My greatest academic regret is not studying history in college, despite being top of my class. I blame it on Nip/Tuck. I was 16 years old and had just a month to choose my A-Levels, similar to American Advanced Placement (AP) courses. I became so fascinated and enamored by the grandeur and drama of the […]
I’m looking for a new job. My last (very successful) freelance contract finished, and a potential mortgage on my first apartment looms. I need to find something full-time and permanent, which means doing what I hate most: job hunting. There are few things on God’s green earth more depressing and degrading than job hunting (except […]
I am a physician who specializes in ADHD and who also happens to have ADHD – and I’m on TikTok. No wait, it gets better. I am on TikTok and I’m over 30 years old. If you haven’t already stopped reading in anger, please let me explain myself. At the start of the pandemic, as […]
I was talking to a mom the other day whose 12 year old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD in 2nd grade. We were discussing some related learning challenges, and some new issues showing up now that she is in middle school. Now, this mom has been managing her daughter’s ADHD for many years, so she’s […]
Welcome to Normal Have you ever been so angry you’ve literally seen red? Or so frustrated that you could scream? Maybe so sad or stressed that curling up in a ball on your bed is the only activity you think you can handle? Guess what? Welcome to being normal! Everyone gets knocked down by emotions […]
Corey Berrier- The Sales CEO has over 25 years of experience training individuals and teams on high performance sales processes. The Sales CEO is a boutique coaching firm specializing in sales development with a focus on ADHD. Using his ADHD superpower Corey has developed systems and processes that allow business owners to maximize employee experience […]
“My brain is an overstuffed garbage can,” my son once told me. “And the lid won’t stay on, so stuff is falling out all over the floor.” That’s how he describes what it is like to have ADHD. I thought I understood ADHD when he was diagnosed. By that point, I was a published academic […]
Bill Hamlen was born in Schenectady, NY and raised in Bernardsville, NJ where he attended Bernards High School. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1984, Bill joined Drexel Burnham’s commodity division. While at Drexel, Bill worked in various areas including the international order desk as well as many different “pits” including all of the metals, […]
I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I decided to stop taking ADHD medication or when I took my last dose. By the time I graduated college, I was convinced that I had outgrown ADD and no longer needed to take any pill, and I believed it for many years. I had a successful career and […]
Adam Coutts has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for twenty years, mostly through weekly sitting groups, eight-week classes, corporate webinars, phone trainings, and one-on-one coaching. For the past couple years, he has been leading a “Mindfulness Meditation for ADHD/ADD” course in corporate settings and in phone trainings. He has sat meditation daily for thirty years […]
Talking is easy; Real communication is much harder. In my daily communication, I feel like I’m captaining the Titanic, hitting the iceberg and abandoning ship, only to return and raise the sunken boat from the icy, deep ocean with all my emotional strength… again… and again…. Despite my best efforts, I keep making similar mistakes, […]
David DeWitt is a registered investment advisor and podcaster who helps adults with ADHD take back control of their money. He’s been a registered investment advisor for 6 years but it wasn’t until he had his ADHD awakening in early 2021 that he realized he wanted to work with other people with ADHD. David knows […]
