Is there a way to indulge and really let go with those things that we can hyperfocus on without losing ourselves to the negative consequences that usually hit us? When the tsunami of things we forgot to do because we were so immersed in our hyperfocus...the shame spiral! Oh the shame spiral!! I have some thoughts on that.Mentioned in this episode:Check out Episode 76 - Hyperfocus: Superpower or Superbummer?Check out Episode 79 - How to Manage an ADHD Life, The Episode to ReferenceCheck out the NEW look of the ADHD Big Brother Forum!Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

People with ADHD have a less than stellar working memory.  We are currently working through a workbook by Dr. Ari Tuckman called Understand Your Brain, Get More Done, and the working memory portion has given us a lot of helpful tips and strategies. His 3 main principles to strategize working memory are (I'm paraphrasing):Make important tasks and items stand out so you see them and can focus on them.eliminate distractions to help maintain focuswrite things down rather than try to keep them in your headThese are great strategies. If you are interested in his workbook, you can google it or see it here.Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

Here is an update on what depression feels like inside my skull spaghetti. ADHD and Depression are not easy mental roomates, but we are all doing the best we can! I mention again the power of community. The challenge for you this week is to reach out via email or the contact form on the website with your declaration of "the thing you are going to get done tomorrow." Make sure to be specific and include:The specific thing you will be working onThe specific time you will start on it (make it an appointment in your calendar to remind yourself tomorrow)The amount of time you will be working on it. (do NOT work on it until it's done. If the timer goes off and you aren't done...make sure you celebrate that you did what you said you were going to do. Acknowledge the victory before you jump back in to finish.Feel free to send another email when you are done and any insights you got from the completing the challenge!Have a great week!RussCheck out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

Join the host as they discuss the challenges of consistency with goals and tasks, positive experiences with body doubling, and the benefits of using a bullet journal. The speaker explores the difficulties of maintaining consistency and motivation while establishing habits and shares strategies for achieving consistency in overcoming ADHD and depression. They also discuss the importance of self-reflection and finding alternative solutions when faced with failure.

Community is a big deal for adults with adhd and depression. It's also one of the hardest things to engage in when I'm in the middle of a depressive episode. Today I'm talking about some of the ways in which we can get the benefits of a community. Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

What do we do when pills aren't on the menu? Does that mean we don't have any ability to treat our depression? Well that doesn't work for me so I'm working on a 30 day prescription for my own depression. I've been living inside a depressive episode for a few weeks now and I'm turning up my efforts at treating it. I'm doing this without medication and I'm very curious if it's going to make any positive change. We shall see! If you have a holistic way of dealing with your depression, I would be very interested! Please reach out through the website www.adhdbigbrother.com Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

We got two mental situations to be aware of this month! Are you aware of ADHD? Are you aware of depression? Let's honor the month, you wanna? In this episode I'm offering up some FREE access to the forum - see the footer notes below. I'm also spending some time this episode walking through how I move the needle forward on planning and executing on a project. Ugh, even the word project...we can do it, though! Who wants to join me on my challenge this month? Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

I loved getting to speak with Antonia for this week...and she helped me get an understanding of the power of the weekly to-do list, which I've been trying and it's working! I'll share my weekly to-do in the forum (link below) Antonia Bowring is a highly credentialed, top New York executive coach. She works primarily with founders, C-Suite executives, and leadership teams. One of Antonia's areas of expertise is helping neurodiverse leaders create the necessary scaffolding to leverage their gifts and maintain their focus. She is a frequent speaker to companies and groups on topics ranging from mindfulness, ADHD in the workplace, and communication best practices. Her articles through the Forbes Coaches Council are widely read and The American Reporter named her on of the 10 leadership coaches to watch in 2022. Antonia's book, "Coach Yourself" is out now and ready for your eyeballs! Antonia's website: www.ab-strategies.comAntonia on LinkedInInstagram: @antonia_abstrategiesannnnnd Antonia's TikTok! @antoniabowring963*************************************Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

I have a very special guest on the show today! It's Debbie Carvery! Debbie is a LIFT Online Learning Facilitator + Coach. She believes Complex Trauma is not a life sentence. Having processed her own Complex Trauma with LIFT Online Learning, she has discovered there is hope and healing. Debbie’s interest in recovery from Complex Trauma has led her to countless hours of research, reading and learning about Inner Child Work and Internal Family Systems.Debbie has completed COMPASS Facilitator + Coach Training and holds a Counseling Certification from the Canada Christian College and is certified as a Food Addiction Coach and Recovery Coach from the Addiction Academy.When not working with participants online, she can be found making friends, spending time outdoors with trees, or reading.For more information about the work Debbie is doing: https://www.timfletcher.caClick here to get the pdf version of her book "Hello Inner Child"For a physical copy of her book, you can get it on Amazon by clicking here.To contact Debbie and/or get the pdf she gave us for working through Internal Family Systems, you can visit the forum link here:*************************************Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more

It really sucks when I have a big project or goal and the advice to chunk things down into smaller components doesn't work! Chunking down is supposed to be what fixes things...I'm a big fan of the chunk down, but we still need a way to move our needle forward when the chunk is bunk. When we have bunkin' chunkin' we need some funkin' help. I have a couple ideas in today's podcast.Check out the forum!Check out the 8 Essential ADHD Big Brother Episodes, curated and ordered specifically to get you primed and ready to successfully manage your ADHD life! JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED ADHDERS🎯 Unlock the power of community-driven, gamified accountability!ADHD Coaching by Community—designed for YOU.🚀 Ready to jumpstart your ADHD journey?Try it out - 10 days for $10! CLICK HERE NOW!Struggling to stick to your goals? Join the ADHD Big Brother Consistency Crew—an ongoing small-group program designed for ADHD brains to build routines, stay consistent, and make progress that lasts. You can jump in anytime! Spots are limited (max 7), so grab yours now! CLICK HERE to learn more