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How to Build a Support System for your ADD/ADHD
A support system is crucial when you’re dealing with ADD/ADHD. Use these 5 tips to build yourself a network to help you get through difficult times.
How to Explain ADD/ADHD to your Friends & Loved Ones
If your friends and loved ones are unfamiliar with ADD, you may find yourself needing to educate them on your symptoms and how you manage them. Here are some tips on how to explain ADD/ADHD to your friends and loved ones.
How to Manage ADD/ADHD in Social Situations
ADD and ADHD can present challenges in social situations. Here are some helpful strategies for how to manage ADD/ADHD in social situations.
4 Strategies For Emotional Regulation
Although emotional regulation often comes naturally, there are times when keeping one’s instinctive emotional response in check can be a challenge. To help improve your emotional regulation in those moments, use these four strategies.
5 Tips to Help You Monitor Your Focus
One of the keys to improving your focus is to first figure out when, where, and why you tend to lose concentration. Follow these 5 tips to start monitoring your focus today!
Mental Flexibility
Mental flexibility is the ability to adapt one’s behavior quickly in order to handle different situations in different ways. One of the side effects of living with ADHD is that you lack mental flexibility. Find out how you can manage your mental flexibility in this blog.
How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Focus
Research has shown that mindfulness, when adapted for ADHD, can improve focus and concentration. In a fast-paced world with countless distractions and demands on our focus, mindfulness and meditation have gained popularity.
Streamline Your Life Using the Principle of Multiplicity
One of my clients wrote a document that she calls the “Jones Principles”. These are attitudes that she has learned throughout our coaching over the past several years. One of the Jones Principles is the principle of multiplicity. In other words, if you are going to put the work in, make it so that you […]
Streamline your Life, Reclaim your Freedom!
When you first walk in the door to your home after a hard day at work, how do you feel? Do you sigh with pleasure because you’re finally in your safe spot, or do you just want to run away because your home is a stressful mess? Have you ever wanted to invite friends over, […]
Holiday Tips to Survive the Most Wonderful Time of Year
For some of us, the holidays are truly “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”. For others, not so much. Holidays tend to accentuate whatever is prevalent in your world. If things are going well, there is no family strife, and your social calendar is full, maybe it will feel like “The Most Wonderful Time […]