Thrive With ADD

Mini-Training Video #2:  “What Triggers You?”

Many people with ADD / ADHD become overwhelmed when having to deal with information in a modality that is awkward for them.  It’s hard to focus on a lecture if you’re a “visual” person, or to learn from reading a dense manual if you require hands-on practice….

Mini-training video #1:  How to Stop ADHD Overwhelm

There’s no one-size-fits-all techniques for breaking through overwhelm.   The solutions that will work for you must be based on the cause of your overwhelmed feeling, in that moment.  And it may have resulted from a different kind of difficulty that came first.  Is your overwhelm the chicken… or the egg?….

Overwhelm keeps 88% of ADD / ADHD adults from getting started, according to The Procrastination Survey.

Surprisingly, unmotivated procrastination is much less of a problem than distraction and inability to plan…

We can be world-class procrastinators when we’re unmotivated.  But more often, ADD/ADHD adults have trouble getting started for many reasons that have nothing to do with attitude or motivation!  This mental paralysis is different for every individual.  Discover what’s really holding you back with The Procrastination Survey …

Do you have plans for a project this summer?  You may THINK you’ll finally turn your attention to that project you’ve been putting off.  But it doesn’t usually work out that way.  In fact, just the opposite…

A significant number of patients diagnosed with depression may in fact have undiagnosed ADHD.  Even doctors confuse them.

Do you sometimes despair that your ADD traits make you a poor role model for your kids?

What if all this forgetfulness, the misplacing of things and your otherwise scatterbrained missteps turned out to not be such a bad thing after all?

Dealing with “Brat Brain”

It feels like you have a two-year-old inside your head, ready to throw a tantrum at a moment’s notice.

If you drop your clothes in a pile when you undress, instead of putting them away, you are adding extra time to your morning.  Hanging them up would take less than a minute, yet you resist…