What is a change you want to make, an action plan with Elaine Taylor-Klausto take? You probably can think of a bunch. How do you move to the point of actually doing it? Aye, there’s the rub. Listen to me and my guest Elaine Taylor-Klaus of IMPACTparents walk me/us through her Action Plan concept for moving from “need to/should/have to do ABC” to “yes, I will do ABC”. You get to hear how I came around to actually wanting to start doing my taxes! Yes, really! (well, ok, the first steps. Hey, that counts!)Elaine Taylor-Klaus founded IMPACTparents in 2010, “to provide training, coaching, and support for parents of complex kids, including those with ADHD, autism, and other neurodiversities”. Coaching is virtual or in-person, group or individual. Her book The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids grew out of her experiences in raising her own neurodivergent kids (as a neurodivergent parent) and that of working with many sets of parents over the ensuing ten years.
What is your biggest ADHD challenge? Getting started? Finishing the task? Getting out the door (aka One More Thing)? Not enough motivation? All are variations on the same theme and all are significant challenges, usually more than one each and every day! Join me and my guest Tamara Rosier as we coach you through conquering each of these challenges, and reveal how we cope with them – no secrets, we have ADHD too!
Tamara Rosie Ph.D. is an ADHD Coach, founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, author of Your Brain’s Not Broken and You, Me, and our ADHD Family, and a treasured resource in the world of ADHD. Find her at ADHDCenterofWestMichigan.com , connect with her on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/tamara-rosier-phd and catch her on Instagram @Dr.TamaraRosier.
Emotions are the keys to unlocking motivation; how do you find the motivation to get started, finish up, get out the door? First steps? Stop. Take a breath, roll your shoulders back and down away from your ears, take a few deep breaths, and then think it through. Talk through the steps to arrive at solutions to these challenges – persons with ADHD think best when we are “think out loud”. Talk it through with a friend, a coach, a colleague, with Alexa or Gemini or your favorite Ai, even just out loud with yourself or, as engineers call it, “rubber ducking”, as if one were talking to a rubber duck on your desk. (No, not in the bathtub, your notes will get all wet.) And be kind to yourself along the way, give yourself credit for approaching any one of these bugaboos in a different way. Listen and learn!
Finding Motivation. The ultimate quest for persons with ADHD. My patients often tell me “I’m not motivated” or “I need more motivation”. Actually, they have plenty of motivation…to do whatever they are doing, which often is not what they know they need to be doing, and on some level want to finish (or start). Sound familiar?
My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD coach and Chief Engineer of Cognitive Ergonomics, a new paradigm for addressing the primary impairment in ADHD – Executive Functions which don’t function well.
We have to “solve problems/figure things out” many times each day. Ones like balancing schedules of 3 kids in 3 different schools with getting errands done, and getting home in time to make dinner (or to take it out of the box before it gets cold). Or how to get out the door to not be late to whatever. Or planning for college/finding a job/finding a new job
The key to finding/having motivation is to reduce the effort it takes to problem-solve. And that is the topic of today’s show. See? You’re in the right place!
Join Jeff and I as we dive into the details of finding motivation. Listen, and learn!
About The Host
ADHD Focus with David Pomeroy, MD
Dr. Pomeroy has practiced Family Medicine in a variety of settings in the Pacific Northwest since completing his Family Practice Residency training program in Seattle in 1979, after having the good sense to move out west from the East Coast where he was raised. He did full-spectrum Family Practice including care of patients in hospital, delivering babies, assisting at surgery, and maintaining a busy office practice while in private practice in Puyallup and Gig Harbor then with large multi-specialty practices in primary care offices in Redmond and Issaquah.
When primary care office practice degenerated into a blur of “see patients every 15 minutes” and “come back if you have a second problem”, he left it behind in 2005 to start his practice specializing in the field of ADHD. Over the past 10 years he has evaluated over 3000 patients of all ages and managed their care for ADHD and a variety of co-occurring disorders.
He is well versed in all aspects of ADHD. He has presented talks to lay and professional groups and participates actively in the nationalADHD community. He continues to add to his working knowledge of ADHD by listening to his patients, attending national meetings of ADHD specialists as well as keeping up to date with research in the field reported in ADHD professional journals.
In his spare time he enjoys long-distance cycling, Lindy Hop swing dancing, listening to music of all genres (not much country…), skiing and being outdoors in the great Pacific Northwest.
Stay tuned to learn more on tips, strategies, and frameworks you could use to help your neurodivergent/ADHD child maximize their potential at school!
Our guest for this upcoming episode is none other than Frances Coppa who is an ADHD coach, a former SpEd teacher and school principal, parent of a child with ADHD, and a person with ADHD herself.
Tune in to gain invaluable insights from her in our new episode coming out soon!
Discover how emotions and motivation intersect in individuals with ADHD and learn actionable strategies to support individuals in managing these challenges. (more)
This webinar provides valuable insights to help overcome motivational hurdles and thrive.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Understand the relationship between emotional regulation and motivation in individuals with ADHD by identifying the underlying neurological and behavioral connections.
Analyze common challenges that those with ADHD face in initiating and sustaining tasks and explain why these difficulties occur.
Apply evidence-based strategies to help manage emotions and build motivation in school, professional, and home settings.
Evaluate the effectiveness of different motivational techniques and tools for supporting individuals with ADHD in specific scenarios.
Create a personalized plan or approach to support emotional regulation and motivation.
Tamara Rosier, PhD, is the founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, where she leads a team dedicated to helping individuals and families understand and manage their unique challenges. She is also the author of Your Brain’s Not Broken and You, Me, and Our ADHD Family, books that provide practical strategies for navigating the emotional complexities of neurodivergence and personal growth
Come attend this year’s Neuro Diversion on March 27-29, 2025 to be held in Austin, Texas!
In this event you’ll get to participate, connect, learn, and celebrate neurodiversity. This event is for anyone who identifies as neurodivergent, creators, influencers, teachers, parents, teens, and kids who want to learn and celebrate the awesomeness of neurodivergence.
By attending this event, you’ll get to attend fireside chats with thought leaders, participate in workshops, attend meetups, play fun games and more!
International Conference on ADHD will be in Anaheim, CA this year November 14-16. Professional Day on 14th, “gathering of the tribe” on the 15th & 16th with workshops, talent show, good company. Register Here! https://chadd.org/conference/
Do you feel that the treatments for your child’s ADHD and co-occurring Anxiety and/or Learning Disorders and/or Depression are not working for …something else but you don’t know what? That there are signs – behaviors, meltdowns, struggles with friends – that things are not yet OK, that something is being missed. You are totally spent by the end of each day, your house is a mess, you have given up seeing friends – in order that you can put 100% of your time and energy into helping your child.
Maybe this is not your struggle, but you see this going on in a friend, or a relative, or a neighbor, or co-worker.
My guest today is Elaine Taylor-Klaus, founder of IMPACTparents, author of The Essential Guide to raising Complex Kids, Master Certified Coach, and parent to four neurodivergent children. Her experiences, personal and professional, have led her to believe that the “something else” for many girls (and women) is Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Join us as we discuss the clues, the behaviors, the symptoms that suggest an evaluation for ASD is in order; the role that parents play and how critical it is that parents get coaching in how to parent these exceptional children, it is the single most-important thing they can do to help their child. Parents need validation, recognition that the difficulties they face every day are way beyond the norm of parenting challenges AND that they are not alone. Many families are in the same struggle.
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