EP. 280: Dr. Sharon Saline: The Stress-Anxiety-ADHD Nexus

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Did you know there's such a thing as productive anxiety and toxic anxiety? One can give you a boost, while the other can drag you down. Managing ADHD, anxiety, time management, and social expectations can be tricky, but they also open doors to self-discovery and growth. Dr. Saline, with over 30 years of experience and a strengths-based approach, offers down-to-earth advice to help you tackle social anxiety, emotional regulation, and time management, especially during life transitions like menopause. Her personal and professional insights help smart women manage their busy brains and use their intelligence as a tool, not a mask.

In this episode, Dr. Saline breaks down how to understand and handle anxiety. She helps women tell the difference between productive anxiety, which can be a helpful motivator, and toxic anxiety, which can feel overwhelming. Her tips include being self-aware and using practical strategies like setting realistic time goals and trying out visual meditation techniques to stay emotionally balanced.

Dr. Saline, author of the award-winning book What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew, specializes in working with ADHD and neurodivergent individuals of all ages, helping them improve cognitive and social skills, resilience, self-confidence, and personal relationships. She consults internationally with schools, clinics, and businesses, runs a private practice, and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith College School for Social Work. Additionally, she is a blogger for Psychology Today, a contributing expert on MASS Live, and hosts a bi-weekly Facebook Live event for ADDitude Magazine. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including MSN.com, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, and Attention Magazine.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Tracy, and welcome to EDHD for Smart Ass Women.
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0:42.0	practical advice, and real relatable stories.
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0:51.2	Once again, the link is Spy Happy. Me, forward slash support. Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carville,
1:08.6	wait a minute. Where are the women?
1:17.0	Greta Gerwick, Lisa Ling, Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
1:21.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of industries.
1:26.7	They all have ADHD, but you don't hear much about that now, do you?
1:31.2	You know what else you don't hear about are the 43% of people with ADHD who are
1:36.5	in excellent mental health why aren't we talking about them and what they're
1:41.1	doing right I'm your host Tracy Tracy Asuka and that's exactly what we do here.
1:47.0	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student,
1:51.0	and now the author of my new book,
1:52.0	ADHD for smart-ass women. I'm also a
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