Becca Colao ADHD, ADHD Coaching, Systems, Tips ADD coaching, ADHD, ADHD coaching, Flylady, Organizing 0 Comments
I want to post a review of a free online resource for keeping up with household stuff, but before I do that I want to talk about my take on what I'd call pre-fab systems. A lot of people (coaches, professional organizers, etc) have specific systems and tools they like to recommend or set up […]
Becca Colao ADHD Coaching, Current Affairs, Executive Function, Inattentive ADD coaching, ADHD, ADHD coaching, inattentive, intelligence, IQ 1 Comment
…"researchers find." Link is here, and really the biggest thing I want to say about this, is thank goodness. Thank goodness that researchers are bothering to find out this fact, which may seem obvious to some of us. The fact they are finding is not so much that high IQ doesn't "help" but that high […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Executive Function, Inattentive ADD, ADHD, Executive Function, inattentive 1 Comment
Today is one of those days when I can't choose which step to take next. This morning I was trying to figure out whether to go to my local coffee shop before or after a midday appointment. (I concentrate really well on some kinds of work in a coffee shop instead of my home office.) […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Learning ADD, ADHD, chewing gum, classroom, exercise ball, hyperactivity, inattentive, learning 0 Comments
I recently read that one elementary school has opted to replace regular chairs with exercise balls. It seems that the school has figured out what a lot of us already knew (especially those of us working from home): the active nature of sitting on the ball helps posture, gives us that added work in our […]
Becca Colao ADHD ADD, ADHD, online communities 0 Comments
I just started hosting a half-hour chat on Tuesday mornings at 9:30 AM ET over at a new online community: www.womenwithadhd.com. You can join for free, and take part in the forums over there as well as my chats, among other things. For the guys as well as the gals, there are two other communities […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive ADHD, inattentive, social anxiety 1 Comment
Social anxiety is a topic that's been coming up a lot lately, for example, over here and here, both over on addforums.com. It's a disorder that is diagnosed independently, or as comorbid with ADHD. But I've also noticed that there is some social anxiety that is, for me anyway, built in to my experience of […]