TPP 144: Psychotherapist Dr. Sharon Saline on What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the episode and who is the guest?
Living with ADHD is like living with a thousand paper cuts. It's not trauma with a capital T as I like to see it. It's a thousand little small things that create these small kinds of traumas. And so shifting focus Helps them. Веню сі фокус, і халс тем і на смар фокус.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Rieber, and I'm the host of this show, and I'm excited to be sharing this episode with you because it's been a while since I've done a show focused primarily on ADD-ADHD, and this is a really great one. My guest is Dr. Sharon.
In addition to being a regular contributor to Attitude magazine, Sharon is the author of the new book What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew, working together to empower kids for success in school and life. In today's episode, we cover a lot of ground and talk about everything from what a child's emotional journey is like as he or she comes to understand and accept the way their brain is wired and the correlation between anxiety and ADHD to how parents can help ADHD kids reduce outbursts, that's something I wanted to know, and more successfully collaborate with our kids. Sharon also shares with us what she calls her five Cs of ADHD parenting, or her key to successfully supporting these creative kids, and she also gives us her thoughts on medication in ADHD.
There were so many great takeaways today and just really great insights for parents of all differently wired kids, not just those kids who have attention issues. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Yeah. Before I get to the episode, I wanted to give a quick shout out to some new supporters of the podcast, Jess Boyd and Nama Atid. Thank you so much for joining my Patreon campaign and helping me fund this show. And if you enjoy this podcast and would like to support its production, please consider joining Jess and Nama by signing up for my Patreon campaign at the five, ten, or even twenty dollars a month level. That money goes directly toward covering the production cost for this show and keeping Tilt Parenting going.
Thank you so much for considering. If you want to learn more or sign up, you can find a link on any of the show notes pages on Tilt Parenting or go to Patreon dot com slash Tilt Parenting and Patreon is spelled P A T R E O N. Thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Dr. Celine. Hey Sharon, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Debbie. It's so great to be here. How are you today? I'm trying to stay warm but doing doing pretty well. How about you? About the same. Well, I have so many questions and going through your book and I actually haven't had that many guests on specifically to talk about ADHD. So we'll see what we can get through. But before we dive into that, will you just take a few minutes and tell us about who you are in the world and maybe a little bit about how you came to be doing the work that you do?
Absolutely. So I'm a clinical psychologist and I live in western Massachusetts. I've uh worked with children, teens, young adults, adults, families living with ADHD and anxiety for many, many years. Um, I love the creativity and the humor that comes along with having a n a neurodiverse brain, and I'm very excited about my book. I grew up in a family with a brother who had A younger brother who had undiagnosed and untreated ADHD. And it was a stressful childhood in some ways and a wonderful childhood in others, of course. Um, but he struggled and my parents struggled with him and I watched the whole thing, you know, go on and there wasn't a lot I could do. And I think of course that's why I became a family therapist.
So that I could work with families who were struggling and try to help them. Oh, that's great. So it's personal to you. It is personal to me and the reason that I wrote this book was because I was s seeing over and over again in in my practice, in talks I was giving to parents. that parents and kids were missing each other's signals, that kids weren't, you know, sharing or feeling understood by their parents for what it was like to live with ADHD or what their experiences were like.
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