Dr. Emily Anhalt: Emotional fitness & success beyond medication

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

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

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 70 with Dr. Emily Anhalt.

"The message we’re given is that we shouldn’t get support until we’re falling apart. That’s like waiting until you have heart disease to start doing cardio."

Dr. Anhalt is a psychoanalytic psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the co-founder of Coa, an online gym for mental health.

Emily was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 7, and her doctoral dissertation (inspired by her own life) was on ADHD and success beyond medication.

We talk all about how an early diagnosis shaped her life and academic pursuits, how her ADHD contributed to her success, and her ongoing efforts to reframe how we treat and talk about mental health.

Emily describes her research into the 7 traits of emotional fitness, and how Coa differs from traditional coaching or group therapy. We also talk about the broader spectrum of neurodiversity and why ADHD diagnoses have been on the rise in recent years.

Website: dremilyanhalt.com Twitter: @dremilyanhalt Emily’s Ted Talk: The Trouble with Normal: My ADHD the Zebra

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1:32.4	And my goal when I dove headfirst into COA was to reframe the narrative of mental health care from being this really reactive thing that we only do when we're unwell, to being a more proactive thing that we do to maintain wellness. I wanted to help people think about working
1:47.9	on their mental health more like going to the gym and less like going to the doctor.
1:55.8	Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the
2:03.1	age of 45 and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life,
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