The Art of ADD

Like many adults diagnosed with ADHD, I was pretty ambivalent about taking medication at first. Of course the idea of getting focused piqued my interest, but part of me also balked at the idea. After all – I had done quite well in my life without medication until that point. But my psychiatrist had a [...]

It’s not very often that something truly valuable is offered to the masses for free.  But my friend Bryan Hutchinson – renowned author, creator of ADDer World and PositiveWriter.com – is doing just that. His acclaimed memoirs, One Boy’s Struggle, is available for free download, right now: http://storycartel.com/bryanhutchinson/ If you haven’t read Bryan’s stuff before [...]

Years ago, when I was still a fledgling therapist, I took a training course in Solution Focused Therapy. At the time, the idea of shifting the focus from a client`s problems onto potential solutions was still a novel one, where I was working anyway. The idea of it excited me. Suddenly, there was a way [...]

The Bad News… (it always comes first)     The Good News… (because I like happy endings)     That’s it for today. I hope you have a curious and creative day    

Hello dear friends, it has been a few weeks and I-HAVE-MISSED-YOU! I want to thank you for being “so understanding” by allowing me the space to work on other endeavors, even if it means letting go of posting for a little while. As always, I write my posts transparently for one reason: I believe there [...]

Living an extraordinary life is easy when you accept that “extraordinary” doesn’t mean “easy”.  Sometimes the first step you take towards achieving meaning and fullness in life isn’t a step forward, but sideways. For my family and myself, that step turned out to be one to the left. 2012 was a year of changes and [...]

Christmas is the time of giving. But New Year, for many, is the time for receiving – new opportunities anyway. It is the time for redesigning life and initiating changes that will make the coming year more successful, productive, enjoyable, healthy, happy and rewarding. If you want the coming year to bring with it more [...]

Christmas is quickly approaching and the pressure is on to find the perfect gift for those people who matter. Every year, it seems to get harder and harder to find just the right thing. And even though we put a lot of effort into this yearly event, the joy we feel from giving quickly fades [...]

IF YOUR CONFIDENCE HAS EVER BEEN AT ROCK BOTTOM, THEN MAYBE IT IS TIME TO HOLD THAT SELF-DOUBT ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT IT DOES TO YOUR LIFE… The room is dark and damp, the lights are bright and oppressive. Self-loathing is in the interrogation room, charged with the crime of ruining your life. It says: I [...]

If you don’t feel confident in who you are as a person with ADHD, then mastering any ADHD challenges you face is pointless. Who would you be trying to master them for? Other people? Why? So they can be happier with you, even if you’re not going to be happy with yourself? What would that [...]