ADHD Gathering

ADHD Gathering is hosted by Ying Deng, award-winning ADHD coach, certified meditation teacher, and featured expert in SELF Magazine. Your ADHD brain is not a problem to fix; it’s an ecosystem to understand. What began as a spotlight on BIPOC voices in the ADHD community has grown into a broader exploration of the art of navigating life as a neurodivergent person, through mindfulness, radical acceptance, and a deeper understanding of yourself and the systems you live within, while still highlighting diverse narratives. Tune in if you’re a late-diagnosed ADHD adult ready to stop forcing and start living in a way that actually flows with your brain.

ADHD Gathering is a education podcast hosted by Ying Deng, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ying Deng hosts ADHD Gathering, a education show with 19 episodes published.

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  ADHD Gathering

  Ep14: Choosing to Love in Uncertain Times: Mindfulness, Nature Wisdom, and Friendship with Oneself with Lisa Pedscalny

  Sep 14, 202640 min

  Host Ying Deng interviews mindfulness teacher and nature-based practitioner Lisa Pedscalny about how to face “this moment” by discerning media intake and intentionally resting attention on both human systems in transition and the sustaining wisdom of the natural world. Lisa, a highly sensitive and neurodivergent naturalist on Vancouver Island, shares how spring rhythms (recorded back in February), interdependence, and cycles like compost mirror human renewal and inform sustainable engagement. She outlines non-negotiable “pillar practices” (nature time, contemplative practice, connection/community, and nourishment through food, rest, and movement) plus Maitri—unconditional friendliness toward oneself—framed as asking, “What does it mean to be the friend I most need in this moment?” They discuss love as a responsive practice, value-driven service through sanghas and Tara Brach’s Choosing to Love, sources of hope in peaceful actions and nature’s resilience, and close with a guided “coming to our senses” embodiment practice. Listen now on  Apple Podcast  and  Spotify 00:00 Welcome to ADHD Gathering 00:18 Meet Lisa Pedscalny 01:57 Navigating This Moment 06:53 Sensitivity and Self Care 08:39 Pillar Practices Toolkit 11:44 Maitri Self Friendship 16:08 Tending the Soil Metaphor 18:06 What’s Mine to Do 21:48 Love as a Verb 24:31 Begin Again Practice 27:19 Resistance and Hope Stories 31:49 Embodiment: Coming to Senses 39:26 Closing Thanks and Farewell Find more podcast episodes. Find this episode’s transcript here . Resources: Booking  a free coaching discovery call with Ying, an award winning ADHD coach & meditation teacher featured on Self Magazine Download  a free ADHD emotional regulation menu Guest’s Bio: Lisa Pedscalny is a mindfulness teacher rooted in nearly twenty years of Vipassana practice and a lifelong relationship with the natural world. Her teaching grows from that lived connection, blending deep contemplative practice with close attention to the more-than-human world. A graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, Lisa facilitates trauma-informed retreats, courses, and sangha gatherings through Forest Floor Mindfulness and serves on the teaching team for Tara Brach’s yearlong program, Choosing to Love. Her work integrates mindfulness, embodiment, and ecological connection as pathways of healing, belonging, and sustainable engagement with the wider web of life. As a nature photographer specializing in fungi, Lisa brings the same attentive presence to the forest floor, inviting others into the simple, joyful practice of looking closely and discovering that mindfulness often arises naturally when we slow down and meet the living world with curiosity. She lives and practices on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, where time outdoors continues to shape and inform both her life and her teaching. Find Lisa on: Her website https://www.forestfloormindfulness.com/ (Lisa has a new bi-weekly practice group starting September 2026!) YouTube Instagram Facebook SoundCloud

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  Ep 13: Hip-Hop as Mindfulness, Radical Self-Compassion, and Meeting This Moment with Art with Born I / Ofosu Jones-Quartey

