Dr B's Musings & Living Beyond ADHD Podcast
Feeling overwhelmed isn’t automatically a positive or a negative experience; it depends on the emotion and on the meaning you give to the emotion you’re feeling. You could be overwhelmed with gratitude and self-love or overwhelmed with grief and shame.
The meaning I give overwhelmed is that i...
2020 has been a roller coaster. As the end of the year approaches, many holidays are coming up — yet some people are asking themselves what there is to celebrate.
It depends on where you look, because what you focus on grows.
You could start with the little things. As I always say, it’s important ...
Being an Achiever isn’t just about developing your EF Skills; you also need to become the person who is the Achiever, instead of thinking of yourself as the person who is the ADDer. Saying “I am an Achiever” is the first step to taking on an empowering new Identity, just as saying “I am an ADD...
Is perfectionism preventing you from making deadlines or finishing projects?
For some people, it keeps them from even getting started.
Procrastination is a symptom of something else. It’s a behavior that results from something going on in our heads preventing us from taking action.
One of the ...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ripple effect.
Like a drop in a pool of water, our lives touch other lives. We don’t really know how one action might affect someone else down the road.
Mother Teresa famously said, “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But...
According to government stats, last updated in 2018, there are a lot of unhappy people that are suffering in the world. In the U.S. alone:
- 32 million people suffer from anxiety
- 17 million suffer from depression
- Around 12 million suffer from PTSD
And, according to Forbes magazine, the Se...
I have something a little different for you today. In case you missed listening to my interview with Meredith for Real: The Curious Introvert, she was kind enough to share the episode with me, so I could share it with you all directly. I love responding to questions and thoroughly enjoyed my i...
I love responding to questions and enjoyed being interviewed by Meredith for Real so much that I decided to change the format of my show to focusing on a topic and responding to questions about it.
If my podcast show is the first time you’ve been hearing about executive function skills and st...
For those of you who don’t know me yet …
Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
That was me; living the majority of my academic life believing I was stupid, an...
We have a multi-dimensional mental health problem in the world. Many professionals aren’t trained to recognize nor address issues with ADHD or executive function training. Our family members might have had the same challenges we experience and just made the best of them. And of course, whatever t...
