498 | Will I Ever be Content? with Dana Crews, MA, MBSR, ADHD-CSP

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In today’s show, Eric is joined by Dana Crews! Dana has been a coach, educator, facilitator, and trainer in the behavioral health and mental health field for over 15 years. She is currently combining her own personal practice, unique life experience, and education in the ancient wisdom traditions together with modern psychology and behavioral and neuroscience research in her newly-created mindfulness ADHD life-coaching business: Second Arrow Life Coaching! Dana is an advocate for invisible disabilities and neurodivergence. She believes that knowing and connecting to your core values and practicing basic mindfulness and yogic techniques allows us to transform self-judgment and fear into constructive reflection, insight, compassion, health, and creative solutions. Find Dana on LinkedIn Learn more about Dana at her website secondarrowlifecoaching.com Find Dana on Instagram @secondarrowlifecoaching Questions/Topics: [00:01:11] Introducing Dana [00:03:08] What is the difference between satisfaction and contentment? [00:05:03] Exploring contentedness and its different avenues [00:06:32] Where is the overlap and what is separate between contentment and gratitude? [00:11:51] A discussion about the discomfort in familiarity [00:14:24] Is the struggle of holding onto contentment an issue of emotional self-regulation? [00:20:00] How much of the struggle around contentment comes from societal ideas of feeling content and ADHD brains needing novelty? [00:21:40] A discussion on Buddhist psychology and philosophy [00:23:52] How does one strive through the lens of Buddhist philosophy? [00:27:27] Not thinking about the future vs. over-planning for the future [00:29:40] Overidentification, rumination, and separation of self [00:31:32] How much of being able to experience being content has to do with resilience? [00:39:40] Dana shares more about growing up, undiagnosed ADHD, travel, and meeting the Dalai Lama [00:41:58] What is Ayurveda? [00:44:33] How can self-awareness inform our understanding of our experiences? [00:46:30] A moment of an idea of contentment [00:48:26] Closing thoughts 🌟 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	When we're uncovering those moments of aha when we're uncovering those blind spots right
0:06.2	whether it's through coaching or therapy or friendship or relationship that's the
0:11.5	struggle that's the hard part but it's also the beauty, right?
0:14.4	Like this is what makes life beautiful, too.
0:18.9	If you're listening to this on the day it came out, or about to be in September, so happy September.
0:24.6	It does sure seem like time was flying by because our fall season of coaching and accountability groups
0:30.3	is coming up fast, starting October 12 12th which means registration for our fall
0:35.1	season is happening now so if you miss our first two fall registration events
0:40.3	because the times didn't quite work out for you and good news.
0:43.7	We're having an evening registration event this week on Thursday, August 31st at
0:49.3	430 PM Pacific, Eastern.
0:53.0	That's this week on Thursday, August 31st at 430 PM Pacific,
0:58.0	730 PM Eastern.
0:59.5	Go to coaching rewired.com to get started
1:02.3	with your pre-registration process.
1:04.4	We'll have more information at the break.
1:06.8	Now let's get on at the show!
1:08.8	Welcome back with another episode of ADHD rewired. We are joined today by Dana Cruz.
1:19.0	Dana has been a coach, educator, facilitator, and trainer with the behavioral health and mental health field for
1:25.9	over 15 years. She is currently combining her own personal practice, unique life experience,
1:32.4	and education in the ancient wisdom traditions
1:35.6	together with modern psychology, behavioral, and neuroscience research, inherit newly created
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