About this episode

Tessa MacKay discusses how her experience with cognitive training and art has helped her manage ADHD and dyslexia.

Tired of ADHD strategies that don’t work? Start with my this training: Stop Trying to “Fix” Your ADHD. You’re Not Broken: https://programs.tracyotsuka.com/sign-up _____ Tessa MacKay can spend hundreds of hours on a single painting. Her photorealistic work can look almost indistinguishable from a photograph, but for Tessa, that precision became more than technique. It became a way to work with her ADHD, dyslexia, and the way her brain processes the world. An Australian oil painter diagnosed...

People in this episode

Host: Tracy Otsuka

Guest: Tessa MacKay

Topics covered

• ADHD
• cognitive training
• art therapy
• dyslexia
• brain processing

Keywords

• ADHD
• cognitive training
• dyslexia
• photorealistic painting
• brain processing

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