ADHD & Stimulation: Embracing the Sixth Need

ADHD & Stimulation: Embracing the Sixth Need

What if the restlessness, risk-taking, and novelty-seeking that comes with ADHD isn't a character flaw — but an unmet need? In this episode, Cameron introduces the concept of the "sixth need": stimulation. Drawing on the five need models of Maslow's hierarchy and Glasser's Choice Theory, Cam makes a case that conventional needs models are missing something essential for the ADHD brain.

With characteristic candor (and some wonderfully ill-advised stories from his early 20s involving small sailboats and ceiling fans), Cam explores how an unrecognized need for stimulation can quietly hijack your week — sending you chasing shiny objects or avoiding anything that might add more noise to an already overloaded system.

The good news? There's a three-step path forward: awareness, embracing the need, and integration. Because the goal isn't to suppress your need for stimulation — it's to channel it into the meaningful, high-impact work you actually want to be doing.

Part of the ongoing series on using the week as a unit of time.

Cam's Hierarchy of ADHD Needs

Cam's Group Coaching Offering Equanimity

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(51)

Pushing Back on the Tide of Tasks

Pushing Back on the Tide of Tasks

The tide is relentless. It comes in twice a day, and it floods everything. Cam relays a story from a client who got caught in a frenetic scramble to prepare for houseguests and stopped to ask why she ...

6 Marras 24min

Seeking Meaning Beyond Masking

Seeking Meaning Beyond Masking

A friend listened to last week’s Over/Under ADHD model and said it reminded him of Foursquare, with him as the ball bouncing between squares. Overthinking, overdoing, underthinking, underdoing: that m...

31 Loka 23min

The Over/Under ADHD Model

The Over/Under ADHD Model

Your brain isn’t stuck in one gear. It’s constantly moving. Cameron sketches a plus sign on a piece of paper (or in the sand, if you’re on a beach) and introduces a new tool: thinking and doing across...

23 Loka 26min

Developing a Meaningful Impact Mindset

Developing a Meaningful Impact Mindset

You can’t hunt meaning down. It arrives when you’re present enough to receive it, and presence is exactly what ADHD makes hard. Cameron starts on the paddleboard, where seventeen geese flew straight a...

16 Loka 26min

Pick Up the Pieces

Pick Up the Pieces

Season 2 begins. Ten weeks after the Season 1 finale, Cam is back in the seat and picking up where he left off. This episode looks at why people with ADHD keep setting down what already works while ch...

9 Loka 21min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 10: Learning to Embrace Completion

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 10: Learning to Embrace Completion

Season One's finale, and it's a milestone: week 10 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, episode 46, and the close of an entire arc. Cam turns his attention to a concept that's been quietly present the w...

31 Heinä 25min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 9: Looking Back with Kindness and Accuracy

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 9: Looking Back with Kindness and Accuracy

Week 9, and the Ten-Week Integration Reset is coming in for a landing. Before looking ahead to the finish, Cam turns the lens backward — because for people with ADHD, looking back can go sideways fast...

17 Heinä 31min

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 8: The Whole is Greater...

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 8: The Whole is Greater...

Week 8 of the Ten-Week Integration Reset, and Cam is living the material in real time. Facing a full day — training prep, a class to teach, a "command performance," and client sessions — he catches hi...

10 Heinä 19min

Suosittua kategoriassa Terveys ja hyvinvointi

unicast
aamukahvilla
vakeva-elama-viisaampi-mieli-vahvempi-keho
meditaatiot-suomeksi
tiedenaiset-podcast
psykopodiaa-podcast
rss-kuumilla-aalloilla
rss-uplevel-by-sonja-hannus
katilon-kahvitunti
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
rss-pt-paahtio
selviytyjat-tarinoita-elamasta
rss-adama-mindful-hetki
rss-rentoudu-podcast-rentoutumiseen-hanna-viljanmaa
rss-mighty-finland-podcast
junnut-pelissa
rss-taysi-voima
terapiassa
rss-sanelunpurku-podcast
mielen-puolikkaat