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Thinking Out Loud: Verbal Processing with ADHD & AuDHD

Categories: AuDHD, Executive Functioning, Tools & Strategies

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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. [...]

ADHD Coach or Therapist: Which Do You Need?

Categories: AuDHD, Coaching

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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. Plenty of people I speak to want a bit of both: coaching to understand [...]

Seven Ways to Look After Your ADHD Brain

Categories: AuDHD, Healthy Habits, Rejection Sensitivity, Tools & Strategies

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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 [...]

Why Successful Women Hit a Wall in Their 50s: The Cost of Decades of Masking

Categories: AuDHD, Burnout, Midlife & Menopause

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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. [...]

ADHD Coaching: When It Helps, When It Doesn’t, How to Decide

Categories: AuDHD, Coaching, Daily Life, Tools & Strategies, Work

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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 [...]

How do you actually learn best?

Categories: AuDHD, Daily Life, Executive Functioning, Tools & Strategies, Work

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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.

Will ADHD Coaching Help Before I’m Diagnosed?

Categories: AuDHD, Coaching, Daily Life, Tools & Strategies

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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 [...]

Saying no when your nervous system has already said yes: boundaries in ADHD burnout recovery

Categories: AuDHD, Burnout, Healthy Habits, Midlife & Menopause, Tools & Strategies

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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.

Sunday night dread: an early warning sign of ADHD burnout

Categories: AuDHD, Burnout, Healthy Habits, Tools & Strategies, Work

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Sunday night dread is often dismissed as normal. For adults with ADHD, it can be an early signal of building burnout. Here is what it might be telling you.

Perimenopause or ADHD? Telling them apart when symptoms overlap

Categories: AuDHD, Daily Life, Healthy Habits, Midlife & Menopause

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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.

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