Renewing and Recharging With ADHD

Renewing and recharging. Walking in nature is a big one for me.

The challenge is to renew and recharge regularly so that you don’t burn yourself out! When you have ADHD, you tend to go, go, go — until you JUST CAN’T because you went too far without knowing you were going too far.

Pick One to Support Yourself

* Ease and Grace

* Compassionate Curiosity

* One thing at a time

* What’s the tiniest step I can take?

These are all ways you can support yourself as someone with ADHD.

With genuine support

— from people who understand ADHD —

the more you can be the amazing unique soul you are.

YOU Matter

What to do with a season of too-muchness for someone with ADHD?

You already have a million thoughts zooming inside your head. The addition of this season can blow out your coping circuits! ⚡️

Go against the flow of what’s around you (unless you find that energizing and sustainable for you!)

You Are Amazing!

You are AMAZING. Truly, you ARE!  However, if “I’m not that bad” is as much as you can manage right now, please stop for a moment and find a statement that does not have a “not” in it.  Our brains disregard those negatives and tend to focus on the rest of the sentence.  Hence, “I’m […]

Gratitude

As I’ve struggled with writing three different articles over the past few weeks and not yet published a single thing, it finally occurred to me to write about something that I am so absolutely familiar with that I would have to completely snuff it out with perfectionism for it not to get published!  So, with […]

“I Should…”

“I should  _________________________.” How do you fill in the blank?  Got a long list of stuff that you “should” do?  Yeah, me too, but I am ever so careful to keep my awareness of that word on high!  When you hear (or think), “You should (blah, blah, blah, blah, blah),” don’t you get the sense […]

Organizing … Part of Self-Care?

What do you think of organizing?  More importantly, what do you think of yourself when it comes to organizing?  This is an area that many of us either glorify or curse.  We look at the homes of our organized friends and think, “Ah, what would it be like to live like that?  My life would […]

Caring for Yourself by Pursuing Your Passion

As I watched a mesmerizing performance by Missouri Contemporary Ballet a couple of years ago, tears came to my eyes.  Tears?  Why tears?  I experienced the simultaneous feelings of total bliss and deep sadness.  The bliss was very easy to understand because I love dance.  I love watching dance, and I have always loved to […]

Good Night?

Did you have a good night?  Are you having good nights?  Sleeping, that is. When your nights are not good (or just too short…), your days tend not to be good either.  Up to a point you can exercise the old “mind over matter” strategy and affirm having a good day despite your sleep deprivation, […]

Lullaby…and Good Night…

Sleep, glorious sleep, why are you so elusive?  For me, anyway.  How about you?  Are you getting enough sleep?  Are you getting quality sleep?  I don’t remember sleep being so problematic when I was a kid.  But, it does seem to be problematic now, so it deserves my attention to make it the best I […]