  Jun 24, 202636 min

  On this episode, the host, Ying Deng, interviews Born I / Ofosu Jones-Quartey, a meditation teacher, hip hop artist, and author whose work blends music, mindfulness, and radical self-compassion, including his album Komorebi and book Lyrical Dharma. Discussing how he’s meeting the current moment, Ofosu describes shifting emotions—sadness, rage, hope—and frames them within a Buddhist view of relative and absolute reality and the “great freedom” of experience, which helps him avoid despair and return to equanimity. He explains self-compassion as cultivating a “wise friend inside,” which was slowly developed while dealing with OCD and depression, with the help of therapy & medication, and overcoming cultural stigma. For engaged practice, he focuses on making contemplative art and encouraging self-love, and he highlights hope in authentic self-expression, allyship, and intergenerational community. He shares upcoming Hip Hop Sound Bath tour dates and the inaugural Neurospicy Retreat with Jeff Warren, and closes with a brief self-compassion meditation practice. Listen now on  Apple Podcast  and  Spotify Timestamp: 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 03:21 Great Freedom Explained 06:47 Self Compassion Practices 11:29 Building the Inner Friend 12:12 OCD and Healing Tools 19:11 Engaged Practice Through Art & Community 24:19 Hope in Community 29:01 Upcoming Tour and Neurospicy Retreat 31:36 Guided Self Compassion Practice 35:19 Gratitude and Closing Find more podcast episodes. Find this episode’s transcript here. Resources: Booking  a free coaching discovery call with Ying, an award winning ADHD coach & meditation teacher featured on Self Magazine Download  a free ADHD emotional regulation menu Guest’s Bio: Born I / Ofosu Jones-Quartey is a meditation teacher, hip hop artist and author whose work sits at the intersection of music, mindfulness, and radical self-compassion. As a teacher was more than two decades of practice. He blends mindfulness with contemporary creative expression to make inner healing accessible to all. His latest projects include the contemplative hiphop album, Komorebi, and the book Lyrical Dharma, Hip-Hop as Mindfulness. Across retreats, performances, and community gatherings, Born I supports people in remembering their inherent worth and living with presence and courage. Find Ofosu on Instagram @bornimusic Check out the Neurospicy retreat happening in July 2026, led by Ofosu and Jeff Warren Check out Ofosu’s book, album, and upcoming tours here .

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  Ep12: Facing This Moment with Ecopsychology: Community, Bird Divination, and Sustaining Change with Ash Lounsbury

  Jun 16, 202631 min

  Host Ying Deng launches a mini-series on “how do we face this moment?” and interviews Ash Lounsbury, an ecopsychologist and enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation with ecotherapy training, meditation experience, and research on bird divination. Ash describes holding spring’s renewal alongside political and climate “polycrises,” reflects on privilege, neurodivergence, and “autistic joy,” and explains ecopsychology as the study of human relationships with nature (humans are nature). They discuss sustaining practices like sangha/community, small nature-connection rituals (sunrise, birdsong), and Ash’s bird divination workshops as meaning-making. Ash shares examples of collective action and resistance in Asheville (protests for protecting the urban forest, opposition to data centers & surveillance cameras, mutual aid) and leads a “sphere of influence” practice at the end centered on the inquiry: “How can I sustain my wave of change?” Listen now on  Apple Podcast  and  Spotify 00:00 Welcome 00:38 Meet Ash Lounsbury 05:32 What Is Ecopsychology 06:57 Nature as Daily Practice 08:20 Sustaining Practices and Community 10:28 Bird Divination Explained 14:10 Service and Collective Action 18:30 Hope and Resistance Stories 21:31 Sphere of Influence Practice 28:57 Final Quote and Where to Find Ash Find more podcast episodes. Find this episode’s transcript here . Resources: Download  a free ADHD emotional regulation menu Booking  a free coaching discovery call with Ying, an award winning ADHD coach & meditation teacher featured on Self Magazine Guest’s Bio: Ash Lounsbury is an ecopsychologist and enrolled citizen of the Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nation. Ash holds a non-clinical Master’s in Ecopsychology from Naropa University and Level 1 and 2 certificates in ecotherapy from the Earthbody Institute. Her graduate research culminated in a dissertation on the intersection of ancient bird divination and contemporary ecotherapeutic modalities. Ash sometimes writes about myth, ecohealing, queerness, and birds. With over a decade of meditation experience, she’s had the honor to support Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s virtual meditation community members. In 2025, she co-founded Earthwild Ecology Club where she co-facilitates virtual ecopsychological workshops. Wake! Ecohealing  https://wakeecohealing.com/ Earthwild Ecology Club https://www.earthwildec.org/ IG:  @wake.ecohealing

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  Ep 11: ADHD as an Ecosystem

  Mar 23, 202622 minS0

  <p >Ever feel like ADHD advice is just an endless list of productivity hacks that never quite address why everything still feels hard? That’s because most frameworks focus narrowly on attention and task completion—missing the full picture of what it’s actually like to live in an ADHD brain.</p> <p >In this episode, award-winning ADHD coach and meditation teacher Ying proposes a different lens: ADHD as an ecosystem. Drawing from her environmental science background and coaching hundreds of ADHD adults, she maps five interconnected dimensions—cognition, emotion, somatics, narrative, and execution—all embedded within larger systems of relationsh...

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  Ep 10: Type B Ambitious – Understanding Your Intensity Needs with ADHD

  Jan 13, 202622 minS0

  <p >Ever feel like mainstream success advice – wake up at 4am, run marathons, host constantly – sounds exhausting? That’s because it’s most likely provided by people with endless physical energy. In this episode, award-winning ADHD coach and meditation teacher, Ying shares the concept of overexcitability from Polish psychologist Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration, exploring five categories of overexcitability/intensity needs: psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional. </p> <p>For many late-diagnosed ADHD adults, especially those who experience the world with vivid depth, understanding which needs actually sustain you (versus which ones hit diminishing returns) changes everything.</p> <p>Ying share...

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