Saints with ADHD | An Interview with Rebecca Buffington
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Buffington is a credentialed ADHD coach, helping others see where Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects their lives and how they can create a game plan to overcome obstacles and move toward their goals. She studied at Brigham Young University and is the parent of four children—three of whom have been diagnosed with ADHD. Seeking to help her own family, Rebecca began learning more about ADHD and trained at the IACT Center in both individual and parent/family coaching. She now works to eliminate misunderstanding about this neurodevelopmental disorder and help guide others toward making lasting changes that will lead to greater success in their lives.
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Adult ADHD: What You Need to Know (Russell Barkley, PhD)
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The podcast episode delves into the topic of ADHD providing valuable insights into the challenges faced by individuals with this disorder, especially in a church context. The discussion highlights the impact of ADHD on executive functions, time management, and task completion. Rebecca emphasizes the importance of understanding ADHD as a neuropsychological disorder rather than a character flaw. She also addresses the need for leaders to approach individuals with ADHD with compassion, patience, and a willingness to provide support tailored to their needs. The episode underscores the significance of positive reinforcement, breaking tasks into manageable steps, and fostering a supportive environment for individuals with ADHD to thrive. Additionally, the conversation touches on the role of medication and the importance of seeking professional help when necessary. Overall, the episode offers valuable insights for leaders in understanding and supporting individuals with ADHD within a religious community.
03:32 Understanding ADHD and its Impact
06:03 Difference Between ADHD and ADD
06:40 ADHD in Adults and Children
09:10 ADHD as a Superpower and Explanation, not an Excuse
11:34 Religious Context and ADHD
13:06 Diagnosis and Importance of Diagnosis for ADHD
15:11 Medication and Treatment for ADHD
17:02 Impact of ADHD on Reverence and Behavior
19:37 ADHD in Women and Girls
22:06 Dopamine and ADHD
23:57 Executive Functions and ADHD
26:28 Approaching ADHD in Leadership Roles
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever heard of scrupleocity? |
| 0:04.0 | This is a mental health concern that is impacting more Latter-day Saints than you think. |
| 0:09.0 | Scrupleocity is religious, obsessive, compulsive disorder disorder where individuals are |
| 0:13.7 | hyper obsessed about their worthiness and repentance. |
| 0:16.8 | Sam Baxter, a former Bishop, sat down with me to talk about his lifelong |
| 0:20.8 | struggle with scruplocity and how he got treatment. |
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| 0:48.0 | Before we jump into the content of this episode, I kind of feel it's important that I introduce myself. |
| 0:58.0 | Now many of you've been around a long time, you're well familiar with my voice and with Leading Saints as an organization, but if you're not, well, my name is Kurt Frankham and I am the executive director of Leading Saints and the podcast host. Now saints is a nonprofit organization dedicated helping |
| 1:15.4 | Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead and we do that through well content |
| 1:19.4 | creation like this podcast and many other resources at leading saints.org and we don't act like we have all the |
| 1:26.0 | answers or know exactly what a leader should do or not do but we like to explore the concepts of leadership, |
| 1:32.4 | the science of leadership, what people are researching |
| 1:34.8 | about leadership and see how we can apply them to a Latter-day Saint world. |
| 1:39.2 | So here we go. Welcome back to another episode of Leading Saints and in this episode I talk with |
| 1:48.2 | Rebecca Buffington who is a life coach with a specific emphasis on ADHD. That's right. It's |
| 1:55.2 | attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I think that's right. She clarifies it |
| 2:00.1 | defines it, gives us all the groundwork that we need to understand to work with people in our |
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