The ADHD Gallery Karen Costa

In the season one finale, Karen begins by checking in on how she’s feeling to have come to the end of the recording process for this season. She then describes the concept of second brains and extended mind theory and why creating external systems can be a life-changing approach for ADHDers.

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Do you love getting a peek into someone’s planning process? Karen describes the planning process that took forty-two years to build, how she’s very intentional about planning in a way that supports her ADHD, and her love of the “Today” button in G-Cal.

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Do you have a love/hate relationship with meditation? Have you felt shame or pressure to meditate “the right way”? This episode is for you. Karen shares her long and complicated history with meditation and offers suggestions for reframing this relationship to better align with our ADHD brains.

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Many ADHDers don’t fit into the world’s boxes. Karen discusses her unique career path that is sometimes best described as “various, various.” She chats about the importance of work values and creating a career that works for weird and wonderful brains.

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Karen tells the story of dropping out of a doctoral program, due in part to her undiagnosed and raging ADHD, and how she’s (kind of) made peace with that decision.

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Time to get super sciency about our ADHD! In this episode, Karen talks about Hallowell and Ratey’s description of what they call the “glitchy switch” of ADHD, which is a dysfunction between the default mode network (DMN) and the task processing network (TPN). Karen describes her experience of having a glitchy switch and how naming and noticing that helps her to recover.

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