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coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

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This is Kristen Carter and you've tuned into the I Have 8th D

podcast.

I am medicated, caffeinated, and ready to roll and today we're going to talk about that mean

voice in your head. We're going to talk about how to quiet the inner critic. But before we do, please make sure to like, subscribe, turn on

notifications, do all the things. Don't forget that if you have ADHD, your

working memory really sucks

and you might watch this episode or listen to this episode,

love it and then forget that it exists.

So make sure to like and subscribe so that every Tuesday I am back here in your feed with

another episode. I want to know if you have had the experience of shaming yourself, yourself up being a jerk to yourself pretty

much all day long or getting trapped in a shame spiral. That is so distracting. It's so hard to function when that happens and it is a common experience for those of us with it HD.

I want to let you know that I've been studying how to quiet the inner critic for the last six

is months for myself and also to help my clients in my coaching program and the three

books that have been the most helpful to me are John Bradshaw's

healing the shame that binds you. This book was a shockingly good read and really really helpful to me and I've implemented a ton of his tools

into my own coaching. Next up we have a complex PTSD from surviving to thriving by Pete Walker.

This book was recommended to me probably 97 times before I finally broke down and read it

and it is so good. I wish I hadn't waited so long so I highly recommend it and then

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