Journey With Me Through ADHD: A podcast for kids

What do working memory, flexible thinking, emotional control, self-monitoring, time management, organizing, impulse control, initiating a task (getting started), planning and prioritizing have in common!!?  If you said these are all skills that we need to function from day to day, you are 100% correct! These are all of those executive function skills that can feel tricky for our busy brains sometimes! We don't all struggle with every skill, but I would love for you to highlight the skills above that may feel tricky for you to tackle from day to day!  In this episode, we are jumpstarting this conversation about tricky executive function skills that we need to build a customized toolbox for! These are skills that need to be exercised and trained to grow stronger! It will never be a one size fits all either. You must look at the challenge areas and build your toolbox based on trying different tools and strategies and discovering what works best for you personally!!  This series will help you begin your journey of discovering different tools and strategies in the different areas of struggle so you can begin to trial and error what works best for you from day to day! Practice make progress and it's super important to trial tools and strategies when you are regulated emotionally!  You will meet and hear from my newfound friend, Executive Function Coach, Carrie Bonnett. She shares ger expertise in this area as we get our series started! You can find Carrie at www.carriebonnett.com and discover all of the awesome resources/support she has to offer too!  Visit me at www.katelynmabry.com to share your thoughts on this series with me or if you'd like to share a personal audio clip on the show to share which executive function tools are helpful for you too!  Below is an executive funtion wheel created by another ADHD Coachin who lives in Europe (hense the spelling differences;) This is a great, simplified resource to see each skill and identify which of them you'd like to practice use tools and strategies to grow in!  Executive Function Wheel  

Do you ever change your bedroom around when you get bored of the set up? Does your brain get excited when a novel idea comes flooding in!? That's because our brains crave novelty. This means that my brain craves novelty too and wants to change up my podcast intro song!! This is where you come in! I need your brilliant mind with it's creativity and out of the box thinking abilities to help me come up with a new intro for this podcast! Should it be a rap, more classical sounding, another fun ditty that sounds little different?! I want you to email me at [email protected] with your thoughts and ideas! I also want to encourage you once again to share your voice!! The more we know, the more we can connect and grow! When you send it an short audio clip of your personal experiences, struggles, strengths, areas of question, etc. We can highlight these things on this podcast, learn from each other, and bounce ideas of what tools and strategies are helpful, along with questions that may need clarification so you can take steps forward! Email me your audio clip or a request for a prompt/question that you can go off of! I want this year to be collaborative as we grow together on our ADHD journey!  If you'd like to take it one step further and look into ADHD Life Coaching, I'd love to set up a free consultation with you! You can set that up at www.focusforwardadhd.com and/or you can also connect with me to check out my book and other resources on my personal website www.katelynmabry.com .  Love you all and can't wait to hear from you!

I pray you all had a wonderful Christmas, given you celebrate! If not, I pray you are finding joy each day! It's fun to look in the mirror sometimes and just be silly, it's it? In this episode, you will hear some ideas shared by kids around the world about what they find calms their mind and body down. I personally use exercise and prayer as my ways to release and relax, but what is it for you personally? This is a time for self-reflection as we enter a new year and I ask you to look in the mirror and investigate what helps your own nervous system, mind and body find calm. Visit www.katelynmabry.com to message me to share your ways of finding calm!

You might think..."But I don't want to breath!" What if I told you that it could actually be fun AND give oxygen to your brain, which would help you to calm your nervous system, mind and body down in those big feeling moments?! During this rerun episode you will hear from the breathing queen and mindset coach, Jessica Brittani, who will re/introduce us to a foundational technique, a piece of armor, so we can breath in a way that will help us find calm during this holiday season!  My hint for this episode is "birthday!" ;)  You can find Jessica at www.calmandcolorful.com to order her coloring book or set up a consultation with her. You can also visit www.katelynmabry.com , to set up a coaching consultation with me, order a book, or find more helpful resources.