Let us know what you gain from this conversation. May you feel support around normalizing these topics and gain your own insight to whatever you may be curious about, wondering about and navigating for yourself, the children and youth you are raising, for your clients, family members and friends.

Show notes.
00:13:57-The conversation with Alane begins.
00:14:59- Julie shows off a touching mother’s day gift from her boys and Alane talks about her 22 year old son wishing her Happy Mother’s Day.
00:21:00- What does it mean to have accommodations at school for kids with certain challenges.
00:24:45 – Through the lens of High Sensitivity and those with the trait of sensitivity: The world is designed for the majority of people (80%). How do the 20% take exams? What about multiple choice exams and self-assessments? And who’s designing these assessments and curriculum anyway?
00:28:15- Alane’s hack for succeeding with self-assessments.
00:30:02- The complexity and importance of understanding neuro-divergence and mental illness.
00:33:00- HSP can look like ADHD, how?
00:36:45- Anxiety, overwhelm and high sensitivity.
00:40:55- ADD and ADHD, the distinctions.
00:47:00- Misdiagnosis- Is it ADHD or HSP? How to prevent a misdiagnosis.
00:51:00- Can both HSP and ADHD be present in an individual?
00:51:40- How do we treat anxiety and ADHD?
00:53:30- The tweet that activated Julie’s biological alarm system. A post by Adam Grant.
00:54:49- #WaitUntil8th
00:58:48- One way to support mental health in your kids.
01:02:00- Executive Functioning, clarified.
01:04:10- Differentiating between high sensitivity and ADHD.
0:1:07:10- Julie speaks about her experience with anxiety, as a HSP.
01:08:10- #1 most effective treatment for anxiety, according to Alane, clinically.
01:14:10- Medication for ADHD and its effectiveness. Being curious about potential misdiagnosis for an HSP.
01:15:44- Ways to connect with Alane.

WATCH our conversation here on YOUTUBE.
https://youtu.be/NzSKQnpyp1Q

Here are links from my previous podcast conversations with Alane.
https://juliecusmariu.com/2023/01/highly-sensitive-person/highly-sensitive-parents-a-conversation-with-alane-freund-and-julie-cusmariu/
https://juliecusmariu.com/2020/09/voices-that-create-change/alane-freund-on-being-a-highly-sensitive-person-in-uncertain-times/
https://juliecusmariu.com/2018/08/julie-in-conversation-motherhood/alane-freund/

Alane’s talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKDnsns2bg

Are you Highly Sensitive? Take the self-test here.

A (Canadian) Public Health Approach to Population Mental Wellness

What is Mental Health? What is Mental Illness?

Find Alane here:

Links to events at https://www.alanefreund.com/events/

Follow Alane IG- https://www.instagram.com/areyouhighlysensitive/

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyBDAaWBU6qcI71BAR2rdg

Meet Alane Freund, LMFT, International Consultant on High Sensitivity www.alanefreund.com & www.areyouhighlysensitive.com

Alane Freund, MS, MA, is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS) and family therapist who helps highly sensitive adults and youth focus on solutions through education, consultation, and speaking. She has developed numerous programs for highly sensitive people and clinicians, including her monthly workshops at Are You Highly Sensitive. She is known for her widely recognized Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person. Alane Freund can be reached through her website, alanefreund.com.

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Nicole Mahabir, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga Therapist based in Toronto, Canada (- JAI Yoga and Ayurveda – Centre for Wellness and Education), graced the podcast waves offering her wisdom and practical solutions to help us ease anxiety and create health in our nervous systems.

You will indeed be soothed by this hour, by Nicole’s presence and wisdom and valuable insight shared to help us navigate these changing times.

Also in this conversation:
Nicole shares 3 accessible and simple breathing techniques to help relieve stress and anxiety, what it means to create space in our bodies and how we can do that, and wisdom on navigating uncertainty and the unknown.

You can also find her wonderfully helpful and practical articles on CBC.ca, like this one https://www.cbc.ca/life/wellness/simple-techniques-for-relief-from-fear-and-anxiety-1.5517952

Nicole is the founding director of JAI Wellness and is a certified International Yoga Therapist, certified Ayurveda Practitioner, Ayu-Yoga Therapist and Energy Medicine Practitioner with over 3000 hours of study and teaching.

She has lead professional certified courses in Ayurveda, Ayu-Yoga and Yoga Therapy for the past 15 years. She is also seasoned teacher of natural medicine, holding designations and extensive practice of Shamanic Healing Masters, Reiki Masters and Ayurvedic Neurotherapy.

Cheers to you and thanks for tuning in.
Share in the comments what you gained and share the conversation with your friends and those who you know will benefit.

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In these specific times (and in ‘ordinary’ times as well) having a full cup or remembering what that feels like can seem distant and forgotten. No kidding, right?

This past Wednesday I returned to host my podcast. My cup got filled. Getting a quiet hour these days are moments filled with grace and appreciation.
Not a minute after I closed the mic and ended the recording my boys (9 and 6) stormed lovingly through my door. Ahhh….Podcast out into the ethers it went and can be found wherever you find your podcasts and here www.JulieinConversation.com

Here it is. Healing for me and I’ve heard from some listeners, for them too. It’s personal, and felt noticeably more vulnerable than most podcasts AND it fed my soul and overall health. I connected with listeners and shared how I have been looking for and finding light in what often feels like a dark tunnel these days.

There is a guided meditation that starts around minute 36 with music, (always music throughout the podcast) and its an offering that dropped in for us for a few minutes to relax and feel supported and bring health to our nervous system. It is an hour from the heart, its an invitation, a meditation, a reflection, time to connect to you and for you.

May it be of benefit. And share it with those you know it may benefit as well in these times.
Cheers to you.

#motherhoodinthetimeofcorona
#motherhoodinapandemic #trustyourself #honoryourselfhonortheplanet #honoreachother
#voicesthatcreatechange
#nervoussystemhealth #montreal

An hour to reconnect, meditate to a guided visualization, ground and more with host, montreal life coach and intuitive, Julie Cusmariu. May this hour land where it may for you, for us all. With you, in my mind and heart. Thanks for being here and being you.

For more on navigating sensitivity, anxiety, being an empath, intuition and motherhood visit www.JulieinConversation.com

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“Anxiety is a doorway.” “There is a crucial difference between managing anxiety and viewing anxiety as a gift and a doorway into healing.” Sheryl Paul.

Sheryl Paul is an author and counselor in the depth psychology tradition. She has guided thousands of people worldwide through her private practice, her bestselling books, her e-courses and her website. Julie Cusmariu is a Montreal based life coach, intuitive consultant and the producer and host of Julie in Conversation.

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Sheryl Paul, M.A., has guided thousands of people worldwide through her private practice, her bestselling books, her e-courses and her website. She has appeared several times on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, as well as on “Good Morning America” and other top media shows and publications around the globe.

www.Conscious-Transitions.com

“Anxiety is a doorway.” “There is a crucial difference between managing anxiety and viewing anxiety as a gift and a doorway into healing.” Sheryl Paul, author and counselor.

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