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The Rethink Stress Program
…with corresponding workbook activities and reflection sheets, the free online course teaches a three-step process that Crum and colleagues successfully used to help individuals learn to see stress as helpful…
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ViewCalming Down and Cooling Off
…to as emotional dysregulation. For clarification, emotions are physical states whereas feelings are the conscious labels we put on those sensations. For many people the emotion that is most difficult…
ViewSeeing ADHD in Full: Permission as a Foundation of ADHD Care
…giving up too soon when strategies don’t work right away. Granting yourself permission—or withholding it—creates a logical chain of cause and effect. Denial and avoidance limit possibilities, keeping ADHD’s challenges…
ViewStay Cool Through the Yule
…activities could include: call your grandma, sweep the front steps, take a walk, count all the windows in the house, count all the doorknobs in the house, line up all…
ViewCoping with Sensory Overload
…not struggle with sensory bombardment may not understand or cannot parachute into our minds. Have a go-to phrase you can use, such as “I get very bombarded, this is not…
ViewEight Tips for Successful ADHD Family Travel
…children don’t follow her lead because they “are afraid that their children can’t do what others can. The truth is, while some experiences may need to be modified or certain…
ViewAce the Break: How to Avoid the “Summer Slide”
…The COVID-19 pandemic has changed that because many kids, of all ages and abilities, are already several months behind before summer break even begins. New research released this school year…
ViewFinding Focus: Attention Training for High Schools
…to use attention to enhance positive emotions and to reduce and manage difficult ones. The daily four-minute exercises are referred to as Daily Beats, since most of them involve music….
ViewI Can’t Stop Thinking About It
…negative thought. Instead of thinking, “They did not return my text because I was too outspoken at that meeting,” consider that “They might be busy, it is a hectic time…
ViewYoung Drivers with ADHD
…negative driving events differed for those with and without ADHD, such that distractions in the form of young passengers, poor weather conditions, and cellphone use appeared harder to overcome for…
ViewWhy ADHD Is More Challenging for Women
…particularly ill suited to meet the social expectations of other women. They may have difficulty showing up on time, remembering social commitments, suppressing urges to interrupt in conversation because “I…
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