Backpacking Through ADHD is your guide for navigating the twists and turns of ADHD parenting. Whether you’re just starting out or deep in the journey, this podcast offers practical tools, personal stories, and expert advice to help you and your family thrive. Explore the peaks, valleys, and unexpected paths of ADHD with resilience, support, and camaraderie to make the trek a little easier.
What if the things filling our homes are also quietly filling our minds?
In this second episode of the Becoming Lighter series, Treenah Kight, founder of Live Energized, shares what has changed since her family committed to letting go of twenty-five percent of their belongings by the end of the year.
This is not a conversation about minimalism or creating a picture-perfect home. It is about recognizing the mental and emotional weight attached to clutter, unfinished projects, shopping habits, and the many open loops that can be especially overwhelming for an ADHD brain.
Treenah explores how reducing what competes for our attention can create more room to rest, think, connect, and become who we are meant to be. She also offers a simple, ADHD-friendly invitation to begin: one drawer, one shelf, one bag, or one decision at a time.
The goal is not simply to own less. It is to carry less.
9 Aug 2026
Becoming Together: Preparing for a New Beginning
Becoming Together: Preparing for a New Beginning
New beginnings can be exciting, scary, and overwhelming—sometimes all at once.
As we close our five-part Becoming Together series, we're stepping back from the back-to-school logistics to look at something bigger: how we prepare our ADHD kids for all the new beginnings they'll encounter in life.
In this episode, I talk about why transitions can carry such an invisible load for ADHD brains, why our kids sometimes fall apart after holding it together all day, and what it means to support them without trying to remove every obstacle from their path.
We'll also talk about the backpack parents carry—the hope, worry, questions, and desire to get everything right—and why our children may need to see us navigating uncertainty, making mistakes, and becoming right alongside them.
In Parent University, I'm sharing The Whole-Brain Child by Dr. Daniel Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, along with a simple New Beginning Conversation you can have as a family.
Because preparing our children for what's next isn't about giving them the entire map.
It's about helping them trust themselves enough to take the next step—and making sure they know they'll never have to walk the trail alone.
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3 Aug 2026
Becoming Together: Helping our Kids Understand Their ADHD
How do we explain ADHD to our children in a way that builds confidence instead of shame?
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we're continuing our Becoming Together series with one of the most important conversations we can have as parents: helping our kids understand how their amazing brains work.
Instead of seeing ADHD as something that's "wrong," what if we helped our children see it as part of who they are—complete with incredible strengths, unique challenges, and endless potential?
Together we'll explore:
Why understanding ADHD builds confidence and self-awareness.
How to explain executive functioning in language children can understand.
Practical ways to help kids become their own best advocates.
Why knowing their strengths is just as important as understanding their challenges.
Simple conversations every family can start today.
This week's Parent University features The ADHD Dude, Ryan Wexelblatt, and a practical family lesson designed to help your child recognize what helps their brain thrive.
Whether you're raising a newly diagnosed child or simply looking for better ways to talk about ADHD, this episode will leave you with encouragement, practical tools, and a renewed reminder that our goal isn't to change our children—it's to help them understand themselves.
Song of the Episode: The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
Because the greatest gift we can give our children isn't helping them become someone else...
It's helping them discover the incredible person they're already becoming.
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