Mindful As A Mother

This week we welcome a special guest, Olivia Silvana. Olivia is a school psychologist and women’s ADHD coach and educator. Olivia is here to discuss all things ADHD and women. We cover important topics like how does your menstrual cycle impact your ADHD symptoms, how do ADHD symptoms show up differently at different phases of your menstrual cycle, and skills to manage ADHD symptoms in conjunction...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother. In this episode we’ll cover how to determine what quadrant your children are in, telling behaviors, and tips to support them in learning how to lead a more balanced life. We cover parenting tips for your neurodivergent child including how to motivate without malicious emotionality, breaking up tasks for more support, and how to become more attuned and aware of...

Paige and Lindsay are back with the “solve it grid” for another week. This week, we’re giving tips on how to categorize your daily tasks into each colored quadrant and tips for overcoming malicious motivators and motivation murders while charging your metaphorical battery. Tune in for real-time tips on how to categorize and hacks you can try to overcome your own draining habits and better understa...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother! In this week’s episode, Paige and Lindsay discuss the “solve it grid” by Dr. Tamara Rosier, PhD. The solve-it grid uses a quadrant system with the colors red, yellow, green and blue to support us in identifying where our energy lies as an individual with ADHD. Red tasks involved high emotionality and drain us the fastest, while we can recharge with blue or gree...

Summer Tips for the Nero-spicy: maintain a routine, allowing for more autonomy, slowing down, and being more intentional with levels of stimulation. Activities: Luca Themed Family Night, Puffy Paint Recipe, Giant Bubbles, Edible Bubbles Check out our summer sanity freebie : https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6287e12943dc82c434359177

In light of our most recent episodes in supporting our children, we wanted to bring back this episode from Dr. Kate Lund, clinical psychologist, on understanding how to support our children in turning their challenges into strengths. In this episode, Paige and Lindsay sit down with Dr. Kate Lund who is the author of “Bounce,” a book to help your child build resilience in sports and in life. In the...

This week there is a special emphasis on tweens and teens. Tune in for real-time examples of how you can identify time blindness, how to support the development of autonomy and responsibility, and avoiding overwhelm and shutting down with your teen. One tool that we specifically discuss, and happens to be one of our favorites, is creating bookends. We discuss how to use "bookend" activities to sup...

This week, we're unmasking and discovering how we've adapted to hacking our motivation as adults. We are continuing the conversation on motivation; time blindness, energy draining, and working memory. We cover how each of these motivation murderers shows up differently for each neuro-spicy person and cover a variety of skills you can attempt to help hack your brain. Find Calm Mom Happy Kids here:...

Welcome back! It's another month and another Q&A. Each month, Lindsay and Paige compile questions from the community Facebook group, Instagram and TikTok to answer in real-time. This episode their covering topics including tips on supporting increasing the attention span of our children with independent play, how to support our children through early life trauma, developmentally appropriat...

We're back! This week Lindsay and Paige are continuing the conversation on motivation murderers; avoidance, anxiety, procrastination, anger, and perfectionism. Except, this week we're talking about how they can show up for your kids. Our brains allow us to "hack" them, but you need the right tools. Just as adults struggle with these motivation murderers, so do kids. We're tal...

This week, Paige and Lindsay dive deep into motivation when you have ADHD. They each provide real examples of how they've created not the best habits lining emotionality and motivation to get all the things done. Whether we're murdering out motivation through anger, procrastination, anxiety, or avoidance we're sharing all our favorite tips and tricks to support ourselves in mustering m...

DAY 5! WE DID IT! You have now learned how to map your nervous system, evaluated basic needs, learned and practiced new skills, and practiced them with your children. Next, we learn how to use all of this information to create a supportive routine. We have a toolbox that we're filling and we need a wide variety of tools. Just like you can't build an entire house with just a hammer, not eve...

