Backpacking Through ADHD
Backpacking Through ADHD
Podcast Description
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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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on various topics related to ADHD parenting, including emotional dysregulation, late diagnoses, and behavior management. Example episodes like 'The ADHD Plot Twist' explore the emotional journey following a late diagnosis, while 'Creative Chaos' celebrates the unique strengths of ADHD minds. Additional episodes provide practical strategies for managing routine challenges and fostering resilience in ADHD families.
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.
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
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