You get home from the day out, close the door, and something in you goes flat. Why socialising costs an ADHD or AuDHD brain more than it looks, why the replay starts at bedtime, and how to plan the recovery as carefully as the event.
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There is no shortage of productivity advice out there. Most of it is written by people whose brains work in straight lines. If you are running a business with an ADHD or AuDHD brain, you do not need another system designed for someone else. You need tools that work with the way you actually think, [...]
My phone lives on a stand in the kitchen, and the small inconvenience of having to go and get it is exactly why I use it less. Why willpower is the wrong tool for screens with an ADHD brain, and what to do instead this summer.
You get to the end of the day and cannot point to a single thing you actually finished. You were busy the whole time. You barely stopped. And yet the list is longer than it was this morning, and the one thing that mattered is still sitting there, untouched. If that is a familiar feeling, [...]
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 [...]
You can hardly move for talk of AI at the moment. Some of it is exciting, a lot of it is noise, and if your head already feels full, the whole subject can be one more thing you have no energy for. I want to offer something calmer. I am an ADHD coach. I have [...]
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 [...]
