Meet Jeff Copper, ADDCA Graduate and Founder of Attention Talk Radio (3590)

Coaches in Action

Jeff Copper MBA, PCC, CPCC, ACG

ADD Coach Academy graduate, Jeff Copper, President of DIG Coaching, is the founder of  Attention Talk Radio (ATR)  the leading site for self help internet radio shows focusing on ADHD and ADD including managing symptoms of attention deficit disorder, adults with ADD, or adults who have children with ADHD. 

Visit  Attention Tallk Radio (ATR) for Upcoming Shows and Archives of Past Shows.

Positive Thoughts are a Foundation to Flourishing (953)

ADHD Education

Research conducted by Professor Barbara Fredrickson at The Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has indicated that positive emotions hold clear benefits for supporting the creation of a more flourishing life.

One of the foundational pieces for creating a flourishing life is cultivating more positive thoughts and emotions, than negative ones, on daily basis.

But how much more?

Professor Frederickson has conducted research focused on ratios of positive to negative thoughts and emotions.

In 2005 Fredrickson and Losada published an article in American Psychologist to suggest that positivity ratios above about 3-to-1 and below about 11-to-1 are what humans need to flourish.

Basically, it takes allot more work to overcome the negative thoughts which create stress on the health of our bodies and brains.

To learn more about the wonderful work Barbara Fredrickson is doing go to: http://www.unc.edu/peplab/home.html

Understanding your unique brain wiring (1304)

ADHD Quotes

Understanding your unique brain wiring, and educating others in your life about what works best for you, can help you facilitate home, school and workplace environments that honor and serve individuals, each as unique as you are.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. With your own gift… (4906)

ADHD Quotes

"Insist on yourself; never imitate. With your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You live in a world of uniformity, conformity and standard mandated ways of learning and doing things. When you try to be someone that is your natural self, by following rules and regulations that tell you how we should act, you become frustrated and demotivated. You are under constant pressure to perform predetermined standards which do not play to your strengths while trying to be somebody else you are supposed to be. 

You were born with a unique brain wiring like no other in the world. You are possessed with an inner greatness which can only manifest based on the different strengths you possess. When you have barriers that are placed in your path, which you are required to imitate, you are acting out someone else's idea of who you should be and how you should do things. You remain stagnant and your own personal growth becomes difficult, if not impossible. -David Giwerc

Dr. Hallowell’s Response to the NY Times Opinion Piece “Ritalin Gone Wrong” NY Times January 28,2012 (886)

ADHD Education

Regarding the opinion piece "Ritalin Gone Wrong" written by Alan Sroufe, Ph.D., (NY Times, Jan. 29, 2012): As is usually the case when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.

Let me offer a different point of view. I'm an M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist who's been treating children who have what we now call ADHD for over 30 years. I was on the Harvard Medical School faculty for 20 years, and I still see patients in my offices in Sudbury, MA, and New York City every day. I have both ADHD and dyslexia myself. I've co-written, with John Ratey, the best-selling books on the topic of ADHD. I know this condition, and its various treatments, inside and out.