ADHD IS OVER!

PRISONERS OF ADHD is a damn powerful espisode with Fritzi Horstman - a fellow ADHDer and the Founder and Executive Director of CPP, the Compassion Prison Project . CPP is an organization dedicated to bringing compassion, childhood trauma awareness and creative inspiration to all men and women living and working in prisons. With 95% of the incarcerated men and women eventually returning home, Fritz...

YOUR PRESENCE IS EVERYTHING is a powerful and enlightening conversation with Author, speaker and consultant Jim Shiels. Jim is the co-founder of board meetings international, a company that specializes in parent/child retreats, using a combination of experiential education and fun activities, like surfing and other oceanfront adventures to teach vital life lessons not taught in schools. Jim's book...

HOW [NOT] TO ADHD is an exposé on how many experts out there in the 'Coping Camp' cherry-pick studies to suit their own agendas. Furthermore, many slogans and terms have been loosely thrown around by experts & activists alike. In this episode, we explore the saying "People with ADHD have a harder time with rejections", as well as "People with ADHD are more likely to end up doing drugs, get in trou...

PARENTING: THE CAUSE AND THE CURE is a powerful rant on the importance of parenting. ADHD is not genetic in the sense that it is predetermined. One can be predisposed to the traits of ADHD, but the study of epigenetics clearly shows that the environment is 100% responsible for turning on or off someone's genes. Hence, parenting is the most powerful force when consciously done to turn on or off tho...

WHERE HAVE ALL THE NORMAL CHILDREN GONE is an exploration of the term 'normal' and a look into the pathological craze of destroying the context around a normal childhood... The following is a select list of just a few of hundreds of thousands of books out there, attempting to label kids as 'not normal' or 'different': -The Virtual Child: The Terrifying Truth About What Technology is doing to Child...

FREE TO LEARN is a radically insightful conversation with Peter Gray, an American psychology researcher, and scholar. Peter is a research professor of psychology at Boston College and the author of an introductory psychology textbook. He is known for his book 'Free to Learn' (translated into 18 languages) and his work on the interaction between education and play, and his evolutionary perspective...

NO MORE PITY PARTIES IN VICTIMHOOD is an exploration of why people with ADHD aren't yet fed up with being labeled as 'disordered', 'less than normal', 'doomed for life' etc. Prior to 1973 being homosexual was considered a disorder according to the DSM... it wasn't until this minority stood up and revolted against being labeled with such non-sense. So, how come the ADHD community is just fine being...

SAY IT AIN'T SO is a short rant about my frustration with these so-called distinguished and award-winning experts who simply refuse to look under the hood when it comes to the real causes of ADHD. Children are the check engine lights of their families and experts repeatedly refuse to see what's actually going on in their environments and most of the time simply want parents to slap a band-aid on t...

ADRIAN TURNED OUT is the heart-wrenching, thrilling and ultimately wonderful and happy-ending story of entrepreneur Adrian. He told me his story from a brutal and messy divorce when he was 5, all the way to anger, drugs, run-ins with the law, arson, jail time and more... in just 1 hour we get to witness the damage that an imbalanced and traumatic upbringing can have on a child that's diagnosed wit...

COPING IS HOPING is an exploration of how human beings cannot Cope and Thrive at the same time. But if we don't wanna just cope and hope that life will work out for ourselves or our children, then what do we need to do in order to thrive as individuals and as families. Listen in on this nuanced rant around coping, hoping, and thriving and see for yourself where you stand. For more information on o...

MEN WHERE ART THOU? is a beautiful episode with Rafia Morgan on the importance of a healthy masculine role model in families so [ADHD] children can grow up feeling safe and protected and thrive. Since 1977, Rafia has been deeply involved with spiritual and personal growth work and has been working as a spiritual therapist and teacher. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1971 he recognized a need...

CARING IS ATTENTION is a beautiful episode with Dr. Stephen Cowan, MD FAAP. Dr. Cowan specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic and recurrent pediatric problems such as Attention Deficit Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Tourette's syndrome, Asthma and Allergies, Digestive Disorders, and other inflammatory disorders. Dr. Cowan completed his pediatric training at St. Luke's-Rooseve...

