Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

I'm Susan Kaufman.

I'm Susan Kaufman. I'm here for Attitude magazine and you are listening to Attitudes

ADHD experts. Today's topic is blame, excuses, defensive behavior. As adults of ADHD, we've all been affected by the sense

that something's deeply wrong with us and we've begun to ask ourselves what's

wrong with me why doesn't anyone understand what's happening to me and really to fall back on a whole set of defensive behaviors that are almost second place to those of us of ADHD.

I'm very pleased today to welcome Joyce Cubic. She is one of the first people to really

address this emotional side of ADHD that we're all beginning to turn to nowadays.

She's a certified master coach, which is the highest level of coaching. She's an ADHD coach and skills trainer.

She's president of the ADHD coaches organization and I recommend that to you ADHD coaches.org if you're looking for a coach and she has lots of other degrees in psychology and so forth.

Joyce is the author of a really terrific memoir called Unravelling ADHD I love her subtitle how I turn my

greatest deficit into my greatest asset and it's one of the few memoirs about living with

ADHD and she describes her childhood in early adult years when she did not

understand what she was going through and then what happened when she got diagnosis and how she

changed her life. So you can find that on her website which is called

bridge to success dot net or on Amazon.com and that's again unraveling ADHD. Joyce is also the author of Plan for Success, which are

Planning Journals and Systems for Time Management for both students and adults.

Hugely helpful, very highly recommended by those who've used them.

Also available, it's called Plan for Success on Amazon and on her website,

Bridge to Success.net.

Today, Joyce is going to talk about how to understand the feelings that come along with attention deficit and why we use blame defensiveness and excuses so commonly in our lives.

So Joyce, thank you so much for being here today. We're excited to have someone with your experience and personal experience with this topic.

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