6 Tips to Navigate ADHD Support Groups

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Attending an ADHD support group can be a wonderful experience.  You meet people who know what it’s like to live with ADHD without you needing to say a word.  You feel understood and more comfortable with the members than even people in your … [Continue reading]

How to Increase your Productivity when you have ADHD

Increase your Productivity When you have ADHD Very often it’s the simplest things that make the biggest different in our lives. The same is true with increasing your productivity when you have ADHD. All you need is an kitchen timer! When you … [Continue reading]

Do you get the Weekend Blahs?

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Weekends can be a challenge when you have ADHD.  That might sound counter intuitive, as you would guess the stressors of a busy week at work would be more tricky than a weekend of leisure.  However, ADHDers can find unstructured time unsettling.  … [Continue reading]

5 Stages of the ADHD Emotional Journey

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Have you heard of the '5 stages of Grief? It’s a model that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified in her book 'On Death and Dying’. Since Elisabeth's ground breaking work her model has been adapted to identify other emotional responses to significant … [Continue reading]

Mindful Meditation

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Ever since I became an ADHD coach, I have been on a constant quest to find ways to make meditation easier for adults with ADHD. Why? Because  although meditation for adults with ADHD sounds like a contradition in terms, it can be highly … [Continue reading]

Do Adults with ADHD experience stress more than non ADHD adults?

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A few weeks ago  I wrote an article about how, when you are experiencing stress in your life, your ‘normal functioning' is reduced. The most dramatic personal experience I had of this was when  I got divorced and my short term memory disappeared. … [Continue reading]