ADHD Fidget Toys: Finding What Actually Works for You

ADHD Fidget Toys: Finding What Actually Works for You

I want to tell you a cute little story about my company. When I first joined four years ago, we had a company retreat to Minneapolis. I was super nervous, and I didn’t know if my weird would gel with everybody’s weird.  I remember we had a big meeting that was...
ADHD and Screen Time: 5 Ways to Interrupt the Doom Loop

ADHD and Screen Time: 5 Ways to Interrupt the Doom Loop

Arthur Brooks, a professor at Harvard Business School, is a social scientist and one of the leading authorities on human happiness. I have been reading his book, The Meaning of Your Life, and wanted to share a bit from his chapter titled “Interrupt the Doom...
Why You Keep Repeating Yourself (And What To Do Instead)

Why You Keep Repeating Yourself (And What To Do Instead)

I hear some version of this constantly. Why is he late to work every single morning? Why do we fight about homework almost every night, and the fight usually takes longer than the homework itself? Why do I have to ask my kid to do the dishes ten times before it...
The Most Productive Thing I Did This Week Didn’t Look Productive At All

The Most Productive Thing I Did This Week Didn’t Look Productive At All

As a working mom with ADHD, I often joke that I have 70+ pots on one stove. There’s dinner to make, appointments to remember, emails to answer, kids to get where they need to be, laundry to fold, meetings to follow up on, and somewhere in there… maybe I’ll...