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I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.

Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.

Today I'm here with a very special guest, Scott Killaby. Scott is a noted international speaker, a well-respected enlightenment teacher who has helped thousands of people all over the world.

He's an entrepreneur, a creative spirit, and a prolific author of seven books.

What I'm most excited to talk to Scott about today is addiction and mindfulness and trauma, and what's so amazing about Scott is that he has broken new ground in a number of areas, including being the co-founder and owner of the first two treatment centers in the US to focus primarily on mindfulness, self inquiry, and non-dual awareness as the central path to freedom in recovery.

So pumped he's here with us today to share his wisdom as it relates to addiction and recovery. Hi Scott, welcome. I'm so glad you're here.

Thank you for having me.

So good to be with you. I have been wanting to have an expert on to talk about addiction as it pertains to ADHD and just really in general because so many people with ADHD struggle with addiction.

Statistics vary on the subject, but at least we are at least 25% more likely to have addictive tendencies and that matters a lot because when we're talking about an adult with ADHD who is already struggling with so much and then we add in something like addiction, it just complicates everything.

So would you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you bring to the world?

Yeah, I so I think it was I ever diagnosed with ADHD just to think if I had any personal experience with it.

I remember taking some tests when I was 20 and I don't think they formally diagnosed me, but attention has always been an issue and addiction was my path.

So that's more my experiences growing up as an addict and there's a lot of correlation between that and ADHD about attention, stuff, and emotions, but my path was really addiction.

So I was saying to you real quick, I wanted the audience to hear is that I deliberately didn't research ADHD before this because I want to come from just the organic work that I do to try to talk about it.

So I might come up as like not knowing some of the clinical terms, but try to stick to what I've seen with people in session like indirect experience and just forgive me if I don't think about this some of terminology, but I've been close, it's closely associated with people who had ADHD and they I've worked with them a lot.

So I'm going to draw on that experience, but mainly mine was addiction, so my path that's not dealt with my suffering and what showed up as a diagnosable thing.

Do you mind sharing some of your addiction story with us?

Yeah, because the best way to say is what do you have? Do you have more of it? That's my story.

What kind of thing do you have that I could use and I'll take more of these?

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