You Are Not Broken: Reframing Depression and ADHD as Unfinished Business

About this episode

Kate Brownfield discusses resilient parenting with Dr. Kate Lund, focusing on managing stress and emotional regulation for parents of children with ADHD.

Host: Kate Brownfield, Certified Whole Person & ADHD Parent CoachGuest: Dr. Kate Lund, clinical psychologist, peak performance coach, TEDx speaker, and author of Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting Episode Overview In this empowering “Kate + Kate” episode, Kate talks with Dr. Kate Lund about what resilient parenting really looks like when you’re raising kids with ADHD, big emotions, or health challenges. Drawing from her own medical journey (hydrocephalus as a child), 20+ years as a psychologist, and parenting 18-year-old twins, Dr. Lund explains resilience not as “pushing through,” but as a lifestyle: managing your stress response daily so you can ride the waves of homework battles, morning chaos, and dysregulated kids. She teaches a simple, science-backed tool—the Relaxation Response—that parents can practice for 5 minutes morning and night to lower reactivity, model calm, and create a more regulated home. If your baseline feels higher than other parents’ because your child is more intense or more dysregulated, this episode will help you stop comparing, honor your real context, and build steadiness you can actually sustain. What We Talk About (Highlights) Resilience…

People in this episode

Host: Kate Brownfield

Guest: Dr. Kate Lund

Topics covered

• resilient parenting
• ADHD
• stress management
• emotional regulation
• parenting strategies

Keywords

• ADHD
• depression
• resilience
• parenting
• stress response
• Relaxation Response
• emotional regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Step Away: The Keys to Resilient Parenting

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