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7 ADHD Tips for Staying Asleep Longer

If you know someone who lives with ADHD, sleep and the reduced levels in quality of general sleep time can regularly be noted as something that plagues their lives. Sleep is an absolutely vital to allow effective functioning of the brain, particularly mood, focus, concentration, general health, and also well-being.…

How This One Question Changed my Life

Back in the 1980’s, while living in New York City, I saw a therapist, named Dr. Isabella Bick for a couple of years who really made a difference for me. It was not her great therapeutic skills, necessarily, although I am sure she was skilled enough, but for me it…

Slut Alert! Ladies Don’t Buy This Slut Shaming Hoax

Gloria Steinem once said that “any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke.”  I realize how true this statement is as I consider a recent blog posting that…

Boost Your Wellness in 2018

Wellness Tips for 2018 Consider this: 8 million adults have ADHD/ADD. That’s 8 million adults who struggle with organization, focus, and keeping on task (to name a few things). What’s more, over half of those with ADHD also have some form of mental health disorder such as anxiety or depression.…

Using Music Therapy To Help Adults With ADHD

When people think of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), they often think of children. That’s partially because it’s easier to diagnose in young people. However, there are many adults who suffer from ADHD as well. If you are one of these, you need to know about a growing area of…

The Significance of Protein in an ADHD Diet

Protein is an important part of the human diet. This nutrient contains the long-chain amino acids that the body needs to repair itself. Every day, our bodies can go through normal wear and tear, but it can easily be repaired using protein we get from our diet. Some people, like…

9 ADD Friendly Foods to Improve Memory

The following guest post is from Pete of liveningup.com If you’re one of the millions of people in the world who has ever found your television remote in the freezer or searched frantically for your car keys before locating them in your pocket, then you may be able to benefit from…

How to Improve Communication With Your ADHD Partner

By Leslie Rouder, LCSW The great Carl Jung once said that “Loneliness doesn’t come from having no one around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that are important to you.”  Although this is a universal truth,  in the case of those who have ADHD, communication can certainly…

The Shocking Truth About Developing Good Habits (part 1)

By Leslie Rouder, LCSW Are you a person who believes that you always do what you intend to do?  Most people would probably answer yes.  However, despite what you may believe,  research shows that the majority of people, do not.  In fact, most individuals have far less control then they…

The Shocking Truth About Developing Good Habits (part 2)

In my last Newsletter I explored how the unconscious mind dictates much of our automatic behaviors, making it very difficult to break old patterns of behavior and establish new habits.  In this article, I will explore this further and provide a useful exercise that taps into our unconscious resources while…

Mystery Schools of the Western Mystery Tradition

The following is a guest post by author, teacher and founder of the Euypsychia Institute. By Jacquelyn Small “Robbed of its mystical tradition, an outer system  is like a rose without its perfume.”                                   …

May Thought for the Month

“Don’t identify too strongly with what you now know; that “truth” is impermanent.  Identify with the possibility that at every moment you can emerge from your blind self to see in the dark.”                                   …

The ADDer’s Guide to Spring Cleaning

By Leslie Rouder, LCSW It’s that time of the year to consider those spring cleaning projects.  Clean out your closet?  Maybe it’s the garage or attic that needs to be cleaned?   Or perhaps it’s just all those dresser or kitchen drawers that seem to have accumulated mounds of clutter.  Where…

Romance, Love and ADHD

It seems the more I listen to people in and out of my therapy practice, the more I realize that, for many of us, achieving a healthy love relationship is often fraught with much difficulty. Obviously, there are multitudes of reasons why people may have difficulty forming healthy long term…

What I Learned About Improving One's Life from Bryan Hutchinson

This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Bryan Hutchinson, who is an inspirational writer and author of several books about life with ADHD, including the bestselling and well regarded memoir “One Boy’s Struggle“.  He’s also the author of the blog ADDer World and the founder of the ADDer World ADHD social network. Lately, Bryan…

How to Thrive in 2013

As we leave 2012 behind, and begin 2013, it helps to set our intentions for the upcoming year, while taking the time to reflect on where we have been. The following 4 steps provide us with a guide to developing a mental blueprint for achieving these intentions and thriving in…

Warning: This One Mistake Could Ruin Your Marriage

In my practice I see many couples with concerns around keeping the romance alive in their marriage.  If I were to determine the the single most detrimental thing one can do in damaging one’s relationship, it would be to not pay attention to one’s spouse.  I know that sounds too…

What I Learned About Procrastination

Last month, I shared my frustration with my ongoing procrastination in getting started on my monthly newsletter.  As a result, I said that I would work on the next newsletter for 30 minutes each day and promised to report back to you on how I did.  In keeping my promise,…

What You Need To Know About Integrative Breathwork and Why You Need to Do It

By Jacquelyn Small, Founding Director of Eupsychia Institute Breathwork is an ancient spiritual practice in both Eastern and Western traditions, widely known for its healing and transformative abilities. This process of deep inner work raises our consciousness beyond society’s mass consciousness, or any programming we may have received.  It is…

November Tip of the Month

Ever forget where you park your vehicle?  Well, there’s a great APP called “Take Me To My Car”, which is available for your iPhone that will solve this problem.  This APP was developed by a graduate student at Stanford University, who frequently forgot where he parked his car.  It is…