What Most Parents Get Wrong About ADHD | Jheri South (Bonus Episode)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
For those who are new here, I release bonus episodes that speak to a niche part of my audience. If this one isn’t quite what you’re looking for, feel free to explore the other episodes that dropped this week or join me back here next Tuesday for a conversation you won’t want to miss!
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Today’s guest says the hardest part of motherhood isn’t the noise or the mess - it’s the invisible chaos happening inside us. Jheri South is an ADHD and parenting coach, a mom of seven neurodivergent kids, and a powerful voice for families navigating overwhelm. After surviving single motherhood, a late ADHD diagnosis, and helping her son through a suicide attempt, she transformed her lived chaos into practical tools and life-changing clarity for others.
In this episode, Jheri shares the real story behind mom overwhelm, ADHD, autism, and anxiety - and why traditional approaches often fall short. We talk about how coaching can create breakthroughs, how to parent neurodivergent kids without constant power struggles, and how to rebuild connection when everything feels like it’s falling apart.
If you’ve ever felt lost, overloaded, or unsure how to help your child—or yourself—this conversation brings hope, honesty, and a path forward.
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Jheri's Resource: Dr. William Dodson
- Connect with Jheri:
- Website
- Youtube
- ADHD Quiz
- Parenting Teens with ADHD
About Jheri |
Jheri South is a passionate advocate for teenagers, young adults, parent-child relationships, and individuals with ADHD. She empowers families, schools, and organizations to grow together, communicate effectively, and build healthier connections. Jheri is an ADHD Specialist, Teen & Parent Coach and the founder of Headspace Hub.
Jheri Supports individuals with ADHD through coaching (not therapy) AND also Empowers ADHD Brains with Practical Strategies that Actually Work. Jheri is the mom of 7 neurodivergent kids and she is one of the ONLY Certified Master ADHD Coach Instructors.
From being a corporate airline trainer to teaching in the school systems, Jheri has extensive training in teaching, educating & skill implementation. Jheri teaches her clients how to self coach, how to feel empowered, and how to improve self confidence and overcome bad habits that hold you back from showing up for life the way you want to!
As the creator of ADHD Simplified, Jheri is helping individuals change their lives through 1:1 coaching, online learning and in person workshops.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For those of you that are new around here, I release bonus episodes that serve a niche part of my audience. |
| 0:04.4 | This content is not something that you're looking for. Check out the other episodes that dropped this week. |
| 0:08.8 | Or join me back here next Tuesday and Thursday for conversations that you don't want to miss. |
| 0:13.8 | All this time, it wasn't my personality. It was my wiring. And there's a difference between the two. |
| 0:23.3 | And then understanding it more. Because, you know when they think of ADHD they think of the hyperactive boy that can't sit still |
| 0:27.5 | in class they're not really thinking about oh you mean ADHD is just as much not being hyper |
| 0:34.9 | and overthinking and not being able to sleep and not being able to regulate |
| 0:38.6 | your emotions. I had no idea. But it really started to make sense for me and I realized how |
| 0:43.8 | important it was for me to learn more about this diagnosis, not just for me, but to really help my |
| 0:50.8 | children. This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the minimalist moms podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | Today's guest says the true overwhelm of motherhood might not be found in the noise of daily |
| 1:00.1 | life, but in the quiet chaos we're holding inside. |
| 1:03.5 | That were too overwhelmed, too exhausted, or even too ashamed to talk about. |
| 1:07.8 | She has lived through the kinds of storms most parents pray they never face. |
| 1:11.7 | She's seen what unchecked stressed, undiagnosed ADHD, and silent suffering can do to a family. |
| 1:17.4 | And after years of battling her own spiraling overwhelm, she discovered something shocking. |
| 1:22.5 | The tools that saved her children, her home, and her sanity weren't found in a therapist's office. |
| 1:26.8 | They were learned through coaching, mindset shifts, and her sanity weren't found in a therapist office. They were learned |
| 1:27.9 | through coaching, mindset shifts, and radical self-awareness. My guest, Jerry South, is here today |
| 1:33.6 | to talk about the truth behind ADHD, autism, anxiety, and the emotional landmines that families |
| 1:38.8 | live with every day. We explore why traditional approaches often fall short, how coaching can create breakthroughs where |
| 1:45.5 | years of therapy sometimes can't, and what it looks like to parent without power struggles |
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