Elaine Taylor-Klaus is a professional certified parenting coach, speaker, and author of The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More. For most of her life, Elaine struggled with attention and learning issues, and when she was diagnosed with ADHD at age 40, everything made sense to her. This realization later led her to earning a coaching certification, co-founding Impact Parents, and dedicating her life to helping parents raise complex children with ADHD, anxiety, and learning disabilities.

In this episode, Elaine and I discuss what it’s like to live a life with undiagnosed ADHD and reveal the three powerful words that could change your life. We explain how coaching can be an effective tool in managing ADHD despite its difference from therapy and why Elaine teaches parents coaching tools to help raise complex children. We also explore how the brain is an AND, and illustrate how taking care of our children starts with having compassion for ourselves.

“The notion that any of us have a singular experience is absurd. To be human is to always be in some complexity of navigating this and that.” – Elaine Taylor-Klaus

This week on Life in the AND:

• A life with ADHD and how Elaine didn’t realize she had it until she was 40
• The former stigmatizing name of ADHD and how girls were never diagnosed with it
• What it was like for Elaine to live a life with undiagnosed ADHD
• Three powerful words that could change your life
• How coaching is a philosophy different from therapy and why it’s effective in managing chronic conditions
• Radical acceptance and the foundation of coaching and its language
• Why Elaine trains parents in fundamental coaching skills to empower complex children
• Lawnmower parenting and the coach approach to life
• The ripple effect of self-love and self-compassion
• Using the “Up Until Now” mindset to live a more authentic life
• Expanding Impact ADHD to Impact Parents
• The paradox of control

Resources Mentioned:

• Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life by Sari Solden, 2nd Edition
• Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate School and What We Can Do About It by Jerome Schultz

Related Content:

• It’s Time to Replace “Reach Your Potential” with an AND
• I Control My Destiny and So Does “The Universe”

Connect with Elaine Taylor-Klaus:

• Impact Parents
• Impact Parents on LinkedIn
• Impact Parents on Instagram
• Impact Parents on Facebook
• Impact Parents on Twitter
• Elaine Taylor-Klaus on LinkedIn
• BOOK: The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More: What Parents & Teachers Really Need to Know to Empower Complicated Kids with Confidence and Calm

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