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Backpacking Through ADHD
by Tera Greenwood
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.
Episodes
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Becoming Lighter
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...
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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…
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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...
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Becoming Together: Medication, Tics, and Making Impossible Decisions
Medication decisions are rarely just about medication. They carry questions about identity, side effects, school, confidence, and whether we are making the right choice for the child we love. In this episode of Becoming Together, I share our family’s honest experience with taking a summer...
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Becoming Together: Teaching Social Skills Without Crushing Confidence
Before we start teaching our ADHD kids social skills, maybe we need to ask a different question. What if the challenge isn't that they don't know how to be a good friend? What if they're simply missing the invisible social cues that so many of us take for granted? In this week's episode of...
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Becoming Together: What I'm Afraid of This School Year
As another school year begins, many of us are carrying more than backpacks and school supplies. We're carrying questions, hopes, and fears that we rarely say out loud. Will my child make friends? Will their teacher understand them? Will they come home believing they're enough? In this first…
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Becoming in the Messy Middle: Same Ocean, Different Boats
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera is joined by Lisa Richer, founder of Journey2Bloom, for a grounded conversation about ADHD, parenting, advocacy, burnout, masking, learning differences, and the messy middle of becoming. Lisa is a neurodiversity consultant, neurodivergent success...
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Becoming Confident: When You're "Too Much" and Still Worthy
As the school year comes to an end, many ADHD kids aren't just counting down to summer—they're carrying the emotional weight of months spent trying to focus, fit in, regulate big feelings, and hold everything together. When that invisible backpack gets too heavy, emotions often spill over. What...
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Becoming Understood: What’s Really Happening Beneath ADHD Behaviors
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera sits down with clinical psychologist and behavior analyst Dr. Katrina Ostmeyer for a powerful conversation about what’s really happening underneath ADHD behaviors. Together, they explore emotional regulation, the nervous system, perfectionism,...
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Becoming a Friend: Repair after the Impulse
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re talking about something that happens fast, often, and sometimes leaves a mark we don’t know how to fix: what happens after the impulse. This conversation is especially for ADHD kids who have ever had a moment they wish they could take back… and…
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Becoming Regulated: When Your Nervous System Runs the Meeting
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera explores what happens when the body is carrying more than anyone can see. Becoming Regulated: When Your Nervous System Runs the Meeting is a conversation for women with ADHD who look composed on the outside but know how much effort it takes to…
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Becoming a Weather Reporter: Naming Feelings Without Shame
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re talking about what it means to help kids name their feelings without shame. So many ADHD kids feel things deeply and quickly, but when the words don’t come fast enough, what gets noticed first is the behavior. The tone. The tears. The shutdown.…
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Becoming Lighter: The Energy Reset Zone
If your home feels like a constant restart, you’re not failing—you’re carrying too much. In this quarter’s Becoming Lighter collaboration, I’m joined by Treenah Kight for a simple, permission-based conversation about reclaiming energy in real life. We’re talking about the Energy Reset Zone: one...
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Becoming Unmasked: Belonging Without Performing
What if the version of you everyone praises is also the version that’s wearing you out? In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera talks about unmasking from a very real place—not as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone who’s been high-functioning for a long time and is...
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Becoming Brave: When Brave Looks Like Telling the Truth
Becoming Brave at School is about the kind of courage ADHD kids practice every day, even when no one calls it brave. In this episode, Grayson joins me as we talk about what school bravery really looks like: starting when your brain feels stuck, coming back after a hard moment, repairing when…
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Becoming: You Are Not Behind. You Are Becoming.
After almost two months of space, reflection, and quiet intention, a new season begins. In this first episode of 2026, Tera introduces Becoming — a year-long exploration of identity across generations. What does it mean to become who you are as a child navigating ADHD? What does it mean to become...
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The Year of Reflection
2025 was my reflection year, the year Backpacking Through ADHD began, the year I found my voice, and the year everything changed. In this special season finale, I’m closing out my very first year of the podcast by looking back on the journey that shaped it all. I reflect on why I started this…
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Joy, Dopamine and December
December can feel magical… and completely exhausting — especially for ADHD brains. In this cozy, fireside-style episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera Greenwood slows things down and gently explores why the end of the year hits ADHD adults and kids so hard. From the dopamine chase and burnout...
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The ADHD Gift Guide
December shopping with an ADHD brain is not for the faint of heart. You go in for one thing, come out with seven, forget two, and somehow still feel like you missed something important. If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you. In this week’s episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, I’m…
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Holiday Survival Guide
December is here… which means joy, chaos, glitter explosions, forgotten gifts, sensory overload, emotional intensification, and that magical moment where you decorate for 12 minutes and then mysteriously lose your entire holiday spirit. If you’re an ADHD adult, parent, or part of an ADHD family —...
