by Rahti | Feb 3, 2023 | blog
There’s a new acronym afoot in the ADHD lexicon: ICNU It stands for Interest, Challenge, Novelty, Urgency, and it pretty neatly describes the operating system of the ADHD brain. Neurotypcal brains operate via ISIR: Importance, Secondary importance (what someone else...
by Rahti | Jan 19, 2023 | blog
The best resolution, whether it’s a New Year’s Resolution or otherwise, is to keep resolving. A resolution is a firm determination to do or not do something. And the reason I think we should keep resolving is because consistency is not about staying on track,...
by Rahti | Jan 11, 2023 | blog
What do you want by the end of 2023? There are people who refuse to answer that question, because they’ve come up empty at the end of so many years past. For these folks, setting goals for the new year feels like a recipe for not accomplishing them. If you...
by Rahti | Dec 23, 2022 | blog
As an ADHD coach, I hear about seasonal depression a lot, also known as SAD: Seasonal Affective Disorder. Neurodivergent people, having been aware of our ‘otherness’ in terms of the way we think, are acutely sensitized to the things that impact our psyches, such as...
by Rahti | Dec 15, 2022 | blog
Doom scroll much? Welcome to the club. I don’t care who you are, if you have a mobile phone, ADHD or no ADHD, chances are you fall along a universal spectrum of social media addiction. Heck, we all know now that these ‘devises of mass distraction’,...
by Rahti | Nov 29, 2022 | blog
Holidays with friends and family… Ah the idyllic images that come to mind…and if you’re lucky, the memories… For those of us with neurodivergent challenges however, holiday gatherings present a gauntlet of impulse control related land mines. One is ‘oversharing’...
by Rahti | Nov 17, 2022 | blog
I think ‘quiet quitting’ is a misnomer. Its been anecdotally defined to me as follows: “Quiet Quitting is where you don’t actually quit your job but instead do exactly what your job entails and nothing extra past your work hours. So no voluntary OT.” Well, to my...
by Rahti | Nov 8, 2022 | blog
So hey, I’m a coach for adults with ADHD, not kids. I often get asked whether I have ADHD myself. I was never formally diagnosed, but I experience plenty of the traits: hyper-focus related time blindness, struggling with RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria),...
by Rahti | Oct 27, 2022 | blog
Meditation is taking a break from the relentless stream of bullshit-thoughts that constantly populate our mind and influence our feelings, usually to our detriment. Sounds like a relief, right? So how do you meditate? Pick a focus point. It can be...
by Rahti | Oct 20, 2022 | blog
Entitlement is an unconscious attitude that sets people up for unhappiness. That is because once something goes “wrong” it causes us to feel victimized rather than simply curious. What would happen if the next time someone cut in front of you in line you got curious...
