Category: Education
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What Healthy Habit Can We Develop this Week?
Reflecting on the Blue Zones from a few weeks ago what healthy habits can we develop this week? For me, I started flossing, brushing and using a waterpik on my teeth every day about 10 years ago. I wonder if this has prevented CAD? Certainly my teeth cleanings are less…
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Should I disclose my ADHD at Work? with family? Friends?
This is a complex question. The answer is different for each situation. We need to ask ourselves, why am I sharing? What feelings do I have about ADHD? Am I embarrassed? Ashamed? Happy? Grateful? How close am I with the person, people or family? What motivates me to share my…
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The Blue Zones Paths
Have you seen signs on businesses, health care providers and other venues, “Blue Zone” Providers here? Have you been to a Blue Zone seminar or retreat? What are the Blue Zones? If you haven’t heard of the Blue zones or want to explore further, I’m attaching a few resources. Dan…
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Masking? WHO ME??
What is masking? Who me? In my picture today, I’m covering my face with my hands. Is the masking we are talking about on the outside? No of course not. Masking for Neurospicy, neurodivergent people can be as simple, for instance as a person with dyslexia, or cognitive challenges pretending…
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PMDD and ADHD Woman are different than men…. WOW! who knew?
Premenstruel Dyphoric Disorder, those pesky mood swings with the Menstruel cycles, and also premenopausal, menopausal changes that woman so often suffer. Once when I was teaching nurses like 20 years ago, a young lady walked up to me and said ( poking her finger in my chest from her 5…
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Neurospiciness yay
What does Neurospiciness mean? YaY?!! Another terminiology we can add to our vocaculary. When I was training to become an ADHD coach, it was a battle to give up my training as a Nurse and Family Practice Nurse Practitioner. EVERYTHING needed an accurate diagnosis and a specific plan of action,…
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ADHD, DEI and Compentency
Happy New year. Hoping everyone had a good holiday time. Do we as ADHD people, neurospicy, neuorodivergent fall under DEI? Diversion, Equity and Inclusion is such a complex, yet simple Paradigm, is it not? A paradigm is almost a quarter….. How does competency fit into the DEI paradigm? Who is…
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Scientific FACT!, Science Fiction and the Scientific Method and ADHD
Have you ever been in a conversation or argument and someone adamently says, “It’s a Scientific FACT! that ……….. covid is caused by aliens …. or ADHD medications are too dangerous and really don’t work ….. or Food dyes cause Alzheimers ….. or Vaccines cause Autism….. or the list is…
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ADHD Burnout, Winter Solstice a Time of Rest and Renewal
I have attached an article about ADHD burnout. How many of us can relate to “Burnout”? ADDers seem to have a different take on all parts of life, don’t we? Burnout is a human condition, that’s for sure. Like many other things in life, ADHD burnout is a bit different.…
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Can Any of us AFFORD the price of HATE?
How are we doing? I see the government shutdown should end this week, yay! With all the controversy, I’m hearing and seeing people talk of “HATING” so many things. I HATE ICE, I hate Democrats, I HATE Republicans, I HATE the Homeless, I HATE billionairres, I HATE corporations, I HATE…