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Thankful, Grateful and Slightly Feral
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re leaning into the beautiful contradiction of being both wildly grateful and slightly chaotic. Because let’s be honest, gratitude with ADHD doesn’t always look calm and collected. Sometimes it’s loud, messy, and alive. In this episode, Tera explores what...
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Thankful, Grateful, Blessed.
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re slowing down and taking a deep breath to explore the power of intentional reflection. 🌿 So often, ADHD brains race toward what’s next—or replay what went wrong. But what happens when we pause to notice what’s right? In this cozy, heart-forward…
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Gratitude, Grace and Grit
What happens when ADHD meets the chaos of midlife? When emotional regulation collides with hormonal imbalance, and everything—focus, patience, even mental stability—feels like quicksand? In this powerful, heart-forward episode, host Tera Greenwood explores three pillars that help ADHD minds…
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Neurodiversity in Action – Lead Differently
This week, Tera Greenwood takes listeners behind two very different stages — the AZA Conference and the Colorado Neurodiverse Chamber of Commerce — to explore what it really means to Lead Differently. From stories of zookeepers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs to reflections on vulnerability and…
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Love, Friendship, and the ADHD Connection
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re exploring the kind of love that steadies us — the friendships that regulate our ADHD brains and remind us we’re not alone. From heart-hat dinners with lifelong friends to working side-by-side with a best friend who celebrates nonlinear thinking, this...
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Rising Above Labels: Defying Gravity with ADHD
After the “Fiesty” episode, a listener asked me a question that stopped me in my tracks: "What do you do with the weight that comes with owning who you are?" That conversation inspired this week’s episode—Rising Above Labels: Defying Gravity with ADHD. In this deeply personal episode, we’re…
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Weekend Trails – Finding Rest, Rhythm, and ADHD Balance
Weekends: freedom, chaos, or both? In this energized episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re unpacking why unstructured time can be so tricky for ADHD brains—and how to turn those 48 hours into something that actually restores us. Tera explores the messy middle between productivity and peace,...
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Feisty: Reclaiming ADHD Female Identity
What happens when women with ADHD get called “bossy,” “too blunt,” “difficult,” or “too much”? In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, host Tera Greenwood flips the script on the word feisty. From family stories to workplace moments, Tera explores how the very traits often criticized in ADHD...
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Kinder, Braver, Together
What if the ADHD journey could be guided by three simple words: kinder, braver, together? In this week’s episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, I’m exploring how these words aren’t just ideals—they’re practical tools for both parenting ADHD kids and living with ADHD as an adult. We’ll talk about…
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Rule Maker
Parenting ADHD means becoming the “rule maker”—but that doesn’t mean playing drill sergeant. In this episode, I explore the messy middle of setting boundaries while leaving space to bend. From the chaos of chore charts that collapsed, to the nights when breaking bedtime rules meant saving...
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If I Had One Wish: Understanding ADHD
If I had one wish, it wouldn’t be for money, success, or even more hours in the day. My one wish is that ADHD was understood by everyone. Not tolerated. Not brushed aside. Truly understood. In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, I take the “Make a Wish” hat and use it to explore what life...
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Forged in Fire- Words, Wounds, and Building Real Resilience in ADHD Friendships
Words have power, and for ADHD kids, they often carry an even heavier weight. In this week’s episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re leaning into the theme “Forged in Fire,” a phrase that reminds us how strength is shaped in the heat of challenge. When Grayson asked me to buy this hat, I...
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The Invisible Backpack: What Our ADHD Kids Carry to School
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re unzipping something you can’t see in a classroom photo but every ADHD child carries: the invisible backpack. 🎒 Inside that backpack? Anxiety. Social pressures. Masking. Sensory overload. Perfectionism. The things that weigh our kids down, even when no...
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Back to School: Real Life Edition-Navigating Week One with ADHD
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re unpacking the real story of back-to-school—the space where carefully crafted plans meet ADHD reality. From messy backpacks and emotional buckets to teacher check-ins and small wins, I share what really happens during the first week of school and why...
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Lead with Love
Back-to-school season is a high-stakes transition for every family, but for ADHD families, it’s layered with invisible pressure, emotional spirals, and deep questions about belonging. In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, I’m sharing a heart-centered guide to navigating the return to…
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Letting Go of Linear Paths
In this week’s solo episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, Tera puts on her new “Social” hat—not to make noise, but to embrace the quiet. Episode 31, titled “ Letting Go of Linear Paths,” is a reflection on the messy, beautiful, nonlinear nature of growth—especially for those of us with ADHD. We’ve...
