Taking Ownership of Your ADHD

Taking Ownership of Your ADHD

Somewhere along the way, a lot of us with ADHD ended up in the passenger seat of our own lives — reacting, responding, hooking our wagon to someone else's prefrontal cortex — while the bus careens down the road with no one clearly at the wheel.

And then there's the battle with acceptance itself. For ADHD brains, that fight can quietly drain the very cognitive bandwidth we need most — spinning in the "what ifs", the "if onlys", the constant renegotiating with a reality that isn't going anywhere. It's one of the most expensive unwinnable fights we pick.

This week Cameron reads an article he wrote but never submitted — never been heard, until now — on what it actually means to take ownership of your ADHD. His argument: ownership is the ultimate gesture of acceptance. Not defeat. Not a label. A springboard.

The bus metaphor runs through the whole episode: what it means to stop lunging for the wheel, how to do an honest walk-around and check for dings and dents, why you'd want to enroll in bus driving school before taking on a metaphorical downtown Manhattan, and how to decide who gets to ride up front with you.

Cam's Equanimity Class in May

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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

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