in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills. She also has personal experience with both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and ADHD. To learn more about her community, check out https://www.embrace-now.org. She is currently offering a FREE trial for the "founding" members of her community called "Early Embracers" *********************** Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

How many of you are so overwhelmed by to do lists because they seem to grow faster than you can tick items off of it? Let's talk about that today! Quick summary: 1) Put everything in one place 2) Organize it/Categorize it 3) Prioritize it 4) Schedule it 5) Put it in a container of time for your sanity 6) Use your ADHD tools and strategies to chip away! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

I was so fortunate to be educated by the great Dr. Shane Calhoun of Calhoun Counseling Services. He explains the neurochemicals better than I've ever heard and he simplifies it perfectly for my skull spaghetti. Dr. Shane Calhoun is a Clinical Health Psychologist who specializes in Adult ADHD. He has several masters degrees and graduated with his doctorate from Loma Linda University in 2012. He has been licensed for over a decade and in the last year he left his position as the Training Director at Cal Poly Humboldt to invest in the neurodiverse community through his private practice. He has been guest host on both radio and podcasts helping people in the neurodiverse community advance on their own personal wellness journeys. You can find more information about him on his profile on Psychology Today. He also runs ADHD counseling groups and one is starting on the 9th of July. They will be accepting new members into the foreseeable future and would love it if you reached out. Enrollment is ongoing so check in at any time. If a group fills up, he will form a new one. His Psychology Today profile will have more information on how you can contact him as well as his personal website at CalhounCounselingServices.com More from Dr. Shane: I have been a good fit for individuals looking for a supportive space to address anxiety and depression, needing movement in developing new coping strategies, seeking a deeper level of wellness and balance, or identity development. I have often found that I work well with those who have found therapy unhelpful in the past and are looking to give it another try. I also recognize that counseling is a different experience for those who identify as ADHD or ASD. The neuro-diverse culture is an area that I have experience in and that I find meaningful to work with. Some difficulties are a necessary part of our journey to live meaningfully, but not all of them. We can let go of unhelpful ways of coping and create new habits, making this journey more meaningful and goal oriented. Each story is unique and no solution universal. I look forward to hearing your unique experience so we can explore what wellness means for you. If you are curious about whether we are a good fit, let's have a 15 minute consultation and figure that out together. ************************************** Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Mentioned in this episode was the Kolbe A Index, which you can find on their main website. Here's the link where you can learn more about it: https://www.kolbe.com/kolbe-a-index The free webinar will be June 29,2024. Link below: Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Ever heard of PVRAD? That's on the docket today! I have a raging case of this disorder and the outbreaks are sucktastical! But I have some ideas! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

I mentioned a few things in here today, so I figure I'll do some linking. The books I mentioned, which you can search for are: "The Happiness Trap" by Russ Harris, and "Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before" by Dr. Julie Smith. Also here is the link to the talk on Insight Timer app for "Strategies for Ruminators" Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

I appreciate it so much when you guys send me emails. And I was recently inspired by a listener who shared something she would do as a single mother when trying to keep the home relatively clean. The checklist she mentioned: 1. Go through every room and only throw away any garbage you see. 2. Do The same with recyclables and put in bag. 3. Go through every room and pick up any dishes, cups, and utensils and put in sink. 4. Go through every room and put away shoes. 5. Do the same with any clothes or towels and put away or in dirty laundry pile 6. Do the same with books, magazines, mail and paperwork that is out of place. TAKE A BREAK and have some diet coke and potato chips 7. Wash the dishes and wipe down the counters and stove top. 8. Put a load of laundry in the washer. 9. Vacuum floors. 10. Clean toilet and wipe down sink in bathroom. And here was my amended one for my apartment that I tried: 1. Empty/load dishwasher and run if full. 2. Go through every room and collect dirty dishes, put in dishwasher or sink. 3. Go through every room and only throw out garbage. 4. Go through every room and put away shoes. 5. Do the same with any clothes or towels and put away or in dirty laundry. 6. Do the same with books, mail, paperwork that is out of place. 7. Organize the bookshelves 8. Make bed 9. Wipe down kitchen counters and stove. 10. Clean toilet and wipe down sink and counter. 11. Organize bathroom counter 12. Vacuum rugs Done and Done! Give this a try and let me know how it goes. Or if you have a checklist of your own you'd like to share, please reach out, I'd love to hear it! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Do you ever think how things would be so much better if you just had a "system" in place...for whatever things are frustrating you? Well, let's talk about these systems! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

