Time for TRACTION! Seattle Groups for ADHD Adults – 2019
Your brain is unique. When you gain an understanding of how you’re wired, you can get more of what you want out of life. It starts with awareness, becomes active, and builds momentum toward a life of your choosing. That’s TRACTION. My insurance-eligible...
Green Time: Exposure to Nature Positively Impacts ADHD!
Looking to add a new tool to your ever expanding ADHD toolbox? Give “green time” a try. Green time is simply time spent in a “green” area: a city park, a remote rural setting, or totally off the grid in a wilderness area. It’s important to remember...
Are you impulsive?
How often do you act on impulse? Say something without thinking? Take a risk? Jump in without a plan? Impulsivity is common for those of us wired with ADHD traits. Our biology makes it hard for us not to act impulsively. The executive skill called response...
What does “unpacking” ADHD mean to you?
What does UnpackingADHD mean? If you live with ADHD traits, developing an awareness and understanding of your unique brain wiring is incredibly valuable. “Unpacking” ADHD is a personal process of learning about ADHD, sorting myths from realities, and...
Adult ADHD Medication: Is it Right for You?
Whether or not to try adult ADHD medication is a big question for many of my clients. It’s a very personal choice, but it’s also a choice that’s loaded. Most adults come to the question of ADHD medication with strong leanings in one direction or the other....
Why does ADHD Awareness Month Matter?
Why does ADHD Awareness Month matter? Why do we need to raise awareness? And what does this month mean for those of us who already know we live with ADHD traits? I believe it’s about breaking down shame and ignorance. There are so many myths about ADHD,...
ADHD and Anxiety: How They’re Related and What To Do About It
In my 18 years as an Adult ADHD specialist, most of my clients have also struggled with anxiety. ADHD and anxiety are considered separate diagnoses, but let’s step back for a minute and acknowledge how intricately connected they are. It makes perfect sense that...
ADHD Sleep: 7 Strategies That Work
Most of my clients report some form of sleep issue and some are challenged in epic ways. Bill Dodson, MD has written a lot of great stuff about sleep disturbances related to ADHD. He really gets into the way that sleep issues are a result of the unique traits of ADHD....
ADHD Success Skills Inspired by Michael Phelps
What We Can Learn from “Phelps Face” The image above of Michael Phelps at the recent Olympics in Rio stuck with me. That’s him on the left (photo from USA Today). I wondered what he was listening to and why the frown? Were his headphones a strategy...
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