Take Control ADHD

🎧 This Week on The ADHD Podcast…
We’ve talked plenty about asking for help. This week, JAMES OCHOA, LPC and his son Jules join us to take on the other half: what happens when someone actually helps you, and why that can feel so much harder.

🎙️ Quoteworthy Moment of the Week:
“Someone with ADHD doesn’t just learn to be open. We’re open based on impulsivity. But being open consciously, it takes a real effort.”
— James Ochoa

🧰 Takeaway Tips for Your ADHD Toolbox:
• Unrequested help hits differently than help you asked for.
• Indebtedness and gratitude are different feelings, and the shift between them is a practice.
• If you’re the helper, the most useful thing you can do is stop helping and start listening.

➡️ Tune in to this week’s very helpful episode wherever you like to get your podcasts or click the link below.

Receiving Help Without Losing Yourself with James and Jules Ochoa — Take Control ADHD Asking for help is hard. Receiving it might be harder, and James Ochoa and his son Jules are here to talk about why, from both sides of the equation.

🎧 This Week on The ADHD Podcast…
Most of us have a stack of self-help books we fully intend to get to. Our friend Misty Stinnett, co-host of Go Help Yourself, has read hundreds of them for her show, and she joins us to talk about reading when your attention has its own plans.

🎁 BONUS: FREE DOWNLOAD!
Get the companion guide, “Let the Book Work for You,” with reflection questions and reframes for the thoughts that keep a book stuck on the nightstand.

🎙️ Quoteworthy Moment of the Week:
“It is okay to give yourself permission to have the book work for you. You don’t work for the book. The book did not hire you. You are not on the clock for the book.”
— Misty Stinnett

🧰 Takeaway Tips for Your ADHD Toolbox:
• Do the work before you open the book, not after.
• Audiobooks are not cheating, and the research backs that up.
• Reduce the friction between the page and your brain.

➡️ Tune in to this week’s page-turner of an episode wherever you get your podcasts or click the link below.

Reading, Audiobooks, and the ADHD Comprehension Problem with Misty Stinnett — Take Control ADHD Misty Stinnett has read hundreds of self-help books for her podcast, and her best advice is to let the book work for you. We talk reading, audiobooks and the research on what helps ADHD brains hold on to what they read.

Two Saturdays. A lot of support. A little less chaos before the season fully lands.

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Come as you are. That’s enough. 💫

📖 Save your seat before registration closes Wednesday at 11:59pm PT:
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