Dealing With SADness

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...

You Don’t Need ADHD To Find Yourself Endlessly Scrolling

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’,...
Happy Holidays! Watch out for TMI!

Happy Holidays! Watch out for TMI!

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’...
Talking to Kids with ADHD…I’ll tell you what I know.

Talking to Kids with ADHD…I’ll tell you what I know.

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),...