You need routine to feel safe, but you also get bored of routine within a week. You crave social connection, but after an hour of it you are completely drained. You want to plan, but the plan keeps changing because your brain keeps changing its mind. If this sounds like you, you might have AuDHD, [...]

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from spending all winter trying to keep up. Not just physical tiredness, though that is real too. It is the mental weight of pushing through when your brain is signalling, clearly and repeatedly, that it needs a break. For many adults with ADHD or AuDHD, that [...]

January has a way of propping people up. There is a collective energy to it, a sense of fresh starts and possibility. Then February arrives, and for many adults with ADHD or AuDHD, that energy quietly disappears. This is not a personal failing. It is a pattern I see every year with clients, and it [...]

Here is something you can do in 30 seconds that might change your relationship with your phone. Switch it to greyscale. That is it. No app to download. No willpower required. Just one setting that strips the colour from your screen and makes your phone significantly less interesting to look at. Why it works Colour [...]

Most morning routine advice assumes you can wake up, follow a list, and sail through the first two hours of your day. If you have ADHD, you know that is not how it works. The alarm goes off. You check your phone. Twenty minutes disappear. You rush through getting ready, forget your keys, and arrive [...]

“Just start.” “Eat the frog.” “Do the hardest thing first.” You have heard it all. And every time someone says it, a small part of you dies inside, because if you could just start, you would have done it hours ago. The problem with most procrastination advice is that it assumes a neurotypical brain. It [...]

You’ve started four projects this month. You’ve finished none of them. This is shiny object syndrome. And if you have ADHD, it is not a character flaw. It is your brain doing exactly what it is wired to do.