Not everyone needs an ADHD coach. Seriously, everybody and their brother is hanging an internet shingle and calling themselves an ADHD coach. I'm happy that ADHD is having it's moment, but saddened by the predatory behavior of my fellow humans. There is no...
I know that's a long title, but women diagnosed with ADHD later in life are weary. Whether you self-diagnosed or jumped through all the hoops of the healthcare system, you are crawling across the finish line after running a marathon you never wanted to run, most...
I've had many requests for another day-in-the-life article, but I decided instead to give you a week of ADHD shenanigans instead. My son was little when I wrote that. These days everyone shares every moment of their ADHD lives on social media. But I feel more...
ADHD and flexible thinking don't always go together. It's a complicated equation. ADHD + negative self-talk + wonky EFs = not-so-flexible thinking. But if you think about it, Flexible thinking isn't easy for anyone. Take for example Kim Kardashian's recent comments...
Everyone talks about lack of focus, but there's little understanding of ADHD hyperfocus. What is hyperfocus? It is exactly what it sounds like. When a person focuses on something so intently that they fail to notice changes in their environment, other people, and...
Every woman I talk to mentions ADHD and exhaustion at some point. For that reason I've suspected for a while that the fuzzy cotton brain feeling many of us describe isn't our imagination or another manifestation of poor executive function. So I was thrilled when this...
ADHD women are invisible in the world. Not because you can't see us, but because you can't SEE us clearly. Many of us live in the margins because we have never found our footing. Watching everyone else seemingly get everything they want and feeling like nobody notices...
Are you low maintenance? I’ve been low maintenance for so long I don’t even know how to be any other way. I used to wonder how I got here, so obnoxiously people-pleasing and pathetic. Recently, I went into Venmo to do my billing and somehow I sent money to a...
Now that my son is older I think about holiday traditions, not gifts. I know you're bored and burned out on Covid and being stuck with your people 24/7. People are buying so much crap in the middle of a pandemic and an economic downturn FedEx can't keep up. Your inbox...
****This is the Twelve Days of ADHD Christmas - COVID edition. Most of us have been cooped up since March of 2020, so we're feeling more anxious and irritable than ever. Despite how it may seem, I really do enjoy the holidays. I enjoy the community giving aspect of...
