122 ADHD and The Weight of the World
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
[TRIGGER WARNING: I discuss current world events on this podcast and invite you to feel negative emotion with me]
In the last 2 weeks, some very heavy and concerning world events have taken place. With so much suffering happening right now, I wanted to record an episode for you that acknowledges our collective pain and gives you some strategies on how to cope so that you can be an informed and caring human without being totally distracted and non-functional. I am sending you so much love!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and |
| 0:11.1 | coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:26.0 | I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you are listening to the I have |
| 0:41.3 | ADHD podcast episode number 122. I am medicated, I am |
| 0:46.6 | cappinated, and I am ready to roll. How are you? How are you? How are you? Oh my goodness, this is a big day in the Carter home. Our three boys started school today and it is a very big deal. |
| 1:00.6 | Owen is an eighth grade. He's nearly a man you guys he starts high school in one year I cannot handle it he's only an inch shorter than me |
| 1:08.8 | And I'm a pretty tall woman. I'm 5859 kind a situation. He got braces last week. He's just so old! |
| 1:16.6 | Charlie is in sixth grade, currently enjoying his very first day of middle school. |
| 1:20.9 | He took his first bus ride since kindergarten. Our elementary |
| 1:25.4 | school that we moved into when he was in first grade doesn't have any buses. It's a |
| 1:29.3 | walking school. So now that he's going to middle school, he's riding the bus, super fun, he's like ready to take on the world and transition into this like more grown-up phase and I'm really, I'm so happy for him. Crosby is in second grade and let me tell you he is the most sparkly, |
| 1:47.0 | delightful animated child you will ever meet. |
| 1:50.0 | Maybe it's just because he's like my last kid, he's my baby. |
| 1:53.5 | I don't know, do all of the parents out there feel this way about their last kid? |
| 1:57.5 | It's like, oh my gosh, she's perfect. |
| 2:00.0 | He's just got a spark, you know? |
| 2:02.4 | But anyway, I'm just feeling so in love with my kids right now |
| 2:07.2 | and for the first time ever since becoming a parent of school-age kids I'm like |
| 2:12.1 | really sad that school is starting. I'm always |
| 2:14.8 | said that summer's ending, but I'm really really sad that school is starting because |
| 2:18.6 | this summer for the first time ever I had the luxury of having an office outside of my tiny little home and |
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