Translating ADHD

An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Balanced Attack

This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at B and Balanced Attack.

Balanced Attack addresses ADHD tendencies around motivation. The first is our tendency to follow what is interesting and to struggle to engage with tasks that do not engage the interest based attention system we have ad ADHD people. The next is our tendency as ADHD adults to rely on urgency and the adrenaline response to urgency to motivation, especially for tasks that we cannot motivate for based on interest.

Balanced Attack is about managing tasks that are uninteresting or otherwise challenging for those of us with ADHD so that we have more time, space, and bandwidth for what matters.

The REBEL model:
Remember to remind the brain
Expand the mind
Balanced Attack
Exposure to time, to new experiences
Limit scope, start with what you know

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An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Remember to Remind the Brain

This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at R and Remember to Remind the Brain.

Remember to Remind the brain addresses the memory challenges with ADHD, and especially remembering in the moment. As ADHD people we connect and make meaning in the moment, however, we often forget what we know outside of that moment. How do we keep what is relevant front and center? What are the things that we have learned about our own ADHD experiences and what we know to be true about ourselves? This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how listeners can use Remember to Remind the brain to make these key connections in the moment in order to keep what is relevant front and center and to remember and apply what we know about ourselves.

The REBEL model:
Remember to remind the brain
Expand the mind
Balance the attack
Exposure to time, to new experiences
Limit scope, start with what you know

Episode links + resources:

• Join the Community | Become a Patron
• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Shelly

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An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Expand the Mind

This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at the first E and Expand the Mind.

For a group with wide ranging imaginations & perspectives those of us with ADHD can lock into a predetermined outcome then claim failure if our actions don't match our initial picture of success. Both Cam and Shelly discuss how Expand the Mind was instrumental in giant leaps forward as coaches and as neurodivergent souls.

The REBEL model:
Remember to remind the brain
Expand the mind
Balance the attack
Exposure to time, to new experiences
Limit scope, start with what you know

Episode links + resources:

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• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Shelly

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ADHD PoC Voices: Rhashidah Perry Jones Shares on ADHD Advocacy in Black Communities

This week we are delighted to present another special episode dedicated to exploring the lived experiences of people of color with ADHD by presenting an interview with ADHD Parent Advocate and Coach Rhashidah Perry Jones.

Rhashidah has spent the last 20 years educating parents and individuals with ADHD through her work with CHADD. Rhashidah is an executive with a non-profit organization addressing fair housing issues and homelessness in the greater Philadelphia area.

Join Cam in exploring Rhashidah’s own education in learning about ADHD through raising her own child and the obstacles and opportunities facing communities of color. This conversation is a powerful testament to the value of optimism, resilience, courage and hope.

Episode links + resources:

• Find Rhashidah Perry Jones
• Rhashidah’s Book
• ADHD Coach Inger Shaye Colzie Interview
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An ADHD Productivity Tool: REBEL and Limit Scope

This week Cam and Shelly continue their discussion on competence and confidence diving into Cam’s productivity tool REBEL by taking a closer look at L and Limit Scope. Those of us with ADHD know a thing or two about over committing and over-extending.

Limit Scope is all about knowing your limits, limiting what comes onto your plate and how to effectively move things to completion. Cam pulls out the metaphorical stops on this episode with melon patches, half baked cakes and stairwells with one key missing element.

The REBEL model:
Remember to remind the brain
Expand the mind
Balance the attack
Exposure to time, to new experiences
Limit scope, start with what you know

Episode links + resources:

• Join the Community | Become a Patron
• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Shelly

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Developing Competence and Confidence through Practice

As ADHD adults we often undermine ourselves in the areas of building confidence and competence. We find ourselves overwhelmed with choices in these areas, not knowing where to start or which actions will serve us best.

This week, Cam and Shelly discuss how ADHD adults can help us develop confidence and competence and introduce a model for this practice that we will break down in detail over the next several episodes.

The REBEL model:
Remember to remind the brain
Expand the mind
Balance the attack
Exposure to time, to new experiences
Limit scope, start with what you know

Episode links + resources:

• Join the Community | Become a Patron
• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Shelly

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Beyond Imposter Syndrome: Cultivating Confidence and Competence

This week, Cam and Shelly continue our conversation on ADHD and Imposter Syndrome by examining how listeners can begin to move beyond Imposter Syndrome.

In addition to naming and distinguishing Imposter Syndrome when it is happening, there are ways that we can develop supports for ourselves as ADHD adults to be able to more readily step out of Imposter Syndrome. Today, we look at the concept of a skill development practice to develop confidence and competence as one critical support here.

 

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ADHD and Imposter Syndrome

This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of Imposter Syndrome. This topic comes up frequently both in our client work and in our Discord community.

Imposter Syndrome tends to show up despite evidence to the contrary. Using examples from our own experiences and our client work, we discuss why this happens for those of us with ADHD brains and how listeners can recognize and create change around Imposter Syndrome for themselves.

 

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• About Cam and Shelly

 

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Grieving for our Past Selves after an ADHD Diagnosis

This week, Cam and Shelly dive into the topic of grieving our past selves. As coaches, we often work with people who come to us with a new ADHD diagnosis, and with that diagnosis comes new context. With that context comes both the awareness that there are real reasons that we struggle, and the grief for our past selves as we wonder what might have been different had we known sooner that we have ADHD brains.

We then discuss how grieving our past selves as ADHD adults isn't a process we go through once, but rather a process that will happen many times as we do our own understand, own, and translate work. We bring in client examples and metaphors to illustrate how and when this type of grief shows up and how listeners can recognize this grief for what it is and begin to work through it.

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• About Cam and Shelly

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Revisiting our ADHD Cause and Effect Metaphor: How to Use this Model to Create Change

This week, Cam and Shelly finish a series of episodes to revisit the Cause and Effect metaphor that we presented in episodes ten and eleven. In this episode, we bring the component parts of the metaphor we've discussed in the last few weeks together to show the whole picture.

In addition to discussing how the metaphor comes together, we discuss the bigger purpose the Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect metaphor. This metaphor is a more detailed version of our Understand, Own, Translate process. The goal of both frameworks is to discuss how ADHD people can most effectively create long lasting change.

Mt. Rainier Metaphor Illustration:

Cam's illustration of our Mt. Rainier Cause and Effect Metaphor.

Episode links + resources:

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• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Shelly

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