211 | The Complex - James and Jules Ochoa

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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James Ochoa returns to the podcast this week. James is a licensed professional counselor, author of . He is the founder and director of The Life Empowerment Center in Austin, Texas. James offers action-focused counseling and executive coaching to help his clients discover ways to empower themselves in areas of their lives. His passion is treating the emotional distress of ADHD, so clients can begin to build internal worlds in their imagine to manage their attention challenges. For the past 27 years, his passion has been to transform how society understands and treats the diagnosis of ADHD. By standing in the fire with his clients, he has helped them find ways to live powerfully in the midst of their storms while managing his own ADHD. Jules Ochoa is 22-years-old, and currently pursuing a masters degree in psychology with the intention of working with mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. He is self-taught in the world of podcasting and audio engineering. He produces and co-writes the new podcast series, . On this episode, you will hear the second episode of James’ and Jules’ podcast, The Complex. We play “Ok, stop” and interrupt the episode to talk share some thoughts on what is happening in that particular episode. Connect with James and Jules Ochoa You’ll Learn: [07:05] - Jules describes the podcast he has been working on with James, The Complex. [08:10] - Jules talks about working on a creative project with his father. [11:41] - We play “OK Stop” with on of Episode #2 of The Complex. [15:58] - I share that this particular story rings true with my life experience. James explains why this story feels real. [18:07] - When I first listened to this, it struck some shame triggers. James talks about the balance they try to strike with this podcast. Jules says that one aim of the podcast is to help people that don’t have ADHD relate to people in their lives that do have ADHD. [24:18] - Jules explains why they made some creative decisions with one of the characters. [26:30] - Jules shares how the audio demonstrates that someone with ADHD can jump tasks and orientations. He says that this is one of the most confusing aspects of ADHD for other people. [36:53] - We pick back up with the episode after our break. [37:22] - I share that I really liked the description a character used in the episode. [41:10] - I talk about a meditation practice, “Welcome to the Party.” [46:16] - Jules explains why the story may take a route to help address another area of ADHD. James lists the different types of issues and areas of disruption covered in the podcast. [51:10] - James shares one of the things that was difficult with the creation and writing process of the podcast. [52:51] - Jules talks about playing the role of the son of James, an ADHD expert. James shares his feelings on that topic, too. [1:02:10] - James talks about how podcasts and community can turn the tide of understanding and living with ADHD. Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group Registration of our 12th season of the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group is now over. If you would like to join the waiting list for our spring season, schedule a call with me at . The spring session begins April 9th. Our summer session begins July 9th. Support the podcast on Patreon Patreon allows listeners like you to support content creators like me. With a monthly contribution, you can get access to different levels of perks. One perk example is our Patreon-only Adult Study Hall. Learn more at ADHD reWired Facebook Group: If you would like to join the ADHD reWired secret Facebook group, go to and fill out an application. Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live! These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm. Go to. Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you? Do you have a story? Are you a Coach? Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered yes to any of these questions and you’d like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call .

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0:00.0	Meditation is an enormous aspect of learning to kind of do that on purpose and that sense of intensity because you can get to those feeling states,
0:10.0	certainly with physical exercise, but you can also do it with mindfulness and meditation.
0:13.6	It's why it's so critical as a component for someone with ADHD long term.
0:22.2	ADHD, rewired. 80-H.D. Rewired episode 211.
0:28.5	This is THE show designed for those of us with really good intentions but a slightly wandering attention.
0:35.5	My name is Eric Tivers. I'm a licensed clinical social worker, coach, and speaker.
0:40.9	The website is ADHD rewired.com. We know that starting is the hardest part, so let's get started. But first, let me tell you about this.
0:53.0	I want to congratulate all the members of ADHD ReWired's 11th season of coaching and accountability groups.
1:01.0	Every Monday in group we ask members to identify what the one thing
1:05.9	they want to make sure they get done by Friday is and then on Friday we check in
1:10.5	with everyone to see how they did.
1:13.5	And during our last Friday session, every member shared what they learned, they reflected on
1:19.6	their growth.
1:21.1	What I want to share with you is one of those members. This is Caitlin.
1:25.6	My one thing was to clean out my car, which did not happen.
1:30.4	But I will say, because I had a lot of changes in my schedule this week that were out of my control so so it's moved it's not just gone away I've just like moved it to today. This is new this is I cleaned out my car like big time at like the very beginning of these 10 weeks, but this is just like a I want to make sure it stays that way so I'm going to very quickly clean it up and get the trash out.
1:52.0	My aha moment for this week actually happened on Sunday.
1:58.0	The two weeks before this week I kind of fell off the wagon a little bit,
2:02.0	I gotten sick and I was starting to get kind of in despair like how am I get you know this is what always happens I always get behind and how am I going to get out of it and then I just had a moment where I was like, I know what to do.
2:14.2	Like I have these skills now that I can pull from to like get me out of this.
2:19.0	And so I just like planned my week Sunday night.
2:21.2	And I was like, I feel so so much better and the next day you said
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