Strategies to help ADHD adults manage emotional intensity, reactivity, and overwhelm — with compassion and skill.
Here is a conundrum. We know that getting started or initiating tasks, even those that hold some interest, is a challenge for many adults with ADHD. So, what do you do when you have a task to do and you are “just not feeling it”? When the task holds no interest for you in the…
(originally published July 31, 2009, updated April 15, 2021) Rumination. Racing thoughts. Stuck thinking. Worrying. Perseverating. These are just some of the names adults with ADHD use when referring to their inability to move on from thoughts that are causing them a great deal of distress and not serving them in any productive way. ADHD…
Some rights reserved by lhuiz The fire drills… You know. Those are the times when something because so urgent that your focus is entirely on that task, possibly to the exclusion of other more important items in your life. Your brain get hijacked and you get on the truck, put on the siren and careen…
Yes, our brains can hold information. If you can give me time, I can rattle off dates in US History to impress you at a party. This is not very helpful, though, if I forget milk for breakfast, and we want to eat cereal in the morning. It is not very helpful, if I…
Holding Judgment Whenever I go to a movie I have to remind myself to suspend my disbelief. When I catch myself thinking something like, “that would never happen,” I stop. And remind myself that, if I could let go, and immerse myself in the moment, something may resonates with me. If I allow this to…
I am a worrier – my ability to focus my attention on the worry de jour is really quite exceptional. While people who know me well, already know this, others are often surprised to learn this. As you know, having difficulty being able to focus when and where you want is one of the hallmark…
Today is Martin Luther King Day. It is a day when we not only remember the legacy of MLK, but it is also a day when we remember that there is still work to do to make this a truly just world. Tomorrow Barak Obama will be inanugrated as the first African American president. Yes,…
While dealing with the challenges of ADHD you are likely to experience many different emotions and feelings. Yet, I often hear from clients some variation of the following when they are talking about their feelings. “But this is coaching, so I probably shouldn’t go into this too much.” Somewhere along the way many of us…
We have all failed at some point in our lives. For Adults with ADHD, failure may be all too familiar. Especially if your ADHD was undiagnosed or misdiagnosed until adulthood. If this is the case for you, you may fear failure to the point that it is holding you back from setting or reaching your…