This Is How My Brain Works

S2 E13: Differently Wired in a Noisier World - A Conversation for Autism Awareness Month and Beyond This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for me...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael CollinsWe’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to help...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael CollinsWe’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to help...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael CollinsWe’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to h...

On this episode, we interview special guest Liz Rutledge! Liz is a Mindfulness Educator at Sustainable Happiness Together where she teaches mindfulness meditation as an ADD support for focus. Sustainable Happiness Together’s mission is to support people to be resilient and thrive by inspiring them to be more present for this gift of life, experience more happiness, while powerfully living into the...

This Is How My Brain WorksHosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

Special Guest: Dr. Lowell Wightman of 360mindset 360 Mindset applies a scientific approach to mental performance coaching for athletes, professionals and performers. Dr. Wightman (Coach Lowell) creates proactive, foundational strategies that address the potential to anticipate obstacles while applying desire to generate the best results using tools like the Reiss Motivation Profile Assessment whic...

This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who became aware of our neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we share stories, discuss interesting topics, and talk to special guests. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The purpose of our podcast is to...

This Is How My Brain Works We’re a group of GenXers who learned about our ADHD and neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we discuss interesting clips we find online and how they relate to our own life experiences. Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health professionals. The pu...

I Can Load The Dishwasher Better Than You: The Complex Relationship ADHD/AuDHDers Have With Systems Special thanks to Morgan Foley for the clip! @morgaanfoley on Instagram This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who learned about our ADHD and neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we discuss interesting clips we find...

Do you ever leave the house to do one thing and end up doing another? Well, you're in for a treat as we play a clip from Taylor King Gordon who has a unique way of getting her ADHD husband to accomplish the errands she wants him to. Special thanks to Instagram: @kinggordonfam for the clip! Recorded 8/9/24 This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collin...

Rewired In Midlife This Is How My Brain Works Hosts: Krista Gano, Sarah Hines, Jason Rudofsky and Michael Collins We’re a group of GenXers who learned about our ADHD and neurodiversity later in life. Join us as we discuss interesting clips we find online and how they relate to our own life experiences. Please note: While we are advocates for for mental health awareness, we are not mental health pr...

Is this generation more tuned in to how other people's brains work? Once you've been diagnosed with a type of neurodivergence, you tend to notice it out in society more clearly. And from our experiences, it leads to more compassionate responses when you see someone who is flooded, distressed, masking, etc. In this episode we explore neurospicy indicators, interpersonal communication, love...

What are the things that are not only irritating, but can create ADHD RAGE? Loud chewing? Road trips? Needing a response to a question...IMMEDIATELY! A certain network news channel? Irritability, anger issues, and emotional dysregulation in general contribute significantly to the psychosocial burden of ADHD in children and adults. The latest research suggests that these rage problems are inherent...

Have you ever turned in a report...early?! Why do some people need to push things to the deadline before they have the motivation to complete something? Do we need to put ourselves in a stress state in order to perform or can we accomplish things in a "typical" fashion? Special thanks to  @ADHDoers  and  @lifeactuator  for the hilarious clip!https://www.instagram.com/lifeactuator/ This I...

Let's face it, neurodiverse people are f-ing interesting! And they're taking to social media to find and build communities. Sometimes that can be challenging in a neurotypical world. Social media is a way to be seen and heard without the social pressures ND people often feel in certain situations. So when you see a post where someone is geeking out about their rock collection in an enterta...

Remember the expression "Smooth move, Ex-Lax"? (GenX in the house!) Well, in this episode we talk about "soothe moves", or self-soothing. When our brains start speeding up and we want to calm down organically and naturally, it's normal for us to move our body in certain ways to self-regulate or self-soothe. Whether it's rubbing your temples, ears, arm above your head, o...

As GenXers we all know the song, Our House by Madness. I wonder if there was any neurodiversity in that household. Seeing as how a lot of creatives are on some sort of ADHD and/or autism spectrum, probably so! In this episode we explore what size spoons tend to get used the most, parenting, pinballs, buzzers and lights, "The car leaves at 7:30!", repair after dysregulation, and many more...

How can you reward yourself for accomplishing even the smaller things like putting the scissors away? This isn't an "everyone gets a trophy" type of thinking, it's an easy way to create a much needed dopamine hit for a neurodiverse brain. That said, are we in need of too much external validation? We also discuss some household programs we've tried to varying degrees of succes...

The Crockpot is a magical cooking device for the ADHDer. Load it up turn it on and let it cook! In a neurotypical world, what other tools are there to help us out? What can we do to keep some semblance of harmony in the household? Sometimes we just have to laugh about it or risk going into the dreaded shame spiral. Or maybe set some boundaries and feel lighter! Special thanks to Derrick Stroup for...