Mental Health

If I could have one wish for the world, it wouldn’t be world peace. It would be that every child could have a loving, nurturing, and safe childhood.  I feel that if every child could have a healthy childhood, the world would be a better place and it would get rid of 99.9% of the […]

Something that can always seem to put a smile on my face or cheer me up when I have been struggling is memes. I love to search for them. I love to see them as I am scrolling down my timeline on social media. And I love to send them to friends and family that

Spoiler alert- sometimes life sucks! Sometimes it doesn’t matter how positive you are, how many wonderful things you have to be grateful for, and how many good people you have around you. Life sometimes still finds a way to suck.  Maybe you are just having a week or month where everything seems to be going

Do you have any friends that always seem so strong or happy no matter what life throws at them? Maybe they are the ones that are always listening to everyone else’s problems and seem to always have a solution, or they are the person you always go to if you need someone to cheer you

I ended up working in the health and wellness field for many years before I ever received my ADHD diagnosis. However, several of us that worked closely together ended up realizing we were neurodivergent around the same short period of time. That situation made me wonder what types of jobs out there are better suited

When we don’t practice thinking with intention, thinking becomes something passive that happens to us, and not something that we are actively participating in. When you have ADHD like I do, having all of the thoughts all at once can make it extra difficult to focus your thoughts and make them work for you, instead

If you haven’t had experience with someone who has been diagnosed with ADHD before, it can be difficult to know what to expect. While ADHD has been gaining popularity over the last few years, there is still so much that people don’t know about it. I myself have been diagnosed with ADHD, and I am

High-functioning anxiety isn’t something that I realized that I struggled with until I reached early adulthood. Looking back now, I can see signs of it since I was very young, but because I was high-functioning it made it much harder for myself and the people around me to recognize it for what it was. When

A symptom of ADHD that I’ve always struggled with, but didn’t realize it was a problem for me until after I was formally diagnosed with ADHD is time blindness. Surprisingly, I have never had a problem with punctuality and am usually early. In fact, I am rarely ever late for anything and am often left

Have you ever had an unhealthy or even toxic behavior that you wanted to get rid of or stop doing? Maybe you have realized that your actions and the way you react to certain situations aren’t healthy or have the potential, or are currently, hurting the people around you. Behavior chain analysis is a process

Most people consume some type of caffeine every day. From coffee, to tea, to soda, to energy drinks, the most popular beverages that people consume contain varying amounts of caffeine in them. So it isn’t surprising that most people with ADHD also routinely consume something with caffeine in it every day. An 8oz cup of

My anxiety used to be so bad that I experienced uncontrollable panic attacks. They embarrassed me, and actually increased my anxiety because I would often try to hide so that people couldn’t witness what I was going through. I struggled to regain control of the negative thoughts that were racing through my brain, but luckily