I’m not a huge fan of New Year’s resolutions, particularly for people with ADHD. What’s important in goal-setting or intention-setting or whatever-language-you-use-to-make-change-in-your-life, is that it works for how you work. Here’s what works about New Year’s resolutions: the new year gives you a sense of permission to start with a clean slate, rather than dwell […]
I've been sick. I'll tell you more later about that. But for now, it means a lot of things have not been happening, because other more urgent and medically important things have happened. There are papers piled in odd places while I was taking care of my body. There are emails I didn't answer because […]
This morning in a parents' discussion email group, a mom asked if it is useful to be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. I thought my answer might be useful to others so I've excerpted it for you here: Diagnosis as an adult gives you a lot of information that can be useful, including both […]
Ok, this is true for some of my ADHD coaching clients. You tell me that whoa! once you get started, everything is a-ok, or even hyperfocus great. But getting started is tough. Today's getting started for me is full-on anxiety-provoking. I haven't had all that much time for the work I've wanted to do […]
I've been giving a blog post to clients to read. It's a blog post by Kyra Anderson about parenting, a child with Asperger. After I read it, I kept thinking about it while talking to clients, because the things the author is figuring out about dealing with her kid are so similar to the things […]
Recently an ADHD coaching client told me that she couldn't read some notes I had emailed her because the visual of the unstructured text was overwhelming. The next day someone emailed me a link to a nifty online to do list tool called Workflowy. It looks like a great match for that client- because it […]