About: Debra Burdick
Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as ‘The Brain Lady’, is an international expert on ADHD and Mindfulness. She is an award-winning, #1 best-selling author of: Mindfulness Skills Workbook, Mindfulness Skills for Kids and Teens, ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens, Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD, Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD, Mindfulness Skills for Kids Card Deck, and Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill Card Deck. She is an international speaker and retired psychotherapist and neurotherapist, who has been helping all ages thrive for over 30 years.
Recent Posts by Debra Burdick
Intuition 101
Have you ever had a ‘gut’ feel about something and found out later it was completely accurate? I have become fascinated by our ability to ‘know’ things without any real knowledge about them. Does this ability come from our brain or some way of ‘knowing’ that we don’t yet fully understand? Researchers are working to(read more)
Secrets to a Stress Free Life
Life is full of stressors. I once heard Norman Vincent Peale say that the only people without problems and stress were ‘all those people buried over there in that cemetery’. He was right. If we are alive, we have plenty of triggers for stress. But it’s how we choose to respond to something that determines how(read more)
A Holistic Approach to ADHD
Why is it important to use a holistic approach to help a child with ADHD succeed? The first thing many parents of children with ADHD are told is that their child should take stimulant medications. For some children medication works very well and for others it does not. But even if medication works for a child,(read more)
Are You Sleeping? Is it ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, or a Sleep Disorder?
Do you or your child toss and turn at night and experience daytime sleepiness? Have you or your child been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, or anxiety. Fifty percent of children in a recent study that had been diagnosed with ADHD had difficulty sleeping. They felt tired on awakening, had nightmares, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome,(read more)
5 Steps to Your Best Year Yet
It is always exciting to see how current brain research and brain imaging techniques prove why psychological and spiritual techniques work in our lives. This is an extremely powerful finding that when used positively can help us create what we want in our lives. When used the way most of us do, unconsciously, we don’t(read more)