As ADHD people, we pay most attention to the things that generate the biggest signals. This week on the Translating ADHD podcast, we dive deeper into this signal based attention system.
We discuss our tendency as ADHD adults to rely on the Adrenaline Response Cycle (ARC) and hyperfocus as primary tools for getting to action. The challenge here is that these tools are only effective for the biggest signals, those generated by emotion or urgency. This leaves us ignoring the more nuanced signals, the ones that often speak to what really matters to us.
Cam and Shelly discuss how many of our clients come to coaching with the limiting belief that their previous strategies "no longer work". The reality here is more nuanced - as life gets more complicated and our goals get more lofty, relying only on paying attention to the biggest signals and the subsequent ADHD response of adrenaline or hyperfocus no longer works because these reactive tendencies don't allow for forward progress.
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For more of the Translating ADHD podcast:
Bigger Perspective Work with ADHD: A Client Scenario
Cultivating a Practice: Perspective Shifts and ADHD
Cultivating a Practice with ADHD
Emotional Modes with ADHD: Empathy
Cultivating Trust in Relationships with ADHD
Positive Emotions and Positive Structures with ADHD
Opening the Door to Positive Emotions with ADHD
Big Signal Emotions with ADHD: Rejection
Big Signal Emotions with ADHD: Shame
A Different Take on Emotional Dysregulation with ADHD
Big Signal Emotions with ADHD: Blame
Navigating the First Barrier of ADHD
ADHD PoC Voices: Romanza McAllister LCSW Shares her Own Story and Discusses Challenges Facing People of Color with ADHD
The First Barrier of ADHD
Contextual Wiring and Your Unique Value with ADHD
Mindset and Shifting Context with ADHD
Context and the Tone of Your ‘Why?’
Context Pitfalls and ADHD
Contextual Mad-Libs and ADHD
ADHD, Coaching and Context
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