ADHD IS OVER!

REBECCA TURNED OUT sheds light on Rebecca Blake's journey from getting diagnosed with ADHD later in life, wrestling her way through college on a cocktail of stimulant drugs all the way to trying to find a rhythm and a focus needed to live a fulfilled life. Today, Rebecca is a teacher, artist, online class specialist, video editor, and spiritual life coach living in Los Angeles, CA. Navigating life...

PARENTS AS EXPERTS is a recent episode my wife Tatiana and I recorded, after having countless discussions on how parents know their children better than anyone... including many so-called 'experts'. How many times have we heard parents say they should've trusted their initial gut feelings... or how they trusted an expert and in the end it turned out to be the wrong treatment for their child... Joi...

WHITNEY TURNED OUT is a beautiful episode about the life of Whitney Jude, an entrepreneur, and fitness coach who helps people transform not only their bodies but also their minds. Growing up, Whitney was always very independent, the kinda 'don't tell me what do do' child. After she was put on stimulant drugs and later a cocktail of drugs to get her to be 'normal' and 'happy', Whitney spiraled into...

ADHD, PTSD & SEXUAL TRAUMA is a heart-breaking yet powerful episode with my guest Bianca Rose. Bianca vulnerably shared with me how her own sexual abuse during her childhood led to her misdiagnosis with all sorts of 'disorders' such as anxiety, depression and how she was put on a cocktail of medications as a young child. What followed was a downward spiral of alcohol & drug abuse, sexual promiscui...

BOYS LACK INITIATIONS is a powerful episode with Philip Folsom. Philip is an Anthropologist, Culture Development expert, and president & CEO of Wolf Tribe. In addition, he is the co-founder of VALOR, a PTS and resiliency program for warriors and first responders. Philip is known for his unique adventure programming and Tribe workshop that focuses on the primary culture components of building healt...

ANTHROPOLOGISTS QUESTION ADHD is an episode in which I share my personal thoughts on a recent article (May 2020) by biological anthropologists Kristen Syme and Edward Hagen from Washington State University called "Researchers call for new approach to some mental disorders". In the paper, published in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, the researchers propose a new approach to mental illness th...

IT'S NOT GENETIC is a clear cut, scientific episode with genetic scientist Chris Ramsey on how mental 'disorders' such as ADHD are not 'genetic', but rather 'epigenetic'. As Dr. Bruce Lipton likes to say: "We're not victims of our hereditary blueprint, therefore we are in charge of our lives and we can change our genes through changing our environments." Chris and I talked about ADHD as a disorder...

THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH is a beautiful episode with Howard Glasser, the Founder of the Children’s Success Foundation and creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach®. He likes to think of himself as a voice for children’s greatness so that ultimately children can find their own voice of greatness. Howard’s training background is in family treatment, clinical studies and educational leadership and h...

IAN TURNED OUT is another perfect example of a young adult, Ian who was diagnosed and medicated as a child and ended up self-medicating with drugs and almost committing suicide. Luckily, he turned his life around and got himself off of the stimulant drugs that were leading him towards darkness. The notion that unmedicated children with ADHD will self-medicate later in life is simply a made-up narr...

WHERE ARE THE FATHERS is a deep exploration of the notion that fatherless households majorly impact a child's experience of the world, his or her environment, and himself or herself. Most of the time, divorces are not peaceful and conscious and the children end up in the crosshairs of two angry parents, unintentionally dragged into the drama, ultimately creating family trauma that creates in a chi...

MAD IN AMERICA is a powerful episode that aims to debunk the most common misconceptions around ADHD (it's a brain disorder, it's genetic, it's due to a chemical imbalance, Medication is the most effective treatment, etc.)with the help of Robert Whitaker. We also discussed the Russell Barkley lead 2002 'Global ADHD Consensus' and how misleading and incomplete the paper was. Whitaker is an American...

WHY IMPULSIVITY MATTERS is a delicate and textured download around impulsivity. We've all heard it before: "He's so impulsive." As if it was a bad thing. Even when we diagnose children with mental disorders such as ADHD, impulsivity is listed as one of the symptoms of this so-called 'brain disorder'. But if we have it all wrong? What if Impulsivity is actually a needed skill to hone our own intuit...

