ADHDLeadership

The Blog

Field notes on mental health, mindset, leadership, ADHD, and emotional intelligence - (hopefully) sharp, compassionate, and a little feral. Expect practical tools, dry humor, and zero fluff to help you live, work, and love better.

 

When the Drive Disappears

ADHD, Motivation, and the Strange Stillness of Getting Stuck

Goal-directed persistence is the ability to stay focused on a goal over time, even when it’s boring, hard, or emotionally uncomfortable.

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Transactional Analysis and Power Dynamics in Organizations

As my teen prepares to enter university, we’ve spent countless hours reviewing her AP courses for the year. 

Five in total: Economics, Literature, Government, Statistics, and Art, plus a couple of ho...

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The ADHD Edge

 Most conversations about ADHD in the workplace still operate on the same tired spectrum: either it’s framed as a liability to be managed or a legal checkbox to be ticked.  

For years, corporate stra...

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Reclaiming Yourself After a Life of Survival

Some of us didn’t have childhoods.  

Not really.  

We had small windows of stillness in between chaos, long stretches of silence filled with the weight of adult responsibilities, and the invisible a...

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Well, that happened. Now what?

Life has an uncanny way of throwing curveballs that derail our best-laid plans, often leaving us scrambling for control over the uncontrollable. The job opportunity that falls through, the relationshi...

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Becoming Minerva: Reclaiming the Goddess Within

Some discoveries feel like they were meant to happen, even if they come by accident.  

Mine began with a simple mistake - a recurring misspelling of my name as “Minerva.”  

Autocorrect has renamed m...

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A Field Guide to Living on the Ragged Edge: Stress, Burnout, and Brownout 

Modern life has a way of feeling like a relentless game show, except you’re not sure what you’re playing for, the rules keep changing, and the host is just a little too smug.  

Between juggling work ...

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Communal Coping In Leadership

Coping, in psychological terms, refers to the strategies individuals use to manage stress or adversity. Early research on coping - pioneered by psychologists like Susan Folkman and Richard S. Lazarus ...

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The Hidden Realities of Late ADHD Diagnosis in Women

Imagine a woman falling through the cracks and becoming invisible as she struggled for many years to keep her head above the waterline of a busy life. 

That woman was me.

In my thirties or forties, ...

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What We Can Learn About Power from Rock, Paper, and Scissors

When my daughter was little, we used to play rock, paper, scissors, giggling as we negotiated who would do what or simply in competition. The rules are simple. 

Rock crushes scissors. 

Paper covers ...

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The Games People Play

My teenager has a habit of warning her friends before they meet me. “She’s a coach and a trauma therapist,” she’ll say, “Don’t even try to pretend. She’ll be able to smell the trauma and insecurity on...

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Scale You While Scaling Your Business

Scaling a business is not for the faint of heart.  

It's exhilarating, sure, but also slightly terrifying when you realize it's not just your operations, revenue, or customer base that needs to grow ...

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