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Teaching and Parenting ADHDers: Stay Cool as a Cucumber
Both Teaching and Parenting humans with ADHD can feel like playing pin the tail on a running donkey; do you remember that silly birthday party game from your early [...]
Setting Goals: A Powerful Tool for Focus and Direction
Goal setting is an empowering process that offers clarity and guidance in your personal, academic, and professional journeys. Will you take a moment, after reading this post, to [...]
The Story of a Spoon
This story is based on a real conversation between two friends who were catching up at a local diner. Using spoons as a unit of energy, one friend shared [...]
Question of the Day for Busy Families
Have you tried using a question of the day to connect with your family? It’s a simple trick I’ve picked up recently to keep in touch with my bustling [...]
Start Strong In September With These Three Steps
A sense of anticipation fills the air as the leaves change to vibrant yellow and school buses circle up in the parking lots. It's a time when the slate [...]
Don’t Be Afraid to Go Your Own Way
Don't Be Afraid to Go Your Own Way. In a twist even Fleetwood Mac couldn't predict, our eldest's 'Go Your Own Way' chorus involves a detour from the path [...]
To React or Respond? That is the Question
🤔 To react or respond? That is the question! Both reacting and responding are totally and completely human actions. The difference? Reacting traditionally involves feelings and memories and can [...]
Coaching Vs. Therapy: What’s the Difference?
Coaching and therapy may share some similarities, but they are not the same thing. If you're wondering about the distinction between coaching and therapy, check it out! If you [...]
Happy Mother’s Day 2024
Embrace Self-Care on Mother's Day Motherhood and caregiving bring immense joy and fulfillment to our lives. However, these roles and the responsibilities that accompany them present us with a [...]
7 Key Executive Function Skills and Their Powerful Remote Control Buttons For Your Brain
Last week Jenny McKeand and I had the awesome opportunity to talk with the founders of Journey Peds, a clinic in Edina, MN that specializes in speech, language, [...]
The Battle of Minds: Thinking Brain vs. Feeling Brain
In the intricate landscape of a teenager's mind, two distinct entities resided - Thinking Brain and Feeling Brain. Thinking Brain was the embodiment of calmness, coolness, and rationality, always [...]
Keep It Between The Lines: Your Guide to the End of the School Year
The road is dark and windy, creating limited visibility ahead. The familiar route that I've traveled before now feels slightly unnerving due to the combination of rain, wind, and [...]
How Fidgeting Helps Your Brain Focus
Are you looking for ways to sharpen your focus and increase productivity? Research suggests that even small physical activities, like fidgeting, can have a significant impact on the brain's [...]
Does Music Focus or Distract Your ADHD Brain?
Based on an article featured in ADDitude on May 20, 2022 Music has a profound impact on the ADHD brain, offering a unique blend of structure and stimulation [...]
The Six Pillars for Positive Life Change: Do Them Every Day
Maybe your New Year's resolutionary feelings are fading, but you still feel strongly that you want to make change. What are you waiting for? Take the pre-spring opportunity to [...]
Leaning into Neurodiversity as an Identity – Not Something to be Fixed
Neurodiversity celebration week is one month away! What are we celebrating? Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different [...]
3 Benefits of Emotional Regulation I’ve Learned From the Passengers’ Seat
Your Rollercoaster of Emotions Happiness. Sadness. Disgust. Fear. Surprise. Anger. Emotions come in all shapes and sizes, don't they? You may already know that your emotions can vary [...]
Empowering Note Taking Guide for Teen ADHDers
The Note Taking Guide for Teens with ADHD High school demands top-notch study strategies, time-management tools, and organization skills. In the spirit of tackling one key area at a [...]