A DISEASE CALLED CHILDHOOD not only describes how we feel about the overdiagnosis of children with ADHD, but it's also the title of one of the award-winning books by Dr. Marilyn Wedge. Dr. Wedge is an award-winning family therapist and author of several books (‘Pills are not for Preschoolers’, ‘A Disease called Childhood’, to name a couple), and numerous professional articles in the field of famil...

ANDY TURNED OUT is an episode with Andrew Parry who was medicated as a child for ADHD, suggested by his school counselor at the time. Novartis, the maker of Ritalin had distributed brochures to the schools in the area promoting Ritalin as '...making kids normal again'. Andrew's mother Sue Parry (Episode 10 - Saving Andy) decided to take Andy off of the prescribed medication when he started to have...

PAYING FOR ATTENTION is an episode with Consciousness Catalyst de Vie, a deep dive into the meaning of attention, focus, concentration and most of all what it means to 'pay attention'. In the world of ADHD, we are said to have a deficit of attention. It seems to be a currency that each child owns and can give freely. But what makes a child not want to give attention? And what if that child perhaps...

HUNTERS IN A FARMER'S WORLD is a powerful episode with my friend and very special guest Thom Hartmann, an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. In the ADHD world, Thom famously authored "ADD - A Different Perception") and is the creator (proposed by him in 1978, published in 1992) of the Hunter vs. Farmer hypothesis, saying...

JUDGED & BULLIED is a beautiful conversation about the challenging childhood of our guest Edward Zepeda Menchavez Jr aka Ejay, who was diagnosed, labeled, and medicated as a child. Ejay has since peeled off the label, joined the armed forces, fought in Afghanistan, graduated from college, and created a wonderful business that supports children and youth! He is all around an exemplary young man who...

ADHD & COVID 19 is multi-fold episode about a recent Isrealy study that claims that unmedicated children with ADHD are more likely to get Covid 19. I decided to analyze what could be behind this PR stunt that's clearly unfounded (in a future episode we'll have Israeli research scientist Yaakov Ophir, Ph. D. on our show to debunk it based on real science - air date TBD). Once we got the the bottom...

SAVING ANDY is the heartfelt and heart-wrenching interview with Sue Parry, a mother whose son Andy (now in his 30's) was diagnosed in elementary school and put on medication. The severe side effects from the medication caused Andy some serious medical issues and the family was taken for a tornado-like spin, trying to figure out what was happening with their son. During our interview, it became cle...

DENYING YOUR CHILD'S REALITY is a raw and extremely insightful interivew with our guest Kelley about her childhood and how her high sensitivity and deep intuition were mistaken for ADHD. Kelley ended up being put on Adderall at the age of 14 and shortly thereafter started self-medicating and going into a downward spiral that eventually caused the extreme depression that drove her to attempt to com...

THAT FORK IN THE ROAD is an insightful episode in which my wife Tatiana and I discuss the two directions parents can go in when they're at the fork in the road - to medicate & label or not to. Find out why some parents blindly choose the label and to medicate, while others dig deeper and find alternative ways to create happy and successful lives for their children. This is the eight episode of our...

REFUSING SPECIAL EDUCATION is an episode with our special guest MARQUISE CORMIER, an author, public speaker, musical artist and fashion designer, Marquise was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7 and with the help of his grandmother who raised him they refused the ADHD label and the special ed that was recommended to them. Instead, Marquise's Grandmother decided to put him into a school for gifted childre...

BURNING DOWN THE VILLAGE is an exploration of the African Proverb "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" and how it relates to ADHD and children seeking attention from their 'village'. This is the sixth episode of our new podcast on ADHD that my wife Tatiana and I have created in order to present parents with an alternative conversation around this so-c...

PARENTS GO FIRST is about reminding parents to do the healing work themselves before labeling their child as 'broken' or making them the problem. This is the fifth episode of our new podcast on ADHD that my wife Tatiana and I have created in order to present parents with an alternative conversation around this so-called 'disorder'. Our own son Khai was diagnosed at the age of 7 and we decided to t...

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE simply explores the notion that parents could take full responsibility for their children and heal from within and it also looks into what full responsibility means as an empowering context. Not 'fault' or 'blame'... but owning what's in front of them. 100% This is the fourth episode of our new podcast on ADHD that my wife Tatiana and I have created in order to present parents w...