I’ve been quiet lately.
Probably too quiet.

Back in March, lovely new people joined this community from the ADHD Toolbox group. Hello and welcome. And if you’ve been here a long time (or even if it just felt like a long time), thanks for waiting.

I’ve been on a semi-sabbatical.
Walking my walk, no...

I’ve been choosing a “word of the year” wrong this whole time.
And honestly? It almost broke me.

For years, I forced myself to pick something that sounded impressive. Productive. Like what a “good” productivity coach should choose.

But trying to live up to words that looked good on paper—yet felt ...

Picture this: It's December 22nd, you're at the mall for the third time this week, standing in the holiday aisle feeling completely overwhelmed. Your mom's expecting that elaborate Christmas dinner, your kids want the "perfect" holiday experience, and you're already exhausted just thinking about coo...

There's this invisible rule that says you have to power through grief, show up perfectly for the holidays, and keep all your commitments, especially as women.

But what if that rule is actually destroying the very peace we're desperate to create?

Picture this: You're holding a glass of water. Not h...

Because you don’t need more willpower — you need more grace.

There was a trunk sitting in Molly’s house for years.

Inside it? Hundreds of medical records from her daughter’s birth — surgeries, hospital notes, insurance forms. Every time she looked at it, her chest tightened. So she closed the lid ...

This weekend, while watching College Game Day at Penn State (We Are!), I saw a moment that had me thinking about ADHD success in a whole new way.

A student, William, had the chance to kick a field goal for $100,000.

He paused, looked at the crowd, and made a bold decision: instead of taking the s...

Labor Day weekend, we took a boat tour around Assateague Island to see the famous wild ponies. And of course, my ADHD brain went straight to: systems.

Stay with me here — because those ponies turned out to be the perfect metaphor for why one-size-fits-all systems never work for ADHD women in midlif...

Have you ever felt the grief of realizing your ADHD wasn’t caught until midlife?

It can hit like a wave — all the years you struggled, masked, pushed harder than anyone else, and thought it was just you. The truth is, the grief you’re carrying isn’t just yours. It’s generational. It’s systemic. And...