ADHD Real Talk

Dr. Nerissa Bauer of Let's Talk Kids Health and Creator of TEACH ME ADHD is on a mission this month to recruit as many Jr Detectives as possible to help! If you have a child or teen with ADHD, listen to the newest Top Secret Mission and see if your Jr Detective is up for the Challenge. We hope you will help us in this mission--we cannot do it with you. HERO UP stands for Helping Everyone Raise Others Up. This is your TOP SECRET mission starting NOW and runs throughout the month of October. In order to make this work we need each and everyone of you!

We're going to start out by talking about the how's and why's of improving self esteem in your ADHD children.

Dr. Nerissa Bauer is a behavioral pediatrician and entrepreneur in Carmel,  Indiana. She left academia in December 2018 after burnout. She has a part-time behavioral health practice. She created TEACH ME ADHD, an online course for families, is co-host of ADHD Real Talk podcast with Lafaya Mitchell and podcaster of TEACH to Go podcast for her VIP members. She is CEO of Let’s Talk Kids Health, LLC.  She is also a spokesperson for the American  Academy of Pediatrics. She had a late diagnosis of ADHD in her 40s. She believes children should have opportunities to learn how to live with ADHD in a child-friendly way so they have life skills to advocate for themselves and embrace their ADHD superpower. She is on a mission to help kids and parents thrive with ADHD, while rediscovering fun.

Lafaya Mitchell, LMFT @lafaya_way is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who serves kids who are wired differently, their families, and those in the community who have the most access to and interaction with children/teens/adults experiencing social challenges.

She is determined to help families create pathways to peace in their homes through better access to the “Real Truth” in each person’s desire to connect, be heard, and be true to their innate desire to get along with others (especially loved ones).

She created PARENTS EMPOWERING PARENTS (PEP), an online course based on the first 3 books of her parenting book series, “The Lafaya Way” for parents which gives parents immediately tangible ways to: Reduce meltdown behavior, promote a sense of togetherness and team collaboration in the home, and how to teach others what they need to know about their children to encourage improved emotional responses and behaviors.

She loves to play professional-level poker tournaments, create content that helps families and communities heal, and love on her 3 biological kids (ages 17+) and the 3 kiddos she was blessed to be able to foster (all under age 5 yrs). She’s a Sci-Fi and “all things superhero geek” and loves to teach others how to turn perceived challenges into superpowers, the same as she has in her own life!