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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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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You’re completely absorbed in something. Ideas flowing, time dissolved, everything clicking. And some small, aware part of you knows it’s time to stop. But you can’t. If you’ve ever been stuck in hyperfocus and found yourself truly unable to switch tasks, you already know that figuring out how to stop hyperfocusing with ADHD is a
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You built a solid plan for your Monday. By 10am, the day has completely rearranged itself. A client needs something immediately. A meeting moved. Your kiddo is home sick. And the schedule you made starts to feel like it was written for someone else’s life. A lot of us with ADHD have tried multiple planning
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How often do you find yourself keeping busy, working on all the things, going non-stop, yet you have this feeling of unease or even disappointment at the end of the day because you have no idea what all this busyness added up to. Like, you’re moving and not sure where. If you have an ADHD
Personal Retreat Guide for ADHD: Reflecting and Planning in Quarters Read More »
Most of us with ADHD have likely tried blocking at some point. We’ve drawn assigned tasks to the neat little rectangles in our planners, color-coded our calendars, set our intentions to respond to email from 9-10 on Thursday, and then watched the whole thing fall apart by 9:17. For a lot of ADHD brains, time
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Have you ever looked at your summer calendar and felt that wash of overwhelm trying to creep in? The graduations and end-of-year recitals, the camp reminder emails piling up in your inbox, the cousin’s wedding, the work projects that somehow all wrap up before the holiday weekend, the friends who want to “finally get together
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Have you ever found a system that technically works, but using it feels weirdly heavy? Like every time you open your planner, there’s this low-key pressure in your chest to do it “right,” keep up, stay consistent, don’t mess it up. Because if you mess up, it starts to feel personal really fast. Today we’re
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