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Making Small Moments Count

Making the Holidays Meaningful: Connecting with Your Neurodiverse TeenThe holiday season is often a whirlwind of activities, gatherings, and traditions. While it can be a time of joy and togetherness, it can also bring unique challenges for families with neurodiverse teens. Sensory overload, changes in routine, and the pressure to meet social expectations can make the season overwhelming for everyone involved.This year, let’s approach the holidays differently. Instead of getting lost in the hu...

Quick Tips for Self Regulation

Self-regulation, emotional regulation isn’t always about the big emotions or the big stuff, sometimes its about the small stuff that builds over time to become the big stuff. For me, it’s the little things that don’t go right during the day and if I’m not on top of regulating the little things as they come up my life can turn to custard REAL quick.My AuDHD brain likes structure and knowing what’s coming up and also loves NOT knowing and surprises and interest and “ooooohhhh look...

ADHD & Showering

As I sit here doing anything but going and having a shower and stopping for the day I’m reminded every couple of minutes about the post on Instagram that I saw today and it obviously resonated with me so much that here I sit writing this post rather than going and having that shower that I desperately need.And now I have sat for another hour trying to find the post again so that I can link the post and give cred to the creator……alas I have had to go have my shower giving up on finding the ...

Scaffolding your ADHD Teen

There's that old saying that kids don't come with a handbook.... right? And neurodiverse kids OMG don't you wish they did.From day 1, I knew that I was in for it.  He didn't sleep, he didn't feed, he didn't do any of the things the way that I thought I knew how to do, and I felt so many times that I needed that "handbook" to figure things out cause there was just no-one who knew what I was going through or why things just didn't go the way that they were suppose to, and instinctively I just...

Women & ADHD

Although I have had the idea for this blog whirling around in my head for several months (you get how we do that), it has become really apparent to me this past month or so that I needed to actually get it out of my head and actually write this blog finally. The women who I have worked with this month are really struggling…. It seems common that although we all seem to have had a cruisy Christmas and New Years break, whatever that looked like for us, things are still chaotic, and why?I th...

What is coaching??

With ADHD coaching or neurodiversity coaching being new to New Zealand and actually a fairly new service being offered around the world, how do you know what to expect? What is “good” coaching? Is it value for money?“The focus of ADHD Coaching is on building skills and taking action.  Good coaching definitely helps people to improve their business focus, interpersonal skills and ability to get things done in such a way as to lead a more productive, fulfilling and rewarding life” –...

#3 Habits & the ADHD Brain

All over TikTok, Insta, Facebook, well anywhere you look nowadays there is so much stuff around ADHD and how to “manage” you life, your habits and your planning, but do they really help or give you practical steps how to implement change?Change is made (especially with an ADHD brain) in small steps, with small wins and small movement forward.  This is because the ADHD brain will have a field day with lots of new and exciting things to make things “better” and “managed” but after...

#2 Organisation & the ADHD Brain

I have bought 3 diaries. I know I know 3!! But now it’s working and I’m going to share with you how I do it in the hope that it helps your brain work at it too.I need things to be in front of me ALL THE TIME, or else I forget things. I can’t hold things in my head, there is just too much in there, song lyrics, movie titles, quotes, things I’ve read somewhere that I need for something, tasks I needed to do today or tomorrow or whatever, appointments I was supposed to have made or been to ...

#1 Goals & the ADHD Brain How to succeed in 24

Neuroscience research shows that our willpower – our ability to resist temptation is like a muscle.  The more we push ourselves out of our comfort zone the bigger this muscle gets.For 24 I’ve got some HUGE goals for ME and its going to take willpower because ADHD is the biggest SUCKER of willpower known to man – at least for me it is…… and this is how I’m doing it…. Goals – I read a bunch of stuff online, followed a heap of people on socials, looked everywhere I could (...

Overwhelm

I’m sitting here in a hotel room with fireworks going off wondering why I can’t sleep when I’m exhausted and haven’t slept in days, months really and barely holding it together and thought now is the time to actually start writing this shit down and getting it out of my head. I haven’t been diagnosed, but my mind races, I don’t sleep because of it, I worry about the most stupid and the most complex of things and realistically I do the best I can with the tools I have.My son, 15,...

Co-Regulation & Accomodation for Teens

As parents we have all been there.... needing our teen to get out of bed to go to school, to come with us to that thing or just be at whatever thing.... and they just won't for whatever reason.  And no matter how much we yell and beg and plead and bribe and use every trick we might think we have in our arsenal it does NOT work.Teenagers are a force to be reckoned with even before you throw ADHD in the mix and then you have got no sleep, meds, RSD, anger, violence and all sorts of other thin...