Good News: Everyone Doesn’t Hate You – What is RSD and How Do You Deal With It?
Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) is a strong, painful, and sudden emotional reaction to rejection, criticism, or failure.
Self-care means different things to different people. Living with ADHD as an adult is mentally, emotionally, and physically draining, especially without self-compassion, self-awareness and routine self-care practices. Building a strong foundation of self-care is essential to making effective use of tools and tactics.
The Building Blocks of Self-Awareness for ADHD
Many people assume that self-awareness comes naturally. In reality, it can be hard to develop, especially for people with ADHD.
Building Blocks of Self-Compassion for ADHD
Self-compassion. What is it? Why do we need it? How do we get it? These are all the questions we need to answer to grow as humans. In fact, self-compassion is at the start of many of our ADHD journeys.
How the Stages of Grief Can Explain the ADHD Diagnosis Journey
After you’ve been diagnosed the real work begins. Not only for you, but your family as well. One can compare the journey most of us go through after diagnosis to the stages of grief.
Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: 13 Cognitive Traps
This article will be about cognitive distortions, or traps and how they can influence your thinking. These are NOT unique to ADHD yet I find I’ve been guilty of all of them at times. We’re only human after all.
Own Your ADHD
Stop wasting your own time and money wondering what you’re doing wrong or what’s wrong with you. You already know, you just haven’t connected the dots yet.
Be Your Own ADHD Advocate
With ADHD you HAVE to be your own advocate! I share my story to inspire you to become your own health advocate, so you can understand no one will do as good a job as you will.
![Great stuff from @neurodivergent_insights
Part One of a Six Part series on neurodivergent sleep.
I suspect my fascination with sleep science largely comes from the fact that I have had a lifelong struggle with sleep.
As a child, I had terrible night terrors that would wake me up screaming, or I’d be out about the house, adventuring on one of my sleepwalking adventures.
Insomnia has always been my companion during big life transitions. After the birth of my children, I experienced insomnia, and despite whatever I did, I could not “sleep when the baby slept.”
My relationship with sleep and daytime sleepiness has been a lifelong struggle. Until I began studying the overlap between neurodivergence and sleep, it never occurred to me that my lifelong sleep struggles may be a sign of my neurotype! Turns out that with my late-in-life Autism-ADHD discovery, my sleep mysteries are solved.
And while my sleep patterns are far from perfect, I have learned some powerful tools along the way to help me get back on track when I’m in the middle of an insomnia loop.
I'll be sharing some of my favorite sleep resources (as well as their limitations for ND people) as we go through this series.
For a full deep dive, check out my blog post that goes with this post (linked in stories), where I go into much more detail, or check out my sleep workbook (available in the link in bio, Patreon, and on the website).
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