If you follow me on social at all ( you do, don’t you? Find me on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram if not) then you already know that I love Alexa. I was super skeptical about incorporating her into my life because like anyone else I have been convinced that Alexa was going to spy on…
Creating an ADHD bedtime routine was a struggle for me. Routine used to be a dirty word in my house. I would create a routine, get bored, and fall out of love with it. Then I would feel like I failed. Then I would try again with a new routine. This repetition made me feel…
If ever a place could lend itself to a lack of sanity, it is the workplace. There are so many distractions to contend with. You have interrupting coworkers, a mountain of emails, and a ringing phone and all you want to do is get through your to-do list. Even if you haven’t started ADHD coaching…
I love adult coloring books. I did not always, but this coloring thing has been a trend for so long now that it has managed to break through my hardened skepticism about new trendy things. Some studies show that coloring helps to relieve stress and anxiety and even produces positive changes in heart rates and…
This essay will be perfectly imperfect as I am a Black woman who is living with and managing the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD is a mental health condition exhibited by difficulty maintaining attention and can severely impact and impair the use of executive functions and hinder task completion. Our executive functions help us…
I make jokes all the time about how being an adult is a scam. It’s funny how we long for the day when we become the masters of our own destinies only to discover that being the master of your own destiny is NOT as fun as it looks from the outside. Being a grownup…
Learning to say no puts you in charge of your time and other resources. I call this practice “guard your yes with your life.” When you’ve learned to guard your yes, you feel a MILLION times better because you’re not as overwhelmed as you once were. Boundaries are essential to your health and happiness. They…
I used to be a magnet for difficult people. The toxic people who are frustrating to everyone. The selfish kind with no type of empathy. The narcissistic kind who try to run smear campaigns on me when I finally get sick of their sh*t. If there is a type of jerk for a person to…
“Not right now” is what we say when the time is not right; when we have other things to focus on, or if we just don’t want to do what’s being offered. There are a million reasons to say no to anything and they are all valid reasons. If your plate is full, don’t keep…
“Everyone knows how to clean a kitchen,” I can hear some of you saying. That’s part of the problem. When it is assumed that everyone knows how to do something, people grow into adulthood where they’re too ashamed to admit to their lack of knowledge. Trust me, there are plenty of adults in the world…
