196 Understanding Executive Functions - Working Memory

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 196, I am kicking off the anticipated Executive Function series! I’ll be breaking down the six key executive functions that are impacted by ADHD. Today’s focus is all about Working Memory.

Working memory is a temporary storage system that allows you to hold information in your mind long enough to do something with it. I like to think of working memory as an internal bulletin board where sticky notes get posted temporarily.

Did you know there are two types: verbal and non-verbal? Join me as I dive into understanding the mind’s voice and the mind’s eye that are both necessary to picture the steps involved in a task and get it done.

This is an easy one to give ourselves a hard time about. We think we SHOULD be able to do XYZ from start to finish, and we shame ourselves when we don’t. As you’ll find out in the podcast, my biggest lesson here is to embrace acceptance of our impairment and learn how to externalize these plans of action to help us accomplish them.

Ready to make a game plan for yourself to improve life with ADHD? I invite you to join my group coaching program FOCUSED, where adults like you receive regular coaching calls and learn how to hold themselves accountable in a loving but firm way.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I-H have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and
0:11.1	coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	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?
0:39.0	This is Kristen Carter and you are listening to the I have ADHD podcast episode number 196. I am medicated, I am
0:47.6	ready to roll. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? It is a rainy and cold January day here in Pennsylvania, but I am elated because I have finally moved offices and I am thrilled and I mean thrilled to be in a more quiet space. So much of my podcast recordings in the past
1:09.9	have included me cursing and talking to my editor who obviously is not here in the room with me but I just
1:18.0	like say things to her on the recordings like oh can you hear that is so annoying. I could hear my neighbor talk, no offense to him.
1:26.0	He's got a great voice. He's very, very nice, but oh my goodness, I could hear everything.
1:30.6	I could hear door slam, people talking in the hallway etc I felt like I was
1:35.6	always having to work around noise and it was frustrating so now I'm tucked away back in a far corner of the office suite.
1:47.5	Literally no shared walls with anyone else and I am dying of happiness.
1:53.4	It is so exciting.
1:55.4	Plus, I have two walls of windows.
1:57.0	Like, how lucky am I, two walls of windows?
2:00.8	And wait, there's more a standing desk a standing desk it's one
2:07.0	of the ones that you just like press a button and it lifts up to standing it's so
2:11.0	fun I've been here a few days now. I'm doing a major happy dance because this space and setup is just, it's a good fit for Kristen Carter. You know what I'm saying? It's just like a good fit. Big yay energy.
2:27.0	So today we are circling back to the Executive Function series that I mentioned to podcasts ago. It's time. It's time to follow
2:36.4	through on my promises. I did some major prep work for this one in getting my brain and my body willing to do it and it is time to get it done
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