You did what everyone tells an ADHD brain to do with a big project: you broke it down into steps. And instead of feeling calmer, your brain looked at the list and thought, “There is no way I can get all of that done.” If you’re like me, that thought can send you into avoidance,
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If you’ve ever set a goal at the start of a quarter and watched it fall apart by the end of week one, your ADHD brain has probably drawn some conclusions. Mine has too. And when we sit down to plan something new, those conclusions show up as thoughts like, “Why even bother? I’m just
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Let’s talk about the experience of starting a big project with an ADHD brain. If you’re like me anyway, when it’s time to begin, the process looks something like this: Open the document. Look at it. Close the document. Check email instead. 😂 I find that big project overwhelm has a particular flavor to it.
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ADHD Life Admin: Why the Small Stuff Feels So Heavy If you have an ADHD brain like mine, it probably means that somewhere in your house there’s at least one return you’ve been meaning to drop off, alongside those donation items that have been sitting in a box for months, a form or two that
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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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