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Backpacking Through ADHD is your guide for navigating the twists and turns of ADHD parenting. Whether you’re just starting out or deep in the journey, this podcast offers practical tools, personal stories, and expert advice to help you and your family thrive.
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Becoming Lighter (opens the original)
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What if the things filling our homes are also quietly filling our minds? In this second episode of the Becoming Lighter series, Treenah Kight, founder of Live Energized, shares what has changed since her family committed to letting go of twenty-five percent of their belongings by the end of the year. This is not a conversation about minimalism or creating a picture-perfect home. It is about recognizing the mental and emotional weight attached to clutter, unfinished projects, shopping habits, and
Becoming Together: Preparing for a New Beginning (opens the original)
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Becoming Together: Preparing for a New Beginning New beginnings can be exciting, scary, and overwhelming—sometimes all at once. As we close our five-part Becoming Together series, we're stepping back from the back-to-school logistics to look at something bigger: how we prepare our ADHD kids for all the new beginnings they'll encounter in life. In this episode, I talk about why transitions can carry such an invisible load for ADHD brains, why our kids sometimes fall apart after holding it togethe
Becoming Together: Helping our Kids Understand Their ADHD (opens the original)
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How do we explain ADHD to our children in a way that builds confidence instead of shame? In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we're continuing our Becoming Together series with one of the most important conversations we can have as parents: helping our kids understand how their amazing brains work. Instead of seeing ADHD as something that's "wrong," what if we helped our children see it as part of who they are—complete with incredible strengths, unique challenges, and endless potential?
Becoming Together: Medication, Tics, and Making Impossible Decisions (opens the original)
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Medication decisions are rarely just about medication. They carry questions about identity, side effects, school, confidence, and whether we are making the right choice for the child we love. In this episode of Becoming Together, I share our family’s honest experience with taking a summer medication break, preparing for school, navigating tics, and facing decisions that do not always have one clear answer. We’ll talk about separating fear from what our children are actually experiencing, becomin
Becoming Together: Teaching Social Skills Without Crushing Confidence (opens the original)
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Before we start teaching our ADHD kids social skills, maybe we need to ask a different question. What if the challenge isn't that they don't know how to be a good friend? What if they're simply missing the invisible social cues that so many of us take for granted? In this week's episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we're continuing our five-part Becoming Together series by exploring how to help our children build social awareness without making them feel like they need to change who they are. Th
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