Backpacking Through ADHD

Tera Greenwood
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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. Explore the peaks, valleys, and unexpected paths of ADHD with resilience, support, and camaraderie to make the trek a little easier.

  1. 6 ngày trước

    Same Ocean, Different Boats: ADHD, Advocacy, and the Messy Middle

    In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera is joined by Lisa Richer, founder of Journey2Bloom, for a grounded conversation about ADHD, parenting, advocacy, burnout, masking, learning differences, and the messy middle of becoming. Lisa is a neurodiversity consultant, neurodivergent success partner, late-diagnosed ADHD woman, and mom of two neurodiverse sons. Together, Tera and Lisa explore what it means to be in the same ocean but different boats, why no two ADHD journeys look exactly alike, and how curiosity can change the way we understand ourselves and our kids. They talk about defiance versus dysregulation, the emotional weight parents carry, how diagnoses can inform without defining, and why asking “Help me understand how” may open more connection than asking “why.” If you are parenting a neurodivergent child, navigating school support, questioning what your child needs next, or rediscovering your own ADHD identity later in life, this conversation is for you. For consultation and support, visit Lisa at journey2bloom.com. Song of the Episode: “A Beautiful Noise” by Alicia Keys & Brandi Carlile

    55 phút

  2. 6 ngày trước

    Becoming Confident: When You're "Too Much" and Still Worthy

    As the school year comes to an end, many ADHD kids aren't just counting down to summer—they're carrying the emotional weight of months spent trying to focus, fit in, regulate big feelings, and hold everything together. When that invisible backpack gets too heavy, emotions often spill over. What adults sometimes see as overreacting, defiance, or attitude may actually be a nervous system that's simply exhausted. In this heartfelt episode of Backpacking Through ADHD: Becoming, Tera speaks directly to the child who has ever wondered if they're "too much"—too emotional, too sensitive, too loud, or too difficult—and reminds them of a truth every child deserves to hear: You do not need to become smaller to deserve love. Together, we'll explore: Why the end of the school year can be especially challenging for ADHD kids How emotional exhaustion affects behavior The difference between being overwhelmed and being "too much" Why rejection and friendship struggles can feel so much bigger with ADHD How parents can see the child beneath the behavior What real confidence looks like for an ADHD brain Whether you're listening with your child or on your own, this episode is an invitation to replace shame with understanding and to remember that our hardest moments never define our worth. Song of the Episode: Brave – Sara Bareilles Because being deeply emotional doesn't make you too much. It makes you human. And you are still worthy.

    14 phút

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    Becoming Understood: What’s Really Happening Beneath ADHD Behaviors

    In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera sits down with clinical psychologist and behavior analyst Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer for a powerful conversation about what’s really happening underneath ADHD behaviors. Together, they explore emotional regulation, the nervous system, perfectionism, masking, and the difference between defiance and dysregulation—especially in children who don’t yet have the words to explain what they’re feeling. Tera also shares personal parenting moments with Grayson, including a recent experience on the baseball field that left her questioning how parents are supposed to respond when behavior looks intentional on the outside, but feels like something deeper underneath. Dr. Katrina brings both professional expertise and lived experience as a parent of two neurodivergent children, creating a conversation that feels grounded, validating, and deeply human. This episode is for: Parents trying to understand what’s underneath big reactions Women navigating ADHD and emotional overwhelm later in life Anyone who has ever felt misunderstood in their struggles Because sometimes behavior isn’t about defiance. Sometimes it’s a nervous system asking for support. To learn more about Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer and Beyond the Individual, including virtual services, visit: www.beyondtheindividual.com Song of the Episode: “Human” – Christina Perri If this episode resonated with you, please follow, review, and share Backpacking Through ADHD with someone who might need this conversation too.

    1 giờ 1 phút

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    Becoming a Friend: Repair after the Impulse

    In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re talking about something that happens fast, often, and sometimes leaves a mark we don’t know how to fix: what happens after the impulse. This conversation is especially for ADHD kids who have ever had a moment they wish they could take back… and for the parents and caregivers helping guide them through it. When emotions move faster than words, ADHD kids can react before they fully process what they’re feeling. But this episode isn’t about shame, blame, or “fixing” behavior. It’s about teaching something deeper: repair. Because friendship isn’t built on getting it right all the time. It’s built on noticing, reconnecting, and learning how to come back after hard moments. Throughout the episode, Tera shares practical language kids can use, ways parents can model repair at home, and gentle reminders that ADHD kids are not “bad friends” — they are learning a more complex version of friendship rooted in emotional awareness, empathy, and resilience. This episode is also deeply personal. Although Grayson isn’t joining Tera for this conversation, the episode is written for him knowing he’ll listen someday — making it feel like a heartfelt letter to him and to every child learning how to navigate connection, mistakes, and belonging. Song of the Episode: Brave — Sara Bareilles Because bravery isn’t always loud. Sometimes bravery is saying, “I’m sorry.” Sometimes it’s asking, “Can I try that again?” And sometimes bravery is simply choosing to come back into the moment after wishing you could run away from it. If this episode resonates with you, please follow, review, and share Backpacking Through ADHD with someone who may need this reminder today. Keep going. Keep practicing. Keep becoming.

