Category: Education
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How Diverse is Neurospiciness?
As an ADHD coach, I often tell people the labels are not important, our goal is to find coping strategies for a better, more balanced life. Speaking with Megan Jones from CBIRT ( CBIRT The Center for Brain Injury and Training) this week, we asked the question, how similar are…
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The Culture of ADHD
How does culture, race and family background affect ADHD? Todays’s article points out what we may seem to know what is the “hidden” obvious. Which cultrual family background best fits your background? European born? Born in the USA? First Nation? Nuclear family? Single Family? City Person? Country person? Hispanic? Black?…
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Stigma and ADHD
Stigma and ADHD. Wait a minute, isn’t stigma similar to predudice? The definition of stigma is judging based health, mental health or physical characteristics. So yes they are similar, but slightly different….. We all see predudice and stigma if we watch the evening news. Can you think of some examples?…
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Dysphoria of time
Whether on a busy street, at the office or workplace, in the garden or going fishing or other hobby, how many of us suffer from Time Blindness (Time Dyphoria)? My thinking is that no matter what the circumstances we all have limited time and unlimited choices for our activities. Should…
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Time Blindness
Whether on a busy street, at the office or workplace, in the garden or going fishing or other hobby, how many of us suffer from Time Blindness (Time Dyphoria)? My thinking is that no matter what the circumstances we all have limited time and unlimited choices for our activities. Should…
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Self Compassion and ADHD
As coaches and mentors, we are often faced with a dilemma. If someone is not ready and not motivated, we will refer them to a marriage counselor or other professional. How can we be compassionate when people are very resistant to change? How can we disconnect with compassion? I must…
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Andropause and ADHD, Myth, Legend or Fact?
We all know, Women and Men are different, correct? Women present with ADHD differently. Looking at my own life now at 70 years old, I wonder how male hormonal changes have affected me throughout my life, did I suffer without recognizing the root causes? Certainly my life has been affected…
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Spiritualism and ADHD
As always, more questions than answers. What is spirtiualism? Are religous people spiritual? Can we seek truth from books, podcasts, blogs and searches with AI? Are all people inately spiritual? Can atheist also be spiritual? What can we do as ADHD people to incorporate spiritual practices into you lives? Wow,…
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How is Our Garden?
How is our garden doing? I found a multitude of benefits for myself in garden in both my experience and a search of the internet articles. Today’s picture is from my garden, apple tree, tomatoe plant and California Poppies. To produce a better crop of apples, I trimmed this apple…
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Letting go and Detaching
Wow, with ADHD and emotional regulation challenges and RSD isn’t it hard to let go and detach in our complex world? The last few months for me has been a turmoil of letting go on many fronts. Can you relate? Today’s is a focus on how to let go. It’s…