Becca Colao ADHD, Learning 2 Comments
Just a word about reading today, because SO many people with ADHD beat up on themselves about not reading a lot, or reading books from start to finish. I find it intensely weird, but ever true that some things are so easy to read, and I fly through them, but others are like pulling fingernails […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Executive Function, Inattentive, Systems, Thinking 0 Comments
In an earlier post I said that when other people told me I worried too much I used to think they were right, and get, well, worried. And that now I get annoyed instead, which is an improvement. Nowadays I think about it in terms of how I work. As I said in that post, […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Baby, Executive Function, Inattentive, Mommy 2 Comments
I talk about this more often. On a less spacey day, I'll go back and check what I've said before. It's a spacey day today, and lately my ADHD has been hitting a bit harder than it had been- I think it's a hormone thing, or the stage that my toddler is in at the […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Thinking "in your head", ADD, ADHD, inattentive 2 Comments
From the feedback from my teleseminar last week, it seems like I'm not the only one who gets stuck in her head, though people are starting to say I'm that person who talks about it. Ok, I knew I wasn't alone, because I've worked with a lot of coaching clients with similar experiences. That's part […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Executive Function, Inattentive, Thinking 1 Comment
It's happened once again. Someone has told me about how certain techniques were supposed to be good for them and they just seemed to do the opposite. I think I've held out on talking about this stuff because I'm not an expert, and because there really does seem to be research that tells an opposite […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Thinking 0 Comments
In college, my astute psychiatrist sent me to learn relaxation techniques. I had panic attacks during the relaxation exercises. So we stopped.This lovely man, Ron Gatsik (I mention his name because he was so kind and helpful, and has since passed away) didn't know that I had ADHD; adult ADHD was unknown at the time. […]