Adult ADHD

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Confused Whether You Need Therapy or ADHD Coaching?
ByMarla Cummins October 8, 2019January 5, 2026 ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

Trying to decide whether you need therapy or ADHD Coaching? Maybe your ADHD diagnosis is recent, and you’re curious about what support is available. Alternatively, maybe you’ve known about your ADHD for quite a while and have just reached your tipping point. That is, you’ve gotten by using whatever compensating strategies you have in your toolbox. Until now. In either case, whether a new or old diagnosis, you’re tired of working so hard, right? And you can’t figure out how to make the changes you want on your own. If you’re taking medication, maybe you’re still not seeing the changes you want. You’ve also skimmed a few books and/or websites. The ideas sound great. You’ve tried a few. They just don’t stick. So now you’ve…

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ADHD Tools & Strategies | Blog

ADHD Adults Who Want to Be Productive and Not Stressed Use These Calendar Tips
ByMarla Cummins June 22, 2018April 10, 2026 ADHD Tools & Strategies, Blog

Transcript (00:01): Are you spending your time in ways that allow you to do what is important to you? When you use a calendar effectively, it can help you remember to follow through on your time and date sensitive commitments, do what is important to you, as well as provide a record of how you are using your time, so then you can have a better sense of whether you are using it in alignment with your values and goals. However, right now, you may not be using your calendar as effectively as you could to help you do this. Rather, it might look like this. That is you put task on there like calling, emailing people or maybe things you need to do after…

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ADHD Symptoms & Diagnosis | Blog

Here Are the 4 Steps ADHD Adults Use to Deal with Boredom
ByMarla Cummins May 25, 2018June 18, 2025 ADHD Symptoms & Diagnosis, Blog

I’m sure as an adult with ADHD you’re all too familiar with the feeling of boredom. That restless feeling, sometimes intense, when you’re just not really engaged in something interesting. And, sure, everyone experiences boredom at times. But, as an adult with ADHD, your boredom can feel incredibly excruciating, maybe even intolerable. Of course, sometimes you feel bored because the activity is, well, boring. Make sense. But the feeling of boredom for adults with ADHD can be magnified. One of the reasons is the understimulation in the prefrontal cortex of your brain because of lack of sufficient neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine. It is common to think of lack of follow-through as a consequence of boredom. And, no doubt, the fallout from not closing the loop…

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The 6 Steps ADHD Adults Use to Solve Just About Any Problem
ByMarla Cummins December 21, 2017June 18, 2025 Blog

Problem-solving is hard for ADHD adults. Not exactly rainbows and unicorns. I know. And you may be tempted to stop reading this article right now. But, if you want to become better at handling adversity, I hope you’ll hang in there with me a bit longer. I thought of writing this article while reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson. Ordinarily, I would bypass a book with this title. Because, well, it’s probably not serious enough and worthy of my time. But, as is often true when I judge a book by its cover and jump to conclusions, I was wrong. And, as I was reading Manson’s book, I thought of the myriad of ways problem-solving is hard for…

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ADHD Emotional Regulation | Blog

Are You Ready to Change How You Think About Your ADHD?
ByMarla Cummins November 22, 2017June 18, 2025 ADHD Emotional Regulation, Blog

What might be holding you back from achieving what you want right now is your frustration about your ADHD challenges. If it is, your thinking might be something along the lines of, “This isn’t fair! I shouldn’t have to deal with this!” So, maybe you neither accept what is or effectively work toward making a change. Rather, you stay stuck in this mindset, wanting things to be different than they are, but unable to move forward. The antidote to this predicament is accepting the mindset of Dr. Edward Hallowell’s adaptation of the Serenity Prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The insight to prioritize wisely what I want to change; The patience to resist trying to control everything I…

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ADHD Tools & Strategies | Blog

How ADHD Adults Fix Their Love-Hate Relationship with Routines
ByMarla Cummins July 10, 2017June 18, 2025 ADHD Tools & Strategies, Blog

You’ve probably heard time and time again that adding structure to your life can help you manage your ADHD and keep you from floundering — doing whatever catches your attention in the moment. It’s true. Yet, if you are like many adults with ADHD, when you think of adding structure to your life you probably think, “I definitely need to do that! And I’ve tried… It just always seems to fall part.” So, you resist doing so because, well, it is just too hard and never seems to work. And you continue to waver between wanting structure and resisting it. Makes sense. Read on below to learn more about structure and how you can successfully add just enough to help you work with your…

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How to Prioritize When You Feel You Have To Do Everything Now!
ByMarla Cummins April 7, 2017June 15, 2025 Blog

One of the challenges for Adults with ADHD is deciding what to do at any given moment. And, if this is one of your challenges, you may make these decisions based on what feels important. But, when everything feels important right now, it can feel impossible to decide. Of course, while you want to pay attention to your instinct, as it may point you in the right direction, relying just on your feelings to drive your decisions in the moment is risky business for Adults with ADHD. To make it easier to make decisions in the moment: decide what is essential to you — your priorities — in advance. decide in advance what activities / tasks will help you succeed in doing what is important…

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Not Sure What Kind of Help You Need to Manage Your ADHD?
ByMarla Cummins October 30, 2016June 15, 2025 ADHD Tools & Strategies, Blog

When you have ADHD and deciding what to change is a challenge, you might get stuck in analysis paralysis. You know you need to make some sort of change to make things better, but you just don’t know where to start. Everything seems hard. And you want it all to be better. Now! But, since you can’t do it all now, you may give up. Because you think it is impossible to decide what to do. But you’re here, reading this. So, even if you’ve given up in the past, you really want to figure this out. Below is one way to zero in on where you want to start making changes. Because, even though it would be nice to make everything better now, you…

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ADHD Emotional Regulation | Blog

How to Deal With Setbacks When Trying To Work With Your ADHD
ByMarla Cummins August 17, 2016June 15, 2025 ADHD Emotional Regulation, Blog

Wonder how ADHD adults deal with failure? One mistake we often make when we are learning new skills, adopting new strategies or changing our habits is we think there is a destination. That is, we think we will get to a place and be done, home free, fixed… But the truth is we never get “there.” Rather, we have to work on maintaining the progress. On some level I know you get this… But, like me, I bet you forget, especially when you hit the occasional speed bump along the way. So, when you are working hard at creating the change you want, and you have some sort of setback, you may be tempted to give up. In the moment, you think, “Whatever! I tried,…

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How To Become Shame Resilient When You Have ADHD
ByMarla Cummins June 13, 2016June 26, 2025 ADHD Emotional Regulation, Blog

When helping my clients figure out how to work with their ADHD and create a life that works for them the topic of shame inevitably arises at some point. In fact, shame is common for ADHD adults. I can’t think of another emotion that is as ubiquitous as shame. And, while everybody feels shame, many ADHD adults don’t acknowledge or address it. And, if this is true for you, it is unfortunate. Because it may be holding you back from reaching your goals. While, try as you might, you can’t prevent it from arising on occasion. However, you can become more shame resilient. Ready to learn how to manage it and minimize its negative impact? The Difference Between Shame and Guilt First, it is important…

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