One of the analogies i like to give my clients with ADHD, or ADHD symptoms, is that you are a high-performance vehicle stuck in a suburb. Everyone around you is a Toyota Corolla. You can pour sugar into their gas tank and they’ll still run (they’ll just...
I recently completed my Master’s degree after a break of almost 10 years. After sharing my success story, I received several inquiries from other people with ADHD who are currently in university (and their parents), wanting to learn more about what worked for...
ADHD is a child who was never taught how to be in the world. A creative who is too big for this world ADHD is disappointment that it’s not possible to do everything, that our mind is bigger than the universe. ADHD is being misunderstood, it’s wasted...
In business: 20% of my clients give me 80% of my headache. Interestingly enough, these are usually also the ones who paid me the least and gave me the most grief over the cost. So a great way to filter them out is to raise prices! 80% of a great looking website can be...
My biggest fear is other people’s suffering. It was the first day of processing during my Ayahuasca ceremony, realizing that all that pain I was feeling was in response to other people, but not actually other people. This gave me some control back, these were...
A few months ago I first entertained the thought that I had ADHD. I hadn’t considered it earlier because the name is so very misleading. One of the biggest disservices to ADHD is the associations the name gives us – a hyperactive kid who can’t sit...
I have long known that I exist within a contradictory dichotomy: an attraction to both freedom and safety. (I use safety and structure interchangeably here, because to me structure creates a feeling of safety) I think others may relate to this as well, but I’ve always...
I have been practicing caring for my inner child for many months now, focusing on providing it with the basic emotional needs I knew it needed but had never gotten. A sense of being held, of being ok, of feeling contained in compassion, of validation and safety. As I...
I’d like to list the features of an amazingly powerful and easy to use assessment tool that can increase efficiency and work satisfaction. The PDP is 22 page report generated by answering a series of this or that questions that seem completely pointless and unrelated....
They say that 90% of success is showing up. I try to live by that principle. Whether it’s quieting the voice in my head that says “thousands of people have already tried that”, or getting myself to take small, seemingly inconsequential steps towards...