Energy Management: Emotional Energy (Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Emotional Energy isn't as cut and dry as physical energy - there are no emotional calories that we can track and measure. And while there is no scientific delineation of how to measure emotional energy it’s still something that we can all feel - we're not robots. We know that when we're feeling those positive emotions that sometimes we can barely contain the energy we're feeling - when we're seething with rage it can feel like we're going to burst. When we're sad it can feel like we want to melt into our beds and never be seen again. When we're overstressed it can feel like if we don't do something our skin is going to crawl off but even the idea of attempting that first step still feels like too much

Our emotions play a big role in our energy levels throughout the day. Just because we don't have a good way to measure them doesn't mean that we should write them off.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

Our emotions play a big role in our energy management throughout the day - but emotions are complicated. While we can derive energy from both positive and negative emotions, we're better off using the energy from our positive emotions - The energy we draw off of emotions like fear or anger often comes with a price.
We want to build our emotional intelligence by trying to observe ourselves - check-in with yourself throughout the day and ask, what am I doing? and how is that making me feel? You can also go beyond that by asking how you feel about the emotions you're feeling.
When scheduling your day make sure that you are giving yourself time to recover after emotionally draining activities.
If you need a quick fix to calm yourself down, try taking deep belly breaths. Deep breathing creates a physiological response that encourages your body to relax - as your body relaxes, your mind will follow.
Give yourself some time to let yourself think. With ADHD we spend a lot of our day go from one distraction to the next - but when we let ourselves have the goal of just letting our minds wander it can help us explore how we're feeling and recharge our emotional batteries.

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0:00.0	A little over four years ago, I enrolled in ADHD rewired's coaching and accountability groups.
0:05.5	It's an intensive 10-week-long program, but it was a life-changing experience.
0:10.9	By the time I finished my 10-week coaching session, I had gotten so much out of the program
0:15.1	that I decided to sign up to help as a peer mentor, and I did that several more times
0:19.6	after that as well.
0:25.4	I have no doubt that I would have ever started this podcast had I not gone through these groups, and the ongoing support I get from the ADHD rewired community.
0:30.2	These groups are intensive, but I had reached a point where I knew something had to change
0:34.9	in my life if I wanted to keep moving forward.
0:38.0	Listening to this podcast is a great start for helping your ADHD, but to get the changes
0:42.3	you want to see, you have to put in the work. I know for me, often I found that while I was
0:47.5	willing to put in the work, I was choosing to do it in the hardest way possible. These groups
0:52.4	help give you direction and make those steps a little bit
0:55.3	easier. So if you're looking to grow and you're ready to add coaching, accountability, and
1:00.7	community into how you hack your ADHD, I want to encourage you to check out ADHD rewired's
1:06.5	coaching and accountability groups. It's a 10-week program. They meet three times a week and small groups of 12,
1:12.9	and then you'll also be meeting twice a week with your four-person
1:15.4	accountability team.
1:16.6	As well, you'll also check in with your accountability team a few times a day over chat,
1:20.2	and now they're even offering evening groups,
1:22.2	which absolutely wasn't a thing when I went through them.
1:25.6	There's a bunch more information at their website, CoachingreWired.com.
1:29.7	You want to add your name to the interest list.
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