Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

Hi everyone, my name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the Attitude Team, I'm pleased to welcome you to today's conversation.

It is part two in a two part series titled when ADHD triggers emotional outbursts, scripts for your flashpoints.

Leading today's presentation is Good Friend of Attitude, Dr. Sharon Sleen. Dr. Sleen is a clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You New.

Working together to empower kids for success in school and life.

And the ADHD solution deck, she specializes in working with children, teens, emerging adults and families living with ADHD as well as anxiety, learning disabilities, autism,

twice exceptionality and other mental health issues. Her unique perspective as a sibling in an ADHD home, combined with decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator, clinician and consultant, assists her in guiding families and adults toward effective communication and closer connections.

Dr. Sleen's lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, motivation, different kinds of learners and the teen brain.

She's a regular contributor here at Attitude and also for psychology today.com. She's a featured expert on mass appeal, WWLP TV and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work.

Her writing has been featured in MSN, the psychotherapy networker, Smith College Studies and Social Work, Attention Magazine, psychcentralenquire.com, all over Attitude, and you can learn more about her at www.DRSharenSleen.com.

We received more than a thousand questions and comments ahead of today's webinar. Some of those came in during part one of this series. So if you're listening and you missed part one or you would like a refresher, I highly recommend going back and listening to that webinar.

It is ADHD expert's podcast episode number 426 and we have actually linked it from the Attitude Magazine, I'm sorry, AttitudeMag.com homepage right now. So you can find it there as well. Go back and listen to it another time. You don't need it for today's conversation, but it is chock full of really great insight and advice.

Today we will be focusing on addressing all of your questions about intense emotions and how to manage them. So Sharon is going to guide us through the challenges of emotional dysregulation, offer us ideas and tools to help us avoid doing or saying things we might later regret.

We're going to work on getting a hold of our emotional reactions with less stress and more compassion. So that is our mission for today. And we will begin with just a little level setting. We're going to ask a poll question for our live audience.

We would like to know what are your emotional triggers. Just please select your answers and you can comment in the text box if you want to tell us more. And then you'll see the results when you submit your response and we'll go over them at the end.

So I'll point out while you do that, you can submit questions anytime during the live event. You can also download the slides by clicking on the event resources section in the webinar screen.

If you're interested in the certificate of attendance, just look for those instructions and an email about an hour after we wrap us and we will also have a transcript available in the coming week.

So if you are listening in replay or podcast mode, you're going to visit attitude mag dot com and search for podcast number four, four, four. I feel like that's a lucky number to access the slides webinar, replace or to get attendance and all that other good stuff.

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