Seting boundaries in your parenting is just as important as learning to set clear, kind boundaries in all of your relationships. Even before I started this blog I was obsessed with parenting. I read as many books as I could get my hands on while I was pregnant. Like most clueless well-intentioned first time parents, […]
Tag Archives: emotional management
Your To Guide Executive Functions: Emotion
Executive functions: emotion. Managing emotions with ADHD has been a major topic of conversation in our private membership. Many of us struggle to handle anger, frustration, insecurity and a variety of other emotional and mental health issues. ADHD doesn’t usually travel alone. Being a woman and a mother in the age of The Real Housewives, […]
Parents With ADHD
There are probably millions articles online about parenting ADHD children, but there are very few about Parents With ADHD. Listen to the audio version of this post on my podcast: [buzzsprout episode=’3154318′ player=’true’] I’ve written about it. ADDitude Magazine has had some coverage of it. But there is not a lot of research available about how […]
Mindfulness for ADHD Women
I admit it, I was a skeptic about mindfulness for ADHD women. Well I was a skeptic about mindfulness in general. So like any good research nerd I set out to learn more. In one 2008 study 78% of participants who practiced mindful awareness reported a reduction in their ADHD symptoms. In fact, at the […]
From Chaos To Calm Even With ADHD
Episode 301 of the See in ADHD podcast gives you 5 simple (but not easy) tips to go from chaos to calm even with ADHD. For more info on increasing self-awareness, see this post. See this post on Emotional Management. The five strategies discussed include include: Identifying the difference between things you can control, and […]
Your Guide To Emotional Management With ADHD
Emotional management is not something you are born with. And people with ADHD often feel emotions more intensely than others. Source Up until the age of about three, we are completely dependent on our parents to regulate for us. Development of self-regulation skills continues throughout our childhood and into our early 20’s. But […]