You've got the foundation, your basic needs are met, you've selected and practiced new skills, and NOW is learning to do it together. "How do I teach my kids to manage their emotions?" Well, we have to take it back to co-regulating. Co-regulating is when we use our nervous system to help support our child's nervous system and enter a calm state. Basically, your ability to man...

Step Three! This is where most parents and people get off track. Did you know that if you attempt too much change too quickly you're actually making it harder on yourself? Often, we want to start here, jumping in to use all the skills. "What do I do at the moment?!" "What are the skills?!" If you haven't, go back to day one to make sure you have a solid foundation of un...

Welcome back to the podcast sprint! We've mapped our nervous system, or maybe your child's nervous system. Now, we need to ensure that our basic needs are being met. "Am I optimizing myself at the level I am capable of?" For the purpose of this podcast sprint and nervous system regulation, our basic needs include rest, sunlight, movement, play, nourishment, connection, shelter, a...

Get the down and dirty on the what, why, and how of mapping your nervous system and the nervous system of your child. Nervous system regulation is the core of understanding our responses as adults and tantrums and meltdowns for our kids. Often, we try and jump in immediately with skills to help, but if we don't understand how and why the meltdowns happen, it's harder to problem solve. This...

Yes, monsters. Monsters under the bed AND in our head. Tune into this week of the podcast where Paige and Lindsay talk about the things that keep us from achieving our best lives as an ADHD individual, how you can identify your own monsters, and tips for what skills, or monster spray, you can use to keep them at bay. You can find us on youtube at: https://youtu.be/_BNcBJ_uS2s Don't forget to g...

Please join us in welcoming Grace Koelma, CEO of Future. ADHD! Grace is an educator, mindfulness and breathwork educator, and an ADHD Mom raising an ADHD kid. This week, we're deep diving into why traditional planners and thought patterns can actually make it harder for those of us with ADHD to get out lives together. Lindsay shares about her planner graveyard while Grace shares how her planne...

This week, we're throwing back to spooky season and some of our favorite, most asked, and most answered questions. No, you didn't time travel, it's barely spring, but we couldn't resist bringing back this old favorite, most requested Q&A. Audience questions are answered with a dash of personal stories and applicable examples. Get answers to some of your burning questions includ...

What do we know about ADHD? That's it makes us WILDLY creative: adults and, especially, children. In this episode, we talk through how being wildly creative can also be a pitfall as we get lost in the "monsters" of our mind. Part one talks about how we see monsters show up for our neurodivergent kids and how we can support them in taming those monsters. Stay tuned! Next week we're talking about ho...

Please give the absolute warmest welcome to 2/3 members of The Childhood Collective, Katie and Mallory. The Childhood Collective is a company owned and operated by two child psychologists and one speech pathologist. After working collectively with families for over 40 years, they've made it their mission to provide ongoing resources and support for parents raising ADHD children. This conversat...

Please give the absolute warmest welcome to 2/3 members of The Childhood Collective, Katie and Mallory. The Childhood Collective is a company owned and operated by two child psychologists and one speech pathologist. After working collectively with families for over 40 years, they've made it their mission to provide ongoing resources and support for parents raising ADHD children. This conversat...

We're back this week with part two of the fascinating world of ADHD thinking, convergent and divergent thinking, and the superpowers of the ADHD brain.  We begin by exploring convergent and divergent thinking, and how they differ from one another. We discuss how people with ADHD often excel at divergent thinking, which involves generating multiple ideas and solutions while struggling with conv...

In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of ADHD thinking, convergent and divergent thinking, and the superpowers of the ADHD brain.  We begin by exploring convergent and divergent thinking, and how they differ from one another. We discuss how people with ADHD often excel at divergent thinking, which involves generating multiple ideas and solutions, while struggling with convergent t...

This week we're pleased to welcome back Lenora Edwards, SLP to discuss the role of speech therapy and speech and language skills in conjunction with ADHD. What most people don't know is that speech therapists work "from the neck up" and that includes a variety of sequencing and working memory that is involved with being differently wired (neurodivergent). Lenora discusses the role of SLP in suppor...