Your Brain's Not Broken

The Nothin’-but-Blue Pattern

Those with divergent patterns love to ask, “What if?” or “Why?”

emotional fatigue. Why are we so exhausted? It is exhausting being us because we have feelings about every task that we do. Add the “big feels” to our other ADHD symptoms like anxiety, hyperactivity, and hyperfocus, and they take a toll on our energy level.

They carry a chronic sense of worry or tension, the sources of which may be unclear, in their upper back and neck.

3. Midday Practice. Try setting a midday alarm for a system check.

The most significant thing you can do for your child is to create a strong, healthy relationship with them. There are four characteristics that create that relationship: endless empathy, trusting respect, stubborn love, and gentle honesty.

Children who develop self-efficacy learn to believe they can rely on their abilities when facing a challenge.

However, individuals with ADHD find themselves hanging out at one end or the other of this emotional spectrum. They tend to rest at a 1 or 2 with very low emotion, then experience a sudden surge to a 9 or 10, flooding the brain with a single intense emotion.

At the end of your allotted minutes, have you hit a sense of flow? If yes, keep going! If not, take a quick break, take a deep, slow breath, and ask yourself, “What is getting in the way of completing this task?”