Seven simple sentences. Most of them sound responsible, and a couple even sound like good advice. Yet every one of them makes our experience of ADHD overwhelm more intense, longer lasting, or both. Today we’re exploring the 7 ADHD overwhelm mindsets. These mindsets create a heavy second layer of overwhelm by adding fuel to the
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10 ADHD Favorite Things Making My Life Easier This Fall Every few months I sit down and ask myself the same question: what’s actually been helping lately? Last week I made that list again, and it landed at ten ADHD favorite things, both big and small. As we move through this season change, I wanted
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For years, I spent more energy trying to prevent other people’s disappointment by saying yes and doing more. And I did so at the expense of my own exhaustion and burnout. (Can you relate?) Today, we’re talking about a specific flavor of ADHD overwhelm: the kind that builds when your compassion, your capability, and your
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Creating fall routines sounds like such a helpful, supportive idea, right? That is, until you try to rebuild all of them at once. I just got back from a week up north in Northern Minnesota, living the lake life, and it was exactly the kind of trip I needed to close out the summer season.
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Starting can take a surprising amount of energy for ADHD brains, even when we truly want to do the thing. In this post, we make sense of why task initiation feels so demanding and explore practical supports for each stage: getting started, staying focused, handling distractions, and wrapping up in a way that makes the
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If you’ve ever done a big brain dump, felt relief for about thirty seconds, and then watched your brain start spinning about everything on the list, you’re in very good company. While brain dumps can be a great first step for ADHD brains, the hard part often shows up right after. We stare at the
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There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from overpromising and underdelivering with an ADHD brain. The kind where a report delivery has been sitting on your to-do list for six days longer than you said it would. You agreed to that timeline with every intention of making it happen. Your brain mapped out a
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If you’ve ever said yes to something and felt a flicker of dread almost immediately after, about how it will fit into your week, you already know what ADHD overpromising and underdelivering feels like from the inside. Sometimes it’s an external commitment: a project, a favor, a deadline you agreed to without pausing to check
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When your ADHD brain offers “I don’t know,” it’s not the end of the road. Here are three questions to move through ADHD indecision and find the right answer for you.
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