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Join Kate of ADHDKidsCanThrive, LLC as she explores and learns more about ADHD from thought leaders, experts and advocates. Kate hopes to engage parents, educators and the general community to help ADHD people reach their highest potential. Kate is a parent, author of How We Roll -A Parent’s Journey of Raising an ADHD child, founder of ADHDKIdsCanThrive.com and former media executive. Have a question or topic you’d like to see covered on this podcast? Go to adhdkidscanthrive.com
Step Away: Resilient Parenting Strategies for ADHD Families
The ADHD Kids Can Thrive Podcast
22 minutes
2 weeks ago
Step Away: Resilient Parenting Strategies for ADHD Families
Host: Kate Brownfield, Certified Whole Person & ADHD Parent Coach Guest: Dr. Kate Lund, clinical psychologist, peak performance coach, TEDx speaker, and author of Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting
Episode Overview
In this empowering “Kate + Kate” episode, Kate talks with Dr. Kate Lund about what resilient parenting really looks like when you’re raising kids with ADHD, big emotions, or health challenges. Drawing from her own medical journey (hydrocephalus as a child), 20+ years as a psychologist, and parenting 18-year-old twins, Dr. Lund explains resilience not as “pushing through,” but as a lifestyle: managing your stress response daily so you can ride the waves of homework battles, morning chaos, and dysregulated kids. She teaches a simple, science-backed tool, the Relaxation Response, that parents can practice for 5 minutes in the morning and at night to lower reactivity, model calmness, and create a more regulated home.
Suppose your baseline feels higher than that of other parents because your child is more intense or more dysregulated. In that case, this episode will help you stop comparing, honor your unique context, and build steadiness that you can actually sustain.
What We Talk About (Highlights)
Resilience as a lifestyle
Managing your stress response
The Relaxation Response (Herbert Benson)
Modeling regulation
Avoiding the comparison trap
“Step away” moments
Ripple effect for ADHD families: Calm first, then coach skills
Resources & Links
Guest: Dr. Kate Lund https://www.katelundspeaks.com/
Book: Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting https://www.katelundspeaks.com/book
About Your Host, Kate
I’m Kate Brownfield, Certified Whole Person & ADHD Parent Coach, author of How We Roll: A Parent’s Journey Raising a Child with ADHD, and host of The ADHD Kids Can Thrive Podcast. I help parents understand ADHD through a whole-person lens—because every child is unique, and so is every family.
🌐 Find me: ADHDKidsCanThrive.com
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Join Kate of ADHDKidsCanThrive, LLC as she explores and learns more about ADHD from thought leaders, experts and advocates. Kate hopes to engage parents, educators and the general community to help ADHD people reach their highest potential. Kate is a parent, author of How We Roll -A Parent’s Journey of Raising an ADHD child, founder of ADHDKIdsCanThrive.com and former media executive. Have a question or topic you’d like to see covered on this podcast? Go to adhdkidscanthrive.com