    11 phút

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    Becoming Regulated: When Your Nervous System Runs the Meeting

    In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera explores what happens when the body is carrying more than anyone can see. Becoming Regulated: When Your Nervous System Runs the Meeting is a conversation for women with ADHD who look composed on the outside but know how much effort it takes to stay steady underneath. Tera reflects on the difference between functioning and feeling regulated, the invisible load so many women carry into work, motherhood, relationships, and leadership, and the quiet ways nervous system overload can shape how we think, react, and move through the world. She also shares a personal reflection on what it means to feel safe in your body, the power of being deeply known, and why regulation is less about becoming less emotional and more about becoming more honest about what support looks like in this season of life. This episode is especially for women navigating ADHD in midlife, where hormones, emotional labor, and changing capacity can make old systems stop working the way they used to. If you’ve been wondering why everything feels heavier than it once did, this conversation is for you. Follow, share, and leave a review if this episode speaks to you. It helps more listeners find the podcast and join the journey. Here is a slightly shorter Podbean version too, in case you want something tighter: In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera explores the quiet kind of overload that hides inside competence. Becoming Regulated: When Your Nervous System Runs the Meeting is for women with ADHD who are still functioning, still showing up, and still wondering why everything feels harder in their body than it used to. This episode unpacks the difference between composure and regulation, the invisible load women carry into work and home, and the impact of ADHD, midlife, hormones, and emotional labor on the nervous system. It is a grounded, honest conversation about support, self-trust, and what it means to build a life that feels more sustainable from the inside out.

    20 phút

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    Becoming a Weather Reporter: Naming Feelings Without Shame

    In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re talking about what it means to help kids name their feelings without shame. So many ADHD kids feel things deeply and quickly, but when the words don’t come fast enough, what gets noticed first is the behavior. The tone. The tears. The shutdown. The frustration. This episode explores a gentler way in by thinking about feelings like weather. What if instead of expecting kids to explain everything perfectly, we helped them notice whether they feel stormy, foggy, sunny, rainy, or mixed? I was originally planning to record this episode with Grayson, but he decided he didn’t want to join me this week, and honestly, that became part of the message too. Kids are allowed to have preferences. They are allowed to tell the truth about what they feel. And honoring that matters. This conversation is for the child with big feelings and for the parent trying to respond with understanding before shame gets there first. We talk about emotional language, after-school meltdowns, fairness, repair after hard moments, and why feelings are not failures. They are part of becoming. If you’ve ever wanted a simpler, more compassionate way to help your child talk about what’s happening inside, this episode is for you.

    18 phút

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    Becoming Lighter: The Energy Reset Zone

    If your home feels like a constant restart, you’re not failing—you’re carrying too much. In this quarter’s Becoming Lighter collaboration, I’m joined by Treenah Kight for a simple, permission-based conversation about reclaiming energy in real life. We’re talking about the Energy Reset Zone: one small, intentional space that helps reduce decision fatigue, lower the mental load, and create a softer landing when ADHD life gets loud. This isn’t about a perfect house. It’s about nervous system support. It’s about fewer “where did I put that?” moments, fewer unfinished loops staring at you, and more ease returning to your day. In this episode, we explore how to choose the right zone for your real life, how to give it one clear purpose, and how to use it as a repeatable reset—without shame, without all-or-nothing thinking, and without turning it into another thing you “should” be doing. If you’ve been feeling scattered, overstimulated, or stuck in reaction mode, this episode is your reminder: you’re allowed to set some of it down. You’re allowed to create support. You’re allowed to begin again. Song of the Episode: Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Follow Backpacking Through ADHD so you don’t miss the next step on the trail, and if this episode helps you, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review—it’s one of the biggest ways you can help other families and women find this community.

    12 phút

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    Becoming Unmasked: Belonging Without Performing

    What if the version of you everyone praises is also the version that’s wearing you out? In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera talks about unmasking from a very real place—not as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone who’s been high-functioning for a long time and is starting to feel the weight of it. When you’re the capable one, the dependable one, the one who “gets it done,” it can be hard to admit how much effort it takes to look that put together. This conversation is about the desire to unmask. The longing to stop performing your way through your own life. The exhaustion that comes from perfectionism, overthinking, over-preparing, and carrying an invisible second job: managing how you’re perceived. You’ll hear a grounded, honest look at: What masking looks like for high-achieving women with ADHD Why it can feel so risky to be real, even when you want to be What belonging actually means when you’re used to earning your place Small, practical ways to begin unmasking without blowing up your life Song of the Episode: “Unwritten” — Natasha Bedingfield

    15 phút
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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. Explore the peaks, valleys, and unexpected paths of ADHD with resilience, support, and camaraderie to make the trek a little easier.

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    Tera Greenwood
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    2025 - 2026
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