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I Have ADHD Podcast

289 Self-Awareness (And Why People With ADHD Suck At It)

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

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

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Self-awareness is one of our deficient executive functioning skills and it can REALLY hold us ADHDers back if we're not careful. Feel like you make the same mistakes over and over? That's in part because of lack of self-awareness. Feel like you don't know yourself, who you are, and what you want? Yeah, that's because your self-awareness isn't great. In this episode, my client Joe Corpus is here to discuss his path to self-awareness and the crucial role that acceptance played in the process. J...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching

0:11.6

for adults with ADHD. I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD. Let's chat about

0:18.6

the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships,

0:22.7

working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

0:26.6

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

0:32.4

point B.

0:33.7

Hey, what's up?

0:35.1

This is Kristen Carter, and you've tuned in to the I have ADHD podcast. I am

0:39.6

medicated, caffeinated, sort of regulated, and ready to roll. I'm here today with my client,

0:47.2

Joe Corpus, and we're going to be talking about self-awareness, which is something that he has been

0:52.0

working on and has made so much progress in.

0:55.1

And it is something that really impacts our ability to make progress, to reach our potential,

1:01.1

and to become the people that we want to be. I don't think we talk enough in our ADHD

1:06.1

community about self-awareness and about the skills that go into being self-aware and why we,

1:13.6

ADHD, or struggle with it so much. And we're diving into it today. As we get started,

1:18.5

I want to remind you to press that like button, press that follow button, share all of the

1:23.7

things, leave a comment. If you resonate with our conversation, just drop a comment

1:28.6

and I will absolutely respond to you. I love it. And you hear me saying this every week.

1:34.5

But like this is just what we have to say because I absolutely love it. When you interact with

1:39.7

the show, first of all, it gives me a major dopamine boost. And then second of all,

1:48.4

it allows the show to grow and other ADHDers to find it.

1:58.1

So as we get rolling here, I really want to make sure that we're clear about the two main skills that go into being self-aware.

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