EP. 263: Melinda Shepherdson's Odyssey from World Explorer to Adventure Bush Therapy

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Melinda Shepherdson’s sense of adventure has led her up mountains, down rivers, and across the world. Her long list of travel destinations is impressive, but what Melinda cares about most on these adventures is her connection with nature. The outdoors provides her with regulation, energy, positivity, and helps to calm her ADHD mind–all benefits she knew she had to share with others when starting a business. In the last few years, Melinda discovered the Adventure Bush Therapy space and partnered with an experienced outdoor education specialist to create small group programs for children, including autistic individuals and those with ADHD, anxiety, and intellectual disabilities. The work allows her to combine her passion for nature with her desire to help children and the results are pretty incredible. Join my conversation with Melinda to hear her personal ADHD journey, what her travels have taught her, how she was able to pivot from occupational therapy into the career she has today, the differences in medication when you have ADHD vs. AuDHD, and so much more. Resources: Website: Email: [email protected] Video of a beautiful song our women's choir sang - definitely worth a look. I'm in it!

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0:00.0	Bush Adventure Therapy,
0:02.0	Therapy, it's a wilderness adventure therapy in the US.
0:05.0	It's a relatively new field.
0:07.0	There's a thing called the biophilia hypothesis,
0:10.0	which basically means that as humans we have an innate connection to nature and it's
0:16.4	actually been proven that when we're in nature it actually changes all our
0:19.6	physiological responses so lowers our heart rate,
0:23.3	rebalances all of our body chemicals and things. Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carvel.
0:37.0	Wait a minute.
0:40.0	Where are the women?
0:48.0	Greta Gerwick, Lisa Ling, Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
0:51.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of
0:55.8	industries. They all have ADHD but you don't hear much about that now do you?
1:01.0	You know what else you don't hear about are the 43% of people with
1:05.5	ADHD who are in excellent mental health. Why aren't we talking about them and
1:11.1	what they're doing right. I'm your host Tracy
1:14.4	Azuka and that's exactly what we do here. I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong
1:20.6	student and now the author of my new book ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:25.6	I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is a-okk.
1:32.1	A patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck
1:36.8	and fall in love with their brilliant brains. Here, we embrace our too muchness and we focus on our strengths. My guests and I credit our
1:46.3	ADHD for some of our greatest gifts. And to those who still think they're too much, too impulsive, too scattered,
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