Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind
DBT for Adult ADHD
Excerpted from the full blog which you can read here:
Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind
My Own Journey
I first began to investigate how DBT might be an appropriate treatment for adult ADHD after receiving my ADHD diagnosis at around age thirty and as an intensively trained DBT practitioner. Making this early connection between DBT and my ADHD, I found core mindfulness practices to be helpful with self-acceptance, opening paths within me to become a more integrated person, as I cultivated acceptance and self-compassion, I felt less anxious about ADHD and began to soften my efforts to project a “Super Scott” facade to those around me. No one was buying that facade, by the way. More recently, my relationship with my wife Mariah, an ADHD therapist and certified coach, inspired me to learn more about ADHD per see, and to more rigorously explore adapting DBT for ADHD adults. Together, we have begun to develop Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind. We have found that the DBT skills modules do address the array of ADHD-related problems.
Core Mindfulness and Beyond.
Core mindfulness is a framework for the practice of paying attention to present moment experiences with gentle and open curiosity that helps us to connect with our respective wise mind, a state of deep knowing in which we experience the balance of reason and emotion, and we connect with our intuition. We cultivate wise mind with the whats and hows of mindfulness. Mindfulness informs all the other skills and immediately germane to adult ADHD, mindfulness helps us increase sustained attention, task initiation, and completion, and even offset the pangs of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), become less subject to the negative effects of criticism or perceived criticism. Mindfulness entails a whole-person awareness, and shouldn’t be conceptually relegated to a strictly discursive or cognitive practice that takes place in the skull. As we learn mindfulness, we connect more fully with our whole selves, we cultivate mindsight as described by Daniel J. Siegel, MD. We become more integrated, relating more directly with our embodied lives, bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. More about this in future blogs.
Excerpted from the full blog which you can read here:
Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind
My Own Journey
I first began to investigate how DBT might be an appropriate treatment for adult ADHD after receiving my ADHD diagnosis at around age thirty and as an intensively trained DBT practitioner. Making this early connection between DBT and my ADHD, I found core mindfulness practices to be helpful with self-acceptance, opening paths within me to become a more integrated person, as I cultivated acceptance and self-compassion, I felt less anxious about ADHD and began to soften my efforts to project a “Super Scott” facade to those around me. No one was buying that facade, by the way. More recently, my relationship with my wife Mariah, an ADHD therapist and certified coach, inspired me to learn more about ADHD per see, and to more rigorously explore adapting DBT for ADHD adults. Together, we have begun to develop Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind. We have found that the DBT skills modules do address the array of ADHD-related problems.
Core Mindfulness and Beyond.
Core mindfulness is a framework for the practice of paying attention to present moment experiences with gentle and open curiosity that helps us to connect with our respective wise mind, a state of deep knowing in which we experience the balance of reason and emotion, and we connect with our intuition. We cultivate wise mind with the whats and hows of mindfulness. Mindfulness informs all the other skills and immediately germane to adult ADHD, mindfulness helps us increase sustained attention, task initiation, and completion, and even offset the pangs of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), become less subject to the negative effects of criticism or perceived criticism. Mindfulness entails a whole-person awareness, and shouldn’t be conceptually relegated to a strictly discursive or cognitive practice that takes place in the skull. As we learn mindfulness, we connect more fully with our whole selves, we cultivate mindsight as described by Daniel J. Siegel, MD. We become more integrated, relating more directly with our embodied lives, bodily sensations, thoughts, and emotions. More about this in future blogs.
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