ADHD and Getting Distance from the Adrenaline Response Cycle

Ash and Cam shift from exploring the phases of the Adrenaline Response Cycle to discussing how to become less beholden to the cycle. The hosts share that this work is central to any ADHD coaching relationship - locating motivators other than urgency and hyperfocus to get things done. Ash and Cam focus on three main discussion points in today’s episode.

• Building awareness around how we can rationalize our avoidant behaviors prolonging the Delay phase.
• Building awareness of how we can hunt for meaning in everything we do and everything we don’t do.
• And starting to shift away from our binary (now/not now) approach to time and urgency.

The hosts also look at how awareness of big signals can help to create important new learning about the ARC process. Cam and Ash share numerous examples of how each individual’s approach to this dilemma is unique to that individual and the significance of owning one's own process here. Ash shares a different take on the “Just do it!” approach, and both hosts discuss the importance of popping the ‘fantasy bubble’ and share the limitations of popular phrases like time blindness. Finally, the hosts talk about how they use concepts like emotion, space and social connections to make time more discernible for both Cam and Ash.

Episode links + resources:

• Join the Community | Become a Patron
• Our Process: Understand, Own, Translate.
• About Cam and Asher
• More on ARC from Cam’s Blog
• Adrenaline Response Cycle (image below)

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