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How to Empower Your Unique Child and Find More Peace Parenting ADHD
As parents, we tend to find fault with ourselves for our kids’ challenges. We dedicate ourselves to our children, yet doubting ourselves as parents, we may overcompensate. We want our kids to have agency, but when we take on their challenges we can disempower them. Here are three ways to empower your unique child, and find more peace parenting ADHD.

Emotional Flare-Ups with ADHD Getting the Best of You? Four Ways to Pull Through
Individuals with ADHD can act without thinking with regular temper flare-ups and impulsive outbursts. This is difficult to tolerate and can lead to embarrassment and shame for the person with ADHD. Here are four ways to pull through so emotional flare-ups don't get the best of you.

Build Strong Connection with Loved Ones in Three Genuine Ways Living with ADHD
Living with ADHD can be intense, and life with those we love can sometimes feel strained. When we take a moment to connect, this adds warmth and closeness to the relationships that are most precious to us. Here are three genuine ways to build a strong connection with those you love when you live with ADHD.

Unlock Meaningful Change in Three Proven Ways Living with ADHD
When living with ADHD and related challenges, there can be a history of failures and missed opportunities, making it difficult to move forward with meaningful change. Here are three proven ways to help yourself and your loved ones unlock resistance to change and stay on track.

Discouraged Over Technology Use with ADHD? Take these Steps!
When living with ADHD, impulsivity, distractibility, difficulty focusing, and restlessness are common symptoms that can impact the over-use of technology. With consistent interruptions and bouncing between devices, each media-related task gets partial attention. In a world where we crave human connection, we feel drained, cheated, and frustrated. Here are three strategies to help you address technology overuse when living with ADHD.

Make Your Headlines Pop with CoSchedule's Headline Studio for Entrepreneurs with ADHD
When you live with ADHD, it can be tough to express yourself in a way that's short and to the point – especially when you’re sharing lots of great content with your customers and clients. Now there’s a new tool called Headline Studio that can make your headlines go from passable to amazing. Here's how you can zero in on Headline Studio's unique features.

Overcome the Burdens of High Achievement and ADHD
You’re the accomplished, go-to person whom people count on, and just about everyone does. But the piled-up projects, numerous spinning plates, and mounting stress have gotten to be too much. Here are three strategies to assist you in overcoming the burdens of living with high achievement and ADHD.

ADHD and Vulnerability: How to Reboot Under Stress
As the world’s shifted over the past month, it’s logical to tell ourselves to crank it up and knock off the projects looming on our to-do list. But when the ADHD brain senses danger or stress it powers down to survival mode causing less effective problem-solving and vulnerability to perceived failure.

ADHD and Uncertain Times: How to Get Things Done Now!
In these uncertain times, it’s tough to manage our work, our families, and ourselves. Add the extra layer of living with ADHD and related challenges, and it can be overwhelming to problem-solve, make decisions, communicate and follow-through.

ADHD Stressing You Out? How to Gain Control Now!
Stress has a way of finding a constant place in our lives. Tack on living with challenges such as hyperactivity, trouble focusing, and poor organizational skills, stress comes with the territory. Living with ADHD can lead to feelings of overwhelm, hopelessness and loss of control as well as co-existing mental health conditions. However, no matter how stressful things get, you can regain control.

Help for Outbursts and Frustration in ADHD Now
Summer’s in full swing and for families living with ADHD that means freedom from homework headaches and school stress. The hope is a more relaxed, less structured summer. That said, we know all too well that small setbacks can blow up into frustration, outbursts and meltdowns. With summer finally here, how do we manage these long sunny days, so “the livin’ is easy?”

Why ADHD and Mindfulness are a Promising Twosome
When it comes to ADHD, mindfulness develops awareness and attention. Mindfulness is learning to step back and observe one’s thoughts and feelings, without judgment. What results is a resilient, more positive self-image for adults and kids with ADHD.

Four Tips to Reduce Clutter and Stress with ADHD
If you or a loved one has ADHD, you know all too well that managing things and stuff can be overwhelming. Unless those things involve your personal interests, your mind may focus on other things that interest you.

Four Ways to Make the Most of Family Time
Our three kids loved the Chicago Museum of Science of Industry, with so many fascinating exhibits you could barely cover it all in a day! Plenty of preparation went into planning this day-long trip to the south side of Chicago.

Six Strategies to Manage Your Emotions and Problem-Solve
If you're a person with ADHD you may feel your emotions more strongly and react to them more immediately.