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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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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If you’ve ever come back to your to-do list and had absolutely no idea what a note meant, even though it made perfect sense when you wrote it, you’re in the right place. For those of us with ADHD, this happens more than we’d like. Our working memory performs differently than most neurotypical brains, which
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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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