485 | Big Brains Raising Little Brains with Liz Angoff, PhD

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In today’s show, Eric is joined by Liz Angoff! Liz is a licensed educational psychologist with a diplomate in school neuropsychology, providing assessment and consultation services to children and their families in the Bay area. She is the author of the Brain Building Books and is constantly creating new tools to help parents and providers empower children to help them understand their unique brains. Learn more about Liz and her books at brainbuidingbook.com! In this episode, you’ll hear about Liz’s mission to help neurodiverse kids understand and create their personal narratives, how parents can understand their kids better, how Liz has found purpose through her own anxiety, and using affirming language to communicate. Then, you’ll hear about the importance of articulating and communicating intentions, engaging in self-awareness conversations with kids, acknowledging parent-guilt, when hyper-verbalism and auditory processing collide, transitions, screen time, and more! Find more from Liz at Questions/Topics: [00:02.08] Introducing Liz [00:04:10] Having conversations with kids about their diagnoses & [00:06:38] Liz shares her diagnosis story and her experiences with sensory overwhelm [00:10:11] Eric asks Liz about self-disclosure when talking to parents and kids [00:19:24] Exploring the neurodivergent home of Eric Tivers and problem-solving at home [00:22:31] Identifying the problem and how to better understand a child’s experiences [00:29:02] Iterating: Experimentation, evaluation, and assessment [00:31:42] Addressing concerns as a parent and needs as an adult [00:33:51] Worrying about our kids growing up into adults; What-ifs, jumping to conclusions, and catastrophizing [00:37:22] Eric opens up about what happens at home [00:39:26] The importance of relearning and reintegrating skills when reaching milestones [00:41:58] Transitions, outings, and screen time [00:48:26] Closing thoughts from Liz Resources & Honorable Mentions: Eric’s episode with his son - 483: Neurodivergence Runs in the Family Book: The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D Website: Collaborative & Proactive Solutions - Ross Greene, Ph.D at www.cpsconnection.com 🌟 Have you heard about our Adult Study Hall Community? Go to adultstudyhall.com to join our ADHD-friendly body-doubling community! 🌟 Interested in group coaching and want to take your ADHD management to the next level? Go to coachingrewired.com to get all the up-to-date information on the upcoming season of ADHD reWired's award-winning Coaching & Accountability groups!

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0:00.0	Hey we are kicking off the start of Pride Month with a registration event for our summer coaching and accountability groups. It's on Thursday, June 1st at 12 p.m. Pacific 3 p.m. Eastern.
0:09.2	This group is like a scaffolding for us to move from intention to action.
0:13.0	And the scaffoldings above the muck and the stories and everything else.
0:16.6	If you have a scaffolding in a building, you're renovating.
0:19.5	You could be renovating or renewing it.
0:21.3	And that building is us.
0:22.4	Another thing about this group is that you learn and are held accountable for actually practicing the skills over and over again. And so that's been really, really helpful.
0:30.0	If you're thinking about joining this group, there's really nothing like being with a bunch of ADHDers and that we're a really remarkably diverse group of people.
0:38.0	I was surprised how varied everyone was except for the one thing which is that we all have in HD.
0:43.0	We are also still offering a $500 discount on selected sections.
0:46.5	We'll tell you more about that at the break.
0:48.0	Or go now to coaching rewire.com and add your name on our interest list.
0:53.0	All right, let's go on with the episode.
0:55.0	A.D. rewired episode 485. This is the podcast for those of us with really good
1:06.5	intentions and a slightly wandering attention. I'm Eric Tivers on a licensed
1:10.8	clinical social worker by training and a coach by design.
1:14.0	I'm your host and I have ADHD.
1:16.0	ADHD rewired is a more than just podcast.
1:19.0	We are a community.
1:21.0	We are wired for connection and you are not alone.
1:24.0	Go to ADHD rewire.com to learn how you can join us in our free and secret Facebook group.
1:29.6	Get additional resources for every episode including links to any resources we mentioned on today's show.
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