Nancy Ratey is a gift to the ADHD community. Not only is she a well-respected ADHD coach, but she also has ADHD herself and can offer an interesting perspective that others may not. You might be asking yourself: “Why would an ADHD coach suggest a book that is intended …
How many times have we spoken to ourselves like this: “I am so stupid.” “I’m fat.” “I am a mean person.” “I’m not important.” “I am a failure.” Self-criticism: the act of or capacity for criticizing one’s own faults or shortcomings We learn self-criticism early in life. Maybe …
If you are familiar with my blog, you know I’m a big fan of meditation. More recently, I’ve learned a lot about how meditation physically changes the brain. I have long known the benefits of meditation, specifically to reduce stress and anxiety, but the physicality of the brain change is …
Every once in a while, I find myself wanting to cry with joy as I’m recapping a client appointment. Today was one of those days. A client came to me wanting to get his work life in order. What he didn’t realize at the time was that once …
Everyone’s ADHD manifests differently. The understanding of ADHD as a whole is important, as are different perspectives on how to best manage ADHD traits that may get in the way. Here are my current Top 10 (in no particular order) books and a short review of each: ADHD …
Our brains are constantly constructing anticipated outcomes based on thousands and thousands of past experiences. Every time we have an experience, the brain revisits former experiences, layers on data from the new experience, and creates a more substantial model for future experiences. But what happens when the data …
Attribution: The interpretive process by which people make judgments about the causes of their own behavior and the behavior of others. (Merriam-Webster) Whether we are aware of it or not, we make attributions about our own actions or the actions of others all day long. To explain attribution, Fritz …
The quote “All I need to know I learned in kindergarten” is so true. Well, mostly true. We learn life skills later in life, but one of the most critical skills we need to succeed is social skills and those skills we learned during our young and formative …
No matter how you look at it, change can be daunting. Sometimes because we don’t know where to start. Sometimes because we get started and don’t know the next step. And sometimes, we get started then beat ourselves up about not starting sooner. No matter how you look …
Why do we procrastinate? Procrastination, in its most basic form, is short-term mood relief. Here’s how it goes: There’s something you don’t want to do, let’s say writing the report your boss asked for by the end of the week. You’re a little nervous about it because you …