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#219 Preheat the Project Oven
With ADHD, projects can be overwhelming… take for example: making dinner. There are soooo many steps that you need to take – choosing a recipe, chopping vegetables, getting out the ingredients, etc. We can get bogged down with all the steps, end up with lots of...
#218 Menopause and ADHD
If you're a woman over 40, you might be wondering why your ADHD symptoms are going haywire. Or you might be looking up the diagnosis wondering if you have ADHD when it had never occurred to you before. Welcome to menopause (and the precursor stage before it called...
#217 Practice the Pause
Learning when and how to take a break is a really important skill for managing ADHD. We need to be mindful of ourselves, but just being aware isn’t enough. To really manage ADHD effectively, we need to pay attention to our thoughts and actions AND make changes when...
#216 Stop Empty Commitments
Your friend asks if you want to do something and you say, "YES!" And you truly mean that YES with the best of intentions. You want to do it. But for a whole list of possible reasons, you don't follow through. This is an example of making an empty commitment. Saying...
#215 Be Vulnerable
Let's take a bit of a break right now and check in...how are you doing? Really. Because I've noticed that many people are having a rough time right now which is impacting their mental, emotional and physical health. You don't have to be strong alone and pretend that...
#214 All or Nothing Thinking
Earlier this week, one of my private coaching clients said: "When you have ADHD, you live in the gray, but think in the black and white." What this means is that we view things in extremes, there's no middle ground. It's all or nothing. And this cognitive distortion...
#213 Building ADHD Habits: Where to Start? (Replay Ep 197)
The fall season has officially started which means that you've probably shifted into a different daily / weekly schedule than you had over the summer. And if you have ADHD, at this point, you may be a bit overwhelmed. Because when we transition into a new chapter, we...
#212 Can You Reinvent ADHD? (Replay Ep 195)
If you tuned into Episode 210 - Dealing with Difficult Times, then you know I've been dealing with some family challenges that resulted in a topsy turvy summer. So I'm doubling down on who I want to be. And that is someone who cares, delivers and shows up...and I'm...
#211 Tie Up the Loose Ends First
One of the hallmarks of ADHD is leaving things unfinished. We struggle to take things to the end step. Small tasks, big projects. We also struggle to get things started and find ourselves easily distracted by other shiny things. The result? We’ve got lots of half...
#210 Dealing with Difficult Times
Life is tough. There's no way around it. We have to deal with so much in our external world that we can't control. So much stress and overwhelm. And this summer for me was definitely rough. So I have been thinking about dealing with difficult times. And what I do....
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