CRYING FOR HELP is a reflective episode on how our society's preference for financial success trumps that of our children's mental health. Don't think so? Listen in and see for yourself how you might be thinking that most parents want their children's well-being to come first... when in reality they place grades, degrees and financial success above all things family! This NBC News article inspired...

THRIVING WITH ADHD is an interview with Kelli Miller, LCSW, MSW. Kelli is a psychotherapist, radio host, and author and she's the award-winning author of “Thriving with ADHD”, which is the number one bestseller on Amazon and has won the 2019 Indie Book award in two categories.  Kelli's life story proves that families with children with ADHD can thrive, even without medication! Kelli was a co-host...

AMERICAN TRAGEDY is a rant about the recent Amazon documentary of the same title. I wanted to analyze what I thought was missing from the message of the film - love is not enough to prevent atrocities (school shootings). Listen in to see what could be missing in our society around parenting and mental health. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com For more informatio...

HIGHLY SENSITIVE CHILDREN is an episode with Dylan Rumley. Dylan has been in practice for 20 years. She sees clients all over the world. Her specialty is rapidly resolving and reducing the stress around trauma/phobias in 3-6 sessions, which usually works out to 21 days to change a pattern in the subconscious. Dylan believes we all have moments of trauma, and the resolution of these memory patterns...

ATTENTION DEPLETED CHILDREN explores the notion that if we don't give our kids the right attention, they will feel depleted of it and can't 'pay attention' elsewhere in life. They will 'act out' and we will make them the problem, versus asking ourselves why they might be 'acting out'... What if our children were like little bank accounts and the currency we deposit and withdraw is attention? Would...

THE FAMILY'S CHECK ENGINE LIGHT is an episode that looks at our innate obedient auto-pilot parenting that leads to treating our children as 'less than' adults. When we stop our transgenerational 'hand-me-down' parenting styles, our children will have more space to unfold and become their highest potential, rather than become what we mold them into - based on a fear-driven approach that hopes to ra...

NOT A MENTAL DISORDER is a follow up to episode #23 'ANTHROPOLOGISTS QUESTION ADHD'. This is an episode with biological anthropologists Kristen Syme from Washington State University, the co-author of the article "Researchers call for new approach to some mental disorders". In the paper, published in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, the Syme and her co-author Edward Hagen propose a new approa...

BE THE CHANGE is a deep exploration into the real cause - or the 'missing' - around ADHD... Listen in and hear for yourself what might be missing in your family that if it was present, could dissolve the symptoms of your child's so-called 'disorder'. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

Thomas Armstrong, Ph. D. is the Executive Director of the American Institute for Learning and Human Development, and an award-winning author and speaker who has been an educator for over forty-five years. Over 1.3 million copies of his books are in print in English on issues related to learning and human development. He is the author of nineteen books including: - If Einstein Ran the Schools: Revi...

REFLEX INTEGRATION is an interview with Melissa Orth Fray, a well-respected, former world champion athlete, hall of fame inductee, exercise physiologist, and single digit handicap golfer who has built her practice around helping athletes improve their game, health and sense of well being for the pat 25 years. In her private practice, she coaches a select group of elite athletes (players from the B...

AARON TURNED OUT is a deep dive into the childhood of film producer Aaron H. As a child, he felt like walking on egg shells inside his own home, riddled by frequent parental arguments, verbal abuse, bursts of violence from his parents as well as constant name-calling, and more. Aaron fought hard to find independence and a sense of self-worth while being put on medication for ADHD. Join us as we di...

MIKE PANERO HAS SUPERPOWERS is a fun-filled podcast episode with Tik-Tok superstar Mike Panero. Mikey was raised by his parents to believe that ADHD was not a disorder, but a superpower. And guess what... he delivers. With close to 1.2M followers and over 45M video likes, Mikey clearly knows how to use his talents to get attention. In this candid interview, Mikey and his parents talked to me about...

THE ROOT CAUSE OF ADHD is... well, according to internationally renowned author and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, every mental disorder has at its root some form of Trauma. That's right! Dr. Maté is the author of 'Scattered Minds', his most prominent book on ADHD. Listen in on our conversation as we journey through the world of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity and propose a new way to look at...