A podcast on coping and connecting in our crazy-busy world. Experts discuss mental health, focus, tech overload, and more.

Joined October 2015
New episode alert! René talks to ADHD Dietician Becca King about binge eating and other ADHD-related food issues. distractionpodcast.com/2021/… @blkgirllostkeys
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Identify Your Conative Strengths to Find the Right Job dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3…
No interviewer EVER will top the introduction that @jbey just gave me, so just know that. It was SUCH an honor to kick it with you on the radio today! Y’all head right here and click on rhe latest episode of Sex, Politics, and Religion: wpfwfm.org/radio/programming…
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While guest hosting @Distraction_pod, I chatted with @HeatherDubrow about how to avoid the "mom guilt" trap. Don't feel like you need to be there for everything - your kids won't care! Listen to our full conversation here: distractionpodcast.com/2021/…
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Being told that I'm 'so random' is one of my pet-peeves. I AM still on the same topic, but my brain is going through hundreds of possible scenarios so fast that other people can't see the connection and assume I went off-topic. Funny enough, other ADHDers see that connection
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“Takiwatanga” is the Maori word for autism and it means “In their own time and space”.
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When you’re Black & hear all the time how you just gotta “pray it away” and “concentrate” you think that’s what you should do to get better. The problem is we’ve NEVER had a safe space to explore ADHD or in my case know it existed until I had my own kids. Even now I downplay it
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The Increased Risk of Addiction When You Have ADHD dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3…
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Jessica from How to ADHD Talks About Why Exercise Is Important dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3…
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ADHDers often get stuck in a mental prison of inactivity. Our brain screams for us to move, pleading "just do the thing!" But we're unable to act, trapped in a state of ADHD inertia. My 10 favorite ADHD tweets/threads of the week:
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How to Turn Down the Temp on a Heated Conversation dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3…
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Why is it always “People with ADHD can’t stick to one thing” But never “People with ADHD are good at covering a large spectrum of different subjects very quickly and picking up on what will interest them”
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