You expected the diagnosis to feel like an answer. It is more the start of one. Then come the questions nobody prepared you for. If you have recently been diagnosed with ADHD or AuDHD, or you have quietly recognised yourself and stopped waiting for permission, you may have assumed the hard part was getting here. [...]
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Less light, darker mornings and fewer chances to get outside can quietly wear down ADHD and AuDHD brains. Three small anchors to put in place now, plus how to handle the week the clocks go back.
You start a sentence without knowing how it ends. Halfway through, you hear yourself say the thing you actually meant, and it surprises you as much as anyone else in the room. That is verbal processing. Working out what you think by saying it, rather than sorting it silently first and announcing the finished version. [...]
If you have ADHD or AuDHD and you know you need support, the next question arrives quickly. Should this be a coach or a therapist? It is a genuinely good question, and the honest answer is that they do different jobs. Therapy looks backwards at what shaped you. ADHD coaching looks forwards at how to [...]
If you have an ADHD or AuDHD brain, you have probably been told to try harder more times than you can count. Focus more. Forget less. Push through. None of that touches what is really going on, which is that your brain is built differently and has needs of its own. I came back recently [...]
For decades, you have been the one who copes. You hold the project together at work. You hold the household together at home. People rely on you because you deliver. And then, somewhere in your fifties, something gives. The systems that always worked stop working. The energy that always came back is slower to return. [...]
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 [...]
Your mouth says yes before your body has finished checking. Why that happens in ADHD, and what to do about it when you are already running on empty.
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