Liz AhmannEver wonder if you are doing too much for your teen or young adult with ADHD? It can feel tricky to find the balance between support and doing too much!
This short video from Attention Talk Network features Adult ADHD Coach Jeff Copper interviewing Youth ADHD Coach and Coach Trainer Jodi Sleeper-Triplett on the important distinction between “enabling”
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Liz AhmannIf you have ADHD, no doubt you have heard all too often that “you don’t try hard enough” or some other such message that has pushed your shame buttons. This can lead some individuals to give up and lead others to strive harder, sometimes getting caught in a perfectionist mentality.
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“Some people can pick themselves up from problems, dust themselves off and move on. But my daughter Julie just doesn’t know how to do that. How can I help her?”…
Liz AhmannGuest blogger and financial consultant Dr. Joel Lang ([email protected]) shares eight money management tips for young adults:
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Liz Ahmann Liz Ahmann“I am way behind on bill paying, and I have late fees piling up!”
“Taxes are due and I can’t find my papers!”
Common ADHD symptoms of impulsivity, lack of attention to detail, disorganization, and procrastination can make it hard to stay on top of one’s finances.
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“I told you that I was frustrated, but how did you guess I might be ashamed?” a client with ADHD recently asked, acknowledging an emotion many prefer to ignore.
James had been telling me how his struggles with procrastination had gotten him behind on some work projects.
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The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes executive functioning skills as the key skills for life and learning:
“Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways.
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Liz AhmannSummertime, and the livin’ is easy… as the sweet song from ‘Porgy and Bess’ goes.
Here’s a twist on that way of thinking about summer: along with livin’ easy, summertime can be a great time to develop executive functioning skills and strategies to make livin’
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