Two ADHD Brains, One Household: Kendall's Tools for Couples and Cloudy Days

About this episode

Megs and Kendall discuss the challenges of managing ADHD and mental health as a parent and how to communicate emotional struggles to children.

If you've ever struggled to explain a hard mental health moment to your child — or wondered how to hold your ADHD brain together as a parent — this episode is for you. Megs sits down with Kendall, mental health advocate and children's book author, to talk about something most of us never learned how to do: make our inner emotional world visible to the people who love us most. Kendall shares her journey from lifelong anxiety diagnosis to ADHD discovery, how postpartum depression cracked her op...

People in this episode

Host: Megs Crawford

Guest: Kendall

Topics covered

• ADHD
• mental health
• parenting
• anxiety
• postpartum depression
• emotional communication

Keywords

• ADHD
• mental health
• parenting
• anxiety
• postpartum depression
• emotional visibility
• couples tools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: children's book author

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