How ADHD or AuDHD affects driving, learning to drive, fines and the DVLA rules in plain English. A warm, practical UK guide for adults.
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Most ADHD conversations focus on what is hard. That is half the picture. A strengths-based look at executive function tells a more useful story.
You used to cope. You held it all together. The career, the family, the house, the social life, the mental load. It was hard, but you managed. Then somewhere in your late thirties or early forties, it all started to unravel. You cannot focus. You cannot remember things. You are exhausted all the time. You [...]
Someone makes an offhand comment. It was nothing. They have already forgotten they said it. But you have not. It is replaying in your head on a loop. Your chest tightens. Your face burns. You feel like you have been punched. Welcome to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. When you understand what is happening, the spiral gets [...]
If you have ADHD or AuDHD and you are in your late thirties, forties, or fifties, you may have noticed that your brain is not working the way it used to. Your medication feels less effective. Your focus is worse. Your emotions are harder to regulate. Things that used to be manageable now feel impossible. [...]
Some adults take the formal route to ADHD diagnosis. Some do not. There are very good reasons for both. This piece is for the second group. You may have recognised yourself in everything you have read about Adult ADHD. You may have done the research, taken the self-tests, talked to others who got their diagnosis [...]
Most people who ask “should I get an ADHD coach” are not really asking that question. They are asking something underneath it. Will this be another thing I start and don’t finish? Will the coach get me? Is the money worth it? Am I making too much of this? Coaching adults with ADHD and AuDHD [...]
The four learning styles, why they matter more for ADHD or AuDHD, and a practical strategy list for each. From a UK ADHD coach with 26+ years.
Yes. All the things we work on in coaching help, whether or not you’re diagnosed, and whether or not you’re on medication. That isn’t a soft answer to make you feel welcome. It’s a practical one. Coaching since 2000 adults with ADHD or AuDHD, I’ve watched the same pattern hundreds of times. The work we [...]
Brain fog, mood shifts, sleep disruption: ADHD and perimenopause share a lot of symptom territory. Here is how to start telling them apart, and what to do when it is both.
