Parenting in a neurodivergent family can feel intense, especially when ADHD and big emotions collide. In this LiveTalk, Lucie sits down with family therapist Michelle — founder of Compassionate Heart, Mindful Life and a mother of three — to explore what’s happening beneath the surface during those reactive moments between parent and child.
Michelle shares practical insights into ADHD, executive functioning, and emotional regulation, including Daniel Siegel’s “hand model of the brain” and why a parent’s calm nervous system helps children return to regulation.
Through reflection and simple exercises, parents are invited to better understand their own reactions and the deeper needs, fears, and hopes that shape family interactions. This conversation offers compassionate guidance and practical tools to help families move from reactivity toward greater calm, connection, and understanding.
2pm ET / 8pm CET
Michelle Puster, M.Ed., LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Emotionally Focused Family Therapist Supervisor, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional based in Katy, Texas. With over a decade of experience, she helps individuals and families break unhelpful patterns and build stronger, more connected relationships using approaches grounded in attachment, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
As a mom of three, including a neurodivergent child, Michelle brings both professional and lived experience to her work. As founder of Compassionate Heart Mindful Life, she supports parents in understanding stress and behavior, navigating big emotions, and building calmer, more compassionate family connections.
Lucie Brixi Tamášová is first and foremost a mother of three children (and two wonderful bonus children). For more than 17 years, she has been searching for kind, practical, and research-based answers to the everyday challenges of parenting and helping make them accessible to families around the world.
She is the founder of international projects including Childhood Potential Club, Montessori Parenting, and the Childhood Potential Conference, through which she connects parents, educators, and leading child development experts from across the globe. Through her work, she promotes a respectful and conscious approach to children while helping parents navigate everyday life with greater calm, understanding, and confidence.
Alongside her international work, Lucie also leads educational projects in Kenya and Guinea through the NGO Centrum Dialog, helping provide access to quality education for children with limited opportunities. She deeply believes that conscious support of children has the power to positively shape the future of society as a whole.