Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHD

Children with ADHD receive significantly more negative messages in their lifetime than their neurotypical peers. Today's episode of the Soaring Child Podcast is going to explore how teachers, educators, and parents can help overcome that.  Lisa Navarra is a special education teacher and behavioral specialist with over 20 years' experience. She's also an author and a parent herself. Lisa has taught...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Kiran Krishnan, a research microbiologist who's a renowned expert on the human microbiome. Your microbiome, or gut, is a dense set of neurons that cover the entire digestive tract and can control the brain through circulation, the neurological system, immune system and lymphatic system. All these highways allow the gut and brain to constantl...

In this episode of the Soaring Child podcast, we go back to the basics. I remember years ago when my son was really struggling with ADHD, feeling so overwhelmed, not knowing what to do or whom to trust. There was so much information out there about how to best support a child with ADHD that I didn't know where to start and what was going to be the most effective.  In this episode, I will give you...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, host Dana Kay reflects on 2022 and the most common question asked – Where do I start in trying to naturally reduce ADHD symptoms in my child? She says: My son, Oliver, is a living example of treating ADHD without medication. He was four when diagnosed with ADHD and ended up on multiple prescriptions. Through a long process of trial and error, I did my own r...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by child psychologist Lori Long and certified speech language pathologist Katie Severson. They were instrumental in creating the Childhood Collective, designed to empower parents by teaching science-backed strategies to raise confident children with ADHD. One approach is to look at the ABCs of behavior -- A being antecedent, B being behavior an...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Kim West, the best-selling author of The Sleep Lady's Goodnight Sleep Tight . She's been training gentle sleep coaches internationally since 2010 and has been featured on Dr. Phil and Good Morning America as a leading child's sleep expert. So many kids with ADHD struggle with sleep, which in turn affects the parents' sleep as well. In fact,...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Elaine Taylor-Klaus, who's an author, parent educator, and certified coach, as well as the CEO of ImpactParents.com . She co-created the Sanity School Behavior Therapy Training Program to support parents of ADHD kids. A lot of kids with ADHD have poor executive functioning skills, which help us organize, think, plan, and prioritize. It's bas...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Luminara Serdar, an autism recovery expert who helps parents discover and address the root causes of behavior so that their children can be calm and happy. She discovered the neuromodulation technique at the recommendation of another parent to treat her own allergies. Soon she realized that it could help kids with autism in many ways. Neurom...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Dr. Sarah Salzman, a leading couple psychologist and founder and CEO of the Couples Communication Institute, dedicated to helping couples achieve lasting closeness and intimacy through effective communication. Having a child with ADHD can put a lot of pressure on any marriage, so it's important to communicate in a way that stays safe and cal...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, we're joined by Aaron Hartman, a functional medicine doctor and founder of the Virginia Research Center, currently serving as an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the VC School of Medicine.  If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD and is taking one or more medications for it, you might want to take a second look at what's going on. ADHD...

On this week's edition of Soaring Child, Robin Green shows us how an ancient Chinese healing technique can help kids with ADHD. Robin is an author, speaker, educator and founder of Pediatric Healing Arts, as well as a pediatric specialist in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The unfortunate reality is that kids are getting sicker today instead of healthier. Much of it has to do with unprecedented...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, Autumn Smith shares the importance of quality ingredients and how buying the right foods can help with ADHD. Autumn, a certified eating psychology coach and expert in holistic nutrition, explains that the quality ingredients critical to a child's health are whole foods. Always try to buy organic and non-GMO foods, and stay away from sugar, additives, and in...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, Ashley Gobeil shares specific tools to help kids with ADHD. When an ADHD child is reacting to a situation emotionally, their brain has a "flipped lid" and the upstairs and downstairs parts of the brain aren't working together. One way to deal with it is to name the emotion (name it to tame it) to validate the child's feelings until they can calm down so the...

There are hidden advantages of ADHD, and it's a subject most people don't talk about. On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we connect with April Tierney, a lifelong educator who specializes in teaching students with ADHD. April shares how kids with ADHD can embrace their superpowers and do better at school. April cites eight superpowers of ADHD, which include high physical, mental, and verbal...

If you suspect that your child has anxiety because they exhibit a lot of fear and worry, this episode of Soaring Child will help you identify ways to alleviate that anxiety in their body and mind. Jess Sherman is a family health educator who helps parents ease their children's anxiety and improve their learning and stress tolerance. She is a certified teacher, a functional diagnostic nutrition pra...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we take a look at the role stress can play on a child's developing brain and behavior. Our guest is Emily Fletcher, the founder of Ziva, the first meditation course for kids aged 4 to 14, and author of the bestseller, Stressless. When the body reacts to stress, it's flooded with the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, which are acidic in nature and can...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we take a look at the challenges to keeping your kids eating the right foods. Andrea Daigle is a regular on the show and is a board-certified holistic health practitioner and a member of the team at the ADHD Thrive Institute. She specializes in coaching families through making diet changes through food choices, meal planning, and getting buy-in from not jus...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we take a look at the challenges parents face when it comes to getting their kids to eat right. How do you make nutritious foods appealing to those picky eaters? Katie Kimble is a picky-eating expert and the national voice of Healthy Kids Cooking. She is also a blogger, former teacher, and mother of four kids.  Katie points out that the biggest obstacle is...

Please note: This podcast includes words or language that might be considered coarse or offensive to some listeners.  On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we take a look at ADHD from the perspective of someone who's had it. Chris Haddad is considered one of the best direct response copywriters in the world, as well as a best-selling author of the book, The Language of Desire. He's also overcom...

Dr. Ana-Maria Temple is a holistic pediatrician, best-selling author, mother of 3, and award-winning speaker. In this episode, she shares what eczema is and how to prevent and cure it. She also speaks about the dangers of mold toxicity and how to start the process of food elimination. Just when we think we know about the boundaries of ADHD, we get reminded that it can expand to other different typ...

Dr. Scott Antoine is a board-certified physician, author, speaker, and legislative advocate. In this episode, he discusses PANS and PANDAS and how one can support their child with this neuropsychiatric disorder as well as prevent it. Dr. Scott explains what PANS and PANDAS is, as well as how he got introduced to the disorder through his daughter's diagnosis, the methods used to diagnose this disor...

Kayla Helenske is a registered Art Therapist and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Join us as she shares what exactly art therapy is and how it can help your child with ADHD or other mental disabilities. We discuss what art therapy consists of and how it can be more beneficial than traditional talk therapy, how art therapy differs from play therapy, ways it can calm the nervous system, and much...

On this week's episode of Soaring Child, we spoke with returning guest, Andrea Daigle. Andrea is part of my amazing team at ADHD Thrive Institute, a board-certified holistic health practitioner, and also a FDN-P. She is truly an expert when it comes to working with kids with ADHD and other similar disorders. On this episode, we dive into the topic of meal prepping and how one can save an abundant...

Ashley Gobeil specializes in Counseling Psychology and works in the fields of family therapy, school counseling, domestic violence, and all things pertaining to childhood trauma. She is truly an expert in healing children and adults. In this episode, Ashley shares how to create behavioral changes for children and families as a whole, different parenting skills we need to develop such as compassion...

As parents, we want the absolute best for our children, but it's hard when our child is not confiding in us for important events that may have a significant effect on their behavior. What seems like a minor issue for one may seem like the sky is falling for another, so we should definitely be paying more attention to how our children react to certain situations.  In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian...