by Pete Quily on November 12, 2009
This is from someone I coached. Thought some of you might find it helpful.
Pete
What Has Helped Me with Adult ADD
Hi,
I don’t know if you have adult ADD or ADHD (I have ADD), but I sure feel for you. I was diagnosed this summer, shortly before I was fired for the second time. Looking back I realize it’s been going on for 10 years. It’s caused huge financial and family turmoil that we’re still working through. I was doing good work on individual projects, but missed I appointments, was late on important documents, and felt mentally cloudy – like I was in a shower with fogged up glass around me. In some ways the worst part was that I never felt that I accomplished enough of the items on my To Do list, and felt panicky and like a failure – even when I was being productive. Read more...
by Pete Quily on September 22, 2009
Update: ADD and Loving It! is still available online. Please let others know about it to reduce the stigma about Adult ADHD. If you think you may have Adult ADD, see the 3 next steps at the bottom of this post
ADD and Loving It! is a Canadian Adult ADHD Documentary made for Global TV by Canadian Actor/Comedian Patrick McKenna (Traders, The Red Green Show) and Comedian/Director Rick Green is now available online until this Friday Sept 25th (still up) to watch. Heard this from Heidi Bernhardt, the National Director of the CADDAC, The Centre for ADHD Advocacy Canada who was one of the people who helped to make the ADD & Loving It! documentary happen. Here’s the team that made the video possible. Read more...
by Pete Quily on September 18, 2009
Update ADD and Loving It! is still online, right here pass the word, reduce the stigma. If you think you may have Adult ADD, see the 3 next steps at the bottom of this post. Was a excellent video.
Just a heads up. There’s a new documentary on Adult ADHD called ADD and Loving It! tonight Friday at 8pm (7 pm in Winnipeg, Regina & Saskatoon) on Global TV staring comedian and actor Patrick McKenna – Marty Stevens from the TV show Traders (who I greatly enjoyed watching) and The Red Green Show. It’s written, produced and directed by fellow comedian, Rick Green.
The film’s website is TotallyADD
Patrick Mckenna and Rick Green from ADD and Loving it Canadian Documentary Read more...
by Pete Quily on September 11, 2009
Or do something good for others and get a chance to get something good for yourself.
I’m donating a month of free coaching cost $300 to Twestival Vancouver 2009. I did the same to Twestival Vancouver in 2008 where the charity was charity:water. While I do mainly focus on adults with ADHD, my initial training was as a life coach and I do sometimes coach non ADDers.
Twestival’s slogan is tweet meet give
A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales, which bring people offline for a great cause. Twestival is run 100% by volunteers and independently from any not-for-profit
Vancouver Twestival 2009 is at Ceilis Irish Pub 670 Smithe (@ Granville) on the Rooftop, Vancouver Read more...
by Pete Quily on August 3, 2009
by Pete Quily on July 10, 2009
Eileen Bailey has a good post on how to talk to your children about ADHD at Healthcentral
Young children view the world in terms of them. They may blame themselves for the ADHD, thinking they have done something wrong. Make sure you let your child know ADHD is not their fault. If you, your spouse, or another family member has also been diagnosed, let your child know.
It’s also good to mention the positives of having ADHD as well so they don’t think it’s only pathology, and they’re more motivated to deal with the negatives so they can spend more time focusing on developing the strengths of ADHD. How you frame ADHD is very important because that’s how they will likely internalize that frame. Read more...
by Pete Quily on May 16, 2009
The next CHADD Vancouver meeting is, Tuesday May 19th.
Topic: Feeding Your Child who has ADHD
Speaker: Joy Kiddie, Registered Dietician. She’s done research on ADHD and nutrition with Dr. Margaret Weiss, head of the BC ADHD Clinic at Children’s Hospital. Here’s her website
Date: May 20th
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Location: 2450 Ontario St. Raven Song Community Health Centre (between Broadway & West 8th Ave)
Joy has ADHD and has ADHD children. She’s spoken before at 2 CHADD Vancouver meetings before. She know’s her topic, is an engaging speaker, and we’ve had good audience feedback.
The next Vancouver Adult ADD support group meeting will be Tues June 2nd topic TBA.
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