Ten Week Integration Reset - Week 7: Developing a Second Choice

Ten Week Integration Reset - Week 7: Developing a Second Choice

When ADHD kicks us into stress mode, our focus narrows and we default to the same habitual response — the go-to move that's comfortable, automatic, and usually about 80% effective. But what happens the other 20% of the time, when that single move isn't serving us? In this episode, Cam explores what it means to develop a "second choice" — not replacing our default response, but building a complementary option alongside it. Using the recurring metaphor of jumping ahead a few comic strip panels and wondering how we got there, he unpacks why it's so hard to trace our own decision-making in the moment, and why outside perspectives (well-meaning as they are) don't always capture what's really happening. Drawing on a story about his son's car-tuning process — sending data back and forth with a specialist to make small, precise adjustments — Cam reframes the work of integration as an iterative practice: noticing one specific habitual response, and asking, simply, "what's another way?" He closes with an invitation to remember there's a more aware, more resourced version of yourself already available to you — and that recognizing you have a choice at all is the first step toward using it.

Ten Week Integration Reset - Week 6: Rerouting to Reykjavik

Some days the flight plan holds. Most days it doesn't. In this episode, Cam explores what happens when life — and ADHD — diverts your best intentions: the reroute to Reykjavik, circling back to Sydney, the holding pattern over Dallas, the plane that never leaves the tarmac. More importantly, he explores what those moments are actually trying to tell you. Drawing on client stories and his own Father's Day "Global Freaker" moment, Cam walks through the practice of looking back without shame — doing a little Columbo-style detective work on your own derailments to spot patterns, reimagine the scenario, and start building a different response for next time. This episode also shares the concept of "two-factor authentication" of stepping into a new identity: how developing a practice has to come before you can trust a new version of yourself — whether that's the guy who can finally sit by a pond, the woman who discovers people see her as a thought leader, or the coach who learns that "listening partner" is a valid option. If your ADHD makes it hard to even see your ADHD, this one's for you. In this episode: * Why the plane metaphor keeps working (and what trans-Atlantic Airbus vs. regional jet actually means for your day) * The "Global Freaker" — and how to get him out of the cockpit * Rocket Man, the pond, and an identity nobody expected * Looking back without replaying: reimagine, then anticipate * Why the ADHD makes it hard to identify the ADHD

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 5: Whispers of a Calling

Week five of the 10-Week Integration Reset asks a different kind of question: beyond managing your ADHD, beyond fending off the saboteur — what's quietly pulling you forward? In this episode, Cam explores the concept of "whispers of a calling" — the subtle signals that serve as deeper wellsprings of motivation and energy. Through client stories, he unpacks how ADHD disrupts our "control surfaces," those micro-adjustments that keep us on course — and how that disruption shows up in unexpected ways, from optimistic over-commitment to jumping straight into solving problems that weren't ours to solve. But the heart of this episode is about tuning in. When the loud noise quiets down, what do you hear? A picture of the future. A person you feel called to connect with. A place that helps you make sense of the world. Cam shares his own examples — a morning ride near UVA, a mentorship vision taking shape, a draw toward the Chesapeake Bay — as an invitation for you to start noticing what's always been whispering to you. If you haven't found your purpose yet, this episode reframes the search: start with moments of meaning, moments of connection. Purpose tends to follow.

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 4: ADHD Reveal Party!

The moment you step into practice — really step in — something shows up right on cue. Not the saboteurs this time. This week it's the ADHD reveal. And yes, it's called a party on purpose. This is not a shame spiral or a performance review. It's a reveal — pulling back the curtain and finally seeing, clearly and specifically, how your ADHD is showing up in the doing. Because it never arrives alone. Forgetfulness, distraction, avoidance, emotional reactivity — they travel together, collecting speed like a dirty snowball. One client, a coach herself, put it perfectly: "it's hard for me to pick apart what's going on." That's exactly what this week is for. Cameron maps the outside — the big signal hijack, the five-more-minutes loop, the avoider-rationalization tag team, the completion cliff — and the inside: the meaning maker, cognitive inflexibility locking into a story, the threshold between intention and action where ADHD does its most effective interference work. But the most important question isn't which of these are yours. It's how you receive that information when you see it. As evidence for the story you've always told? Or as data you can actually work with?

Ten Week Integration Reset — Week 3: Stepping Into Practice

Here's what happens the moment you actually try to do the thing: ADHD shows up at the door. Not the just saboteurs this time — they came last week. This is the threshold moment, that gap between thinking and doing where ADHD does some of its best interference work. ADHD emboldened Saboteurs and we get he avoider rationalizing. The five-more-minutes loop. The conditions-aren't-quite-right perfectionism from Stickler. It's all waiting right there at the inflection point between intention and action. This week Cameron turns the spotlight on that threshold — and asks you to meet your ADHD there with curiosity and compassion, the same way you met your saboteurs last week. But first, a check-in with something worth sitting with: many of us carry a serious empathy imbalance. Plenty of compassion for others, almost none for ourselves. Cameron makes a direct request this week — try to extend to yourself even a fraction of the grace you'd offer anyone else. It matters more than it sounds. He also takes on healthy skepticism: why are we looking at emotions in a coaching model, and is Positive Intelligence just oversimplified neuroscience-lite? He doesn't dodge either question. And he walks through his own four-element example — inner space, outer space, context and lived experience, ADHD — with more honesty than strictly necessary, including a confession about the snack cabinet that may or may not get him Weight Watchers ads on YouTube. HMS Conviction is coming out of dry dock. It's time to step across the line.