Becca Colao ADHD, Executive Function, Inattentive, Tips ADD, ADHD, Crap! My ADD just hit me like a brick!, Executive Function, hormones, inattentive, planning 0 Comments
Crap! My ADHD just hit me like a brick. I've been relatively lucky so far during this pregnancy- my ADHD symptoms have been limited. (This is something a lot of women with ADHD seem to report, that their ADHD isn't as bad when they are pregnant.) But today I am experiencing what I remember from […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Executive Function, Inattentive, Thinking, Tips ADD, ADHD, hyperthink, inattentive, quiet your mind, thinking 3 Comments
A lot of people talk to me about how their minds are flooded with fast thinking, and then want to know how to make it all just chill out up there. It's just tiring and there's too much going on. Here are some ideas: 1. Occupy your mind intensely. 2. Change your physical state. 3. […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Inattentive, PMS/PMDD ADD, ADHD, anxiety, cnn, depression, inattentive, menopause, pms, women with adhd 0 Comments
I love that this article about women and adhd made it into the mainstream (cnn) press. It has some good things to offer, and a few things lacking that I'd like to point out. Good:"When adult ADD (or ADHD: the H is for hyperactivity) goes untreated for years, women may end up plagued by anxiety, […]
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 […]