ADHD Coaching Blog
Hey,
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Warmly, Tony
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Executive Functioning and ADHD: Understanding Your Brain’s Ups and Downs
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent a fair chunk of your life wondering why some days you can take on the world, and other days you can’t even take on the washing up. This isn’t just the stuff of motivational memes or the latest productivity hack-it’s the lived reality of executive functioning variability, especially for those of us with ADHD
Cognitive Masturbation and ADHD : When Overthinking and Hyperfocus Feel Productive But Go Nowhere
Stuck in mental overdrive, forever researching and planning but never quite acting. This article explores cognitive masturbation in ADHD, how overthinking and hyperfocus hijack your focus, and gentler ways to shift into movement.
ADHD in Adult Relationships – Navigating Challenges and Building Connection
ADHD can profoundly shape the dynamics of adult relationships, creating challenges that often feel overwhelming but are far from insurmountable. Traits like impulsivity, emotional reactivity, and difficulties with attention can lead to misunderstandings, strained communication, and a sense of disconnection between partners.
Neil’s story
Before I started coaching the biggest challenge in my mind was not being able to understand why everything seemed so simple for everyone else. It seemed quite hard for me.
Charlie’s Story
Before coaching with Tony I didn't fully understand the different elements of ADHD and how much it was impacting my life … Tony’s coaching sessions feel really relaxed. That helped me to feel comfortable and safe.
Unlocking Success: How ADHD Business Coaching Can Accelerate Your Professional Growth
As professionals, we all strive for success and growth in our careers. However, adults with ADHD often face unique challenges in the workplace that can hinder their progress. This is where ADHD business coaching comes in. This specialised form of coaching is designed to help individuals with ADHD unlock their full potential and accelerate their professional growth.
Executive Functioning: The Heart of ADHD Challenges
Executive functions are the brain's management system. They are a set of cognitive processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Understanding executive functioning is crucial for anyone navigating the ADHD landscape, as it forms the foundation of many of the difficulties experienced by those with ADHD.
Rewiring the ADHD Brain: Strategies for Conquering Comfort Zone
For those with ADHD, the struggle between embracing change and clinging to familiarity can be particularly intense. Our nervous systems, crave the comfort of routine and predictability even when we intellectually recognize the need for growth and transformation.
Polarising ADHD Around Gender is Wrong. Here's Why
Let's get straight to it - the notion that ADHD presents fundamentally differently between genders is flawed. While there are some variations in how symptoms manifest, polarising the disorder around gender oversimplifies its complexity and does more harm than good.
The Kaleidoscopic ADHD Brain: Turning Ideas into Innovation
The ADHD brain possesses a remarkable ability to think creatively and see possibilities that others miss. It's like having a radar that can scan far into the future and perceive a wide context around any given situation. The ADHD creative mind can connect seemingly disparate ideas and envision innovative solutions. It sees a project's original scope, but also recognizes opportunities to expand and enhance it in ways that surpass initial expectations.
Why Self-Compassion is Essential for Adults with ADHD
Living with ADHD can be a rollercoaster that leads to frustration and self-doubt. Let's look at why self-compassion is so crucial for adults with ADHD.
Unlocking Self-Awareness: Essential Steps in Managing ADHD
One of the most important aspects of managing ADHD is developing greater self-awareness about where we may hit challenges and what we need to do to support ourselves.
This can be a substantial ADHD challenge in itself since it requires - foresight, planning, organisation and probably most importantly of all and often overlooked - permission from ourselves to make our own lives easier.
Constructive Conversations: Rebuilding Communication in ADHD Partnerships
The love, trust and companionship of my dogs has been a constant in my life for 25 years and I wanted to share some key learnings that I think are very relevant to the ADHD experience.
Emotional expression requires trust and things start to get complicated when we anticipate the responses of other people. Of course, we want to be honest and kind yet unambiguous and usually day-to-day this isn’t too much of a problem. But it can really become a problem if one of two things happens. Or much worse both.
The first of those things is responding to the response instead of the stimulus. The second ‘thing’ is when this plays out with, or includes, big and important values and emotions. Like trust, loyalty, anger, shame, guilt, respect, honour, love etc.. In these situations responding to the response can quickly become supercharged, toxic and destructive. Personal boundaries are going to be seriously challenged.
Streamlining Immediate Goals: A Simple Filtering System for ADHD
I was helping a client to explore her need for a filtering system to prioritise her demands, without this the ADHD brain is frustrated by executive challenges.
Ironing Out ADHD Wrinkles: Finding Structure Through Daily Routines
We hate structure but we need it to function as it has a close relationship with the concept of control. We need to feel we have control.
Recognising Vulnerability: The Key to Managing Burnout and Preventing Escalation
I’ve had an interesting conversation about stress and burnout recently. Burnout and tiredness often go together and this can impact cognitive functioning.
Overthinking
The creative brain is a fantastic thing. Many of my clients are solutions imagineers in some way, seeing the possibilities, making the impossible possible. I find their company rewarding and stimulating. But the creative brain comes with some challenges of its own including the propensity to overthink.
My Teddy Is Art
I’ve been thinking of putting Teddy on the wall as a piece of art in a display case in my new place. Sometimes, we have the idea first without really understanding where the idea has come from or why and it’s taken a while to understand some of the things that Teddy represents for me.