TPP 221a: The Relationship Between Exercise and Mental Health for Neurodivergent Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a Playback Friday episode. Unless you're a longtime listener, you likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something completely different from it this time around. Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm Debbie Reber. And this week, I'm talking with coach, counselor and author Gabriel Villarreal about the intersection of mental health and exercise for differently wired kids. Gabriel is not just a licensed counselor specializing in ADHD and the owner of Lost Boys Strength and Conditioning Gym. He also has ADHD himself and has experienced the convergence of these three topics in a profoundly personal way.
Gabriel is the creator of the ADHD Answers book series, including the books on Strength and Positioning, Don't Just Survive with ADHD, Unlock Your Superpowers and Thrive, on the Benefits of Music Therapy, Understanding the Benefits of Music for the ADHD Brain, and his most recent edition on Exercise as Medicine. In our conversation, we talk about the concept of exercise as medicine, the differences and considerations of exercise benefits for ADHD, and Gabriel's advice for parents and coaches who want to help their differently wired kids and athletes thrive mentally and physically. And now here is my conversation with Gabriel. Hello, Gabriel. Welcome to the podcast.
Hi, Debbie. Thanks for having me.
This is a really exciting conversation. You know, with a lot of my guests, I have a personal stake in what you have to say. So this one is no different. But before we get into the kind of core theme of our talk today, could you take a few minutes and just tell us a little bit more about yourself? I've read your formal bio, but tell us a little bit about who you are in the world and what you do.
Sure. So I do a little bit of everything. I am a licensed professional counselor in the state of Virginia. I'm also a strength and conditioning coach. I own my own gym here in Roanoke, Virginia. And I do, yeah, a little bit of everything. Most recently, I have been combining the two fields in various ways I'm sure we'll talk about. But I think most recently, within the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to educate a lot of other coaches on everything that we're going to talk about today.
Yeah, so this is something that I think is just so appropriate to for these times that we're in, we're recording this in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, and people are home with their kids. And, you know, they're not getting the same kind of exercise or opportunities that they would typically have. And we're going to be talking about specifically kids with ADHD, but I know you work with kids with all different types of narrow differences around the area of exercise. So maybe just tell us even how you got into this. How did you find yourself working in this intersection between exercise and mental health?
Yeah, sure. So I was in graduate school in 2010. And the story goes, graduate school's kind of hard. And throughout graduate school, I probably saw most of my cohort present like an emotional breakdown at some point that first year. And for whatever reason, I just was not feeling the stress. And in reflecting on that first semester, you know, after that semester was over, really the only different thing that I was doing is I was training for a half marathon. And so I had a pretty strict training regime. I was running two or three times a week and combine that with eating okay. But also, you know, in graduate school, every conversation that you have with a professor is like a mini counseling session.
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