ADHD & Unhelpful Drive Mechanisms: Rejection & Approval

ADHD & Unhelpful Drive Mechanisms: Rejection & Approval

In this milestone Episode 20 of Integrating ADHD, Cameron reflects on what it takes to keep showing up, doing the work, and creating meaningful change—especially when rejection and approval quietly become the engines driving our behavior. Drawing from recent teaching, coaching conversations, and his own lived experience, Cam explores why rejection sensitivity and the need for approval, while deeply understandable in ADHD, can become unreliable and costly drive mechanisms over time.

The episode weaves together insights from neurodiversity research, including rejection sensitive dysphoria, hostile attribution bias, and emerging language around autonomy and motivation, alongside Glasser’s Choice Theory and Barkley's four circuits framework. Through client stories and personal reflection, Cam invites listeners to consider what happens when fear of rejection pulls us away from risk, while the desire for approval pulls us toward people-pleasing, over-functioning, and consensus-seeking. Ultimately, this conversation is about integration—learning how to plug back into who you are and why you’re doing the work, so rejection and approval no longer run the show as you move toward impact, meaning, and purpose.

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Episoder(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 Nov 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...

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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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 19min

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