I have some ideas on handling that ADHD hurdle of transitions. This is what works for me...sometimes...what works for you? Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

If you go to therapy, you still gotta do the work. If you hire a coach, you have to do the work. You purchase a course - do the work. Read a self improvement book? Did you do the work? Why is the work so hard?! I have some thoughts... Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

There's so much hope the day before. It's the day of that tends to host all those struggles. Let's unravel that knotted up extension cord and straighten things out. Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

We can put so much effort into just getting started on crappy tasks that it can be such a pain in the butt to find ourselves getting distracted two minutes into the task. ADHD can really be fun sometimes, can't it?! UGH-tastic! I have some thoughts on that... Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

ADHDers have interest-wired brains. So it stands to reason that if things aren't fun, or interesting, we'd have a hard time getting going on them. And yet, there are many aspects of life that are ultra-boring....and we still want to be able to do those things. Thank god there's such a thing as gamification! Let's talk about what that can look like Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Does that happen to you? You really get going on a project, a goal, a dream, and suddenly the juice is gone. For me, it's very dramatic and feels like I'm a failure, or that this isn't meant to be anymore, or that I'll have to just wait until the juice comes back. Today I'm talking about what I do to move forward when the juice is gone. Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Well this has been an interesting turn of events. Getting laid off is such a bizarre, unsettling experience. I'll share how it went down for me, and maybe in all this there is a takeaway nugget...or not...we shall see. Mentioned in the podcast: Let's get our sh*t together...together, join the ADHD Big Brother Community and if you join this April, use coupon code APRIL25 for $25 off your first subscription payment! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

On today's episode, I called the amazing Dr. Matthew Zakreski, PsyD. If anybody can help us with our imposter syndrome, it's him. You'll see why. He's brilliant. And funny! To get in touch with Dr. Matt: For Therapy - https://www.theneurodiversitycollective.com For Speaking Engagements - https://www.drmattzakreski.com Follow him on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/drmattzakreski Here's his bio: Matthew “Dr. Matt” Zakreski, PsyD is a high energy, creative clinical psychologist and professional speaker who utilizes an eclectic approach to meet the specific needs of his neurodivergent clients. He is proud to serve the Gifted community as a consultant, a professor, an author, and a researcher. He has spoken over 400 times all over the world about supporting neurodivergent kids. Dr. Zakreski is a member of Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC), and Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE). Dr. Zakreski graduated from Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology (IGCP) in 2016. He is the co-founder of The Neurodiversity Collective ************************************** Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Getting started on crappy tasks can be very difficult, like trying to push open a concrete door. Let's discuss how to get that door open! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

Every time I sit down to do a brain dump, to get everything out of my head like a good adult with ADHD...EVERY TIME I do that, my thoughts run and hide. Let's discuss a possible rethinking about our thinking about brain dumping... Mentioned in the podcast: ADHD Big Brother Community Free Sign up Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here

This week I started exploring barriers to doing tasks, and I ended up talking about affirmations, taskfirmations, dopamine and a new thing to try to get more in alignment with the ideal vision we have of ourselves. Reach out via the links below and let me know what you think! Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! Find out the power of leveraging community-driven, gamified accountability. Try it with my 7-day money back no risk thingy-ma-bob! Click here to learn more about the ADHD Big Brother Community New Webinar dates added! "How ADHDers Can Do Sh*tty Things" - 30 minutes of how it's done, and 30 minutes of fun Q&A! Bring your juicy ADHD struggles and we can discuss it! Click here to register Goal Digger: The Long Term Goal Game Now Avaliable. Click here to get moving on your long-term goals! Interested in working with me One-One? I've opened two spots! Learn more here