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ADHD Women and Lost Girl Syndrome
Turning 50 has a way of pulling everything into focus, and for me, that meant finally understanding the winding, often misunderstood journey so many ADHD women walk. In this episode, we explore “Lost Girl Syndrome,” a term that describes how ADHD in girls and women is so often missed, masked, and...
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Identity Shifts
I used to think that in order to collaborate or connect, I had to dilute parts of myself. That the tangents, the emotional spirals, the ideas that came in bursts—those things had to be hidden or softened. But I’m learning that the right people don’t just tolerate those things—they value them.…
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ADHD an Anxiety: Living Between Labels
In this episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re exploring what it means to live in the gray space between ADHD, anxiety, and identity. If you’ve ever felt misdiagnosed, mislabeled, or just misunderstood, this one’s for you. I share my own story of discovering ADHD later in life and how anxiety...
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Going Nowhwere Fast
Ever feel like you’re doing everything and getting nowhere? Like your brain is spinning while your body stands still? This week, we’re unpacking ADHD paralysis, time blindness, and that strange mental traffic jam that leaves us frozen, yet totally overwhelmed. If you’ve been stuck, shaming…
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Take Risks to Be Successful – ADHD, Impulsivity, and the Power of Intuition
Impulsivity is one of ADHD’s most misunderstood traits—often mistaken for carelessness or recklessness. But what if impulsivity isn’t a flaw? What if it’s a signal, a strength, even a kind of intuition? In this episode, I unpack the difference between impulsivity and instinct, and explore how...
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I’ll Bring the Good Times-Joy, Dopamine, and ADHD Regulation
This week’s episode of Backpacking Through ADHD is inspired by the hat “I’ll Bring the Good Times”, and the unexpected star wearing it: my dog, Lucky. But behind the laughs and cuteness is a much bigger message. Joy isn’t something we earn after we’ve checked all the boxes. For ADHD brains, joy…
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Love Freely- ADHD, Unconditional Connection, and the Courage to Be Seen
This week on Backpacking Through ADHD, we’re diving deep into one of the most powerful and challenging concepts in ADHD family life: unconditional love. Inspired by the “Love Freely” hat, this episode explores what it means to show up with love in the moments that test us most. From parenting...
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Flipping the Script: Embracing the Unknown with ADHD
Ever feel like you need all the answers to feel okay? Same. This week’s episode is a day late—but right on time emotionally. Inspired by a hat with an upside-down question mark, we’re talking about sitting with uncertainty, asking better questions, and why curiosity might be our greatest ADHD...
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Be the Kindness: How Compassion Resets the ADHD Journey
In this week’s episode of Backpacking Through ADHD, I’m leaning all the way into a theme that’s been on my heart—and sitting right on my head. My hat this week says Be the Kindness, and that’s exactly where we’re going together. This episode is a deep, emotional, and at times raw exploration of…
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Mothering Through the Maze: ADHD, Intuition, and the Legacy of Love
In this deeply personal episode, I share my belated Mother’s Day tribute to the woman who raised a neurodiverse household without ever needing a diagnosis herself. My mom doesn’t have ADHD—but she parented three ADHD brains with grace, grit, and intuition that rivaled any expert playbook. Through...
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Under the Hat: The Stories They Tell Themselves: Rewiring ADHD Self-Talk and Identity
In the final episode of our “Under the Hat” series, we dive into the identity stories our ADHD kids tell themselves—and how those stories are often rooted in shame, perfectionism, and years of correction without recognition. From “I’m stupid” to “I always mess up,” we explore where these thoughts...
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Under the Hat: Fuel, Focus & Fidgets:
In this episode of Under the Hat, we unpack the real, daily needs of the ADHD brain—movement, nutrition, sensory input, and the tools that actually help kids regulate and focus. Inspired by the Brain Boosters series and layered with personal experience, this episode explores what it means to fuel...
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Under the Hat: What ADHD Kids Wish We Knew
In this kickoff episode of my new series, Under the Hat: What ADHD Kids Wish We Knew, I take you inside the real struggles behind ADHD behavior and how we can reroute the parenting and teaching roadmap with compassion, structure, and calm. Inspired by the Calm Parenting Podcast and Kirk Martin’s...
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The Patience Trail - Navigating ADHD and Life’s Traffic Jams
This week, I’m solo on the mic — and feeling it — as I dive into one of the hardest lessons for ADHD brains: patience. Inspired by a weekend stuck on I-70 (again), I’m sharing real stories, including the birth of my son, and unpacking why waiting feels so impossible for us. We’ll talk time...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
HOSTED BY
Tera Greenwood
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