Menstruation and ADHD: Navigating Hormones, Life, and Neurodivergence
It’s starting again… ....the moment you’ve been dreading all month. As if the breakout on your chin wasn’t enough of a warning, the bloating has made squeezing into your clothes feel like an Olympic event. You’re not sure what’s worse—the cramping, the lower back...
Managing the Overwhelm of “Doing It All”
3 Practical Ways to Lighten the Daily WorkloadEver feel like your to-do list is never-ending—and if you don’t do it, no one will? Or maybe you’ve felt the heavy weight of mom guilt, wondering, “If I don’t play long enough with my child today, will they still feel...
ADHD: How missed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and late diagnosis impacts our sense of self
As a therapist who specializes in working with adult women with ADHD, I can attest that in most cases, it is a late diagnosis. That means that inherently, in each case, there was not just a missed diagnosis but also one or even several misdiagnoses along the way....
It’s Time to Rename ADHD – Here’s Why it Matters
What’s in a label…… As humans we love a good label. They allow us to quickly make a determination about something and move on. We can conserve precious time and energy with an effective label. A proper label helps us to understand and, in some cases, even helps to...
Why are Women set up to fail at self-care?
November 29th, 2022 “Self-care” – has arguably become one of the most diluted terms in mental health today. Exploited by self-help gurus as capitalistic fodder,...