Adults with ADHD Find Atlanta ADHD Coach an ADDed ADDvantage
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) was a real possibility for a 65-year old successful entrepreneur; for an athletic coach for a major baseball team; for a 40-year old computer architect; for an independent lawyer; for a photographer; a graduate student; a medical student and for all of my other adult ADHD clients. And then through medical diagnosis it became a reality and their lives began all over with Your Attention Coach ADHD Coaching.
Your Attention Coach ADHD Coaching begins at any point in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis process, is both in-person, non-clinical and may occur on the phone; Your Attention Coach clients achieve freedom from fear of the unknown through ADHD education; Your Attention Coach clients may achieve an experiential healing from inattention, distraction and impulsive behaviors; they learn new styles of management for self-control and time management.
Call Maureen Nolan, ACC, Your Attention Coach for an Atlanta ADHD Coach for ADHD Coaching at 404-713-0488.
Maureen Nolan, ACC is an Atlanta ADHD Coach credentialed in ADHD coaching by the ADHD Coaching Academy, is a certified ACC by the International Coaching Association, is the only ADHD Coach in the country certified by Dr. David Grand in Brainspotting and has studied at LifeWorks in Atlanta in Body/Mind Coaching, Positive Thinking and the Law of Attraction. She is a creative coach, small business owner and is an active member of the ADHD Coaches Organization. In addition she has taken extra ADHD Coach training by Jodi Sleeper-Triplett through the EDGE Foundation to become an EDGE Foundation Coach for academic success of students from ninth grade through a lifetime of academics. Maureen believes in the healing aspect of coaching especially of ADHD coaching – not curing it but healing the impact of it on life’s decision making, through improved information processing, goal setting and personal achievement.
Experience and Passion for ADHD Coaching
Before forming the Your Attention Coach business, Maureen was a former trade magazine editor and Communications Specialist for a school for students K-8th grades with ADHD and LD, she also edited Kids Enabled Magazine, an Atlanta-area resource that addresses the challenges of caring for and teaching children with learning differences and has been published in ADDitude Magazine. She led ADHD support groups and ADHD coaching groups for goal achievement. Her son is a graduate of Landmark College, a premier two-year college for students with ADHD. Maureen’s two children live with the impact of ADHD and are the reason she was similarly diagnosed and eventually became an ADHD coach.
Positive Thinking and ADHD Coaching
Maureen’s increased focus in attention coaching is an outgrowth of the Positive Thinking movement. Her coaching instructs clients in ADHD education,
as L.B. said ‘I learned more in one hour with Maureen about ADHD than in six months with my psychiatrist,’
with a belief that education is power. She also believes in collaborative relationships with all the support professionals a client brings to the relationship, or is referred to through their work together and instructs clients in community building for their life-long support. In addition to the conventional education and training, Maureen is interested in Graphology (Handwriting Analysis) as an assessment for attention – as attention is a state of consciousness that is expressed in handwriting.
Maureen Nolan, ACC, Your Attention Coach has practiced ADHD Coaching with bilingual clients, clients as far away as Dubai and is passionate about international ADHD coaching. ADHD does not distinguish among nations!
Atlanta, Georgia schools in the 1960’s did not recognize the relationship between ADD-ADHD and education. I was a straight C+ student, very quiet and reserved, not a problem to anyone (but myself): a classic female inattentive ADHD student. My sister was a brilliant ADHD student, not very quiet and full of anger at the unknown impact ADHD had on her life: a scholarship winner and summa cum laude college graduate. There’s no doubt our lives would have been different with early diagnosis and ADHD coaching for symptom management and success.
Not much has changed in the ensuing thirty-five years. Students and ADHD go hand in hand but now there is Maureen Nolan, ACC an ADHD Coach to walk with clients through the morass of misery with untreated ADHD symptoms.
Call Maureen Nolan Atlanta ADHD Coach for your ADHD needs.
ADHD is a social diagnosis, meaning along with the diagnosis comes new relationships. When my son was diagnosed he was very social about it, raising his hand in class to share the good news with all his friends. That’s one kind of social that involves an already existing relationship group.
Along with an ADHD diagnosis other relationships are formed. There’s the psychiatrist who diagnosed the ADHD and may prescribe medications; the teacher/student relationship may change as the teacher comes to understand both the intent and the genesis of a student’s class behaviors; the therapist who works with the family; and the ADHD Coach who also works with the family and the client.
So, working Together, Everyone from the client to the coach Achieves Management.
What do you want managed?
Call Atlanta ADHD Coach Maureen Nolan, ACC for more information about TEAM Coaching at 404-713-0488.
Atlanta ADHD Coach Maureen Nolan, ACC coaches adults and students with ADHD attention challenges. Maureen wants you to be focused, attentive and stimulated at home, at work, at school and at play. ADHD is marked by inattentiveness, distractibility and disruptive or hyperactive behavior that changes over time and with age. ADHD coaching clients are ready for change, for creating exciting life challenges and opportunities, are tired of their ’status quo’ and don’t want to repeat their mistakes anymore. Maureen was trained in part by Jodi Sleeper-Triplett as an EDGE Foundation Coach:
Call Atlanta ADHD Coach Maureen Nolan, ACC, for ADHD Coaching to achieve direct goal accomplishment through focused attention to your passions, for creating your attention flow in any environment and for your focused pleasure in life. Maureen is an expert in coaching for your attention needs. Maureen Nolan, ACC is Your Attention Coach.
The first major transition in my life was our family move to Atlanta, Ga. from Cleveland, OH when I was ten years old. My mother said I cried half-way through the several day drive. I left behind my cousins and friends and everything I knew and felt comfortable around to arrive in the American South of 1963; it was a land of accents and heat and summer rain storms and incomparable natural beauty and racial discrimination. I believe I became a ‘problem’ for the first time, fighting and feeling left out. I did not transition well.
If you are moving your children to a new location;
create immediate comfort with group play and sports organizations;
create leadership opportunities;
enroll your child in classes where he/she already excels for continued self-esteem.
My second major transition was to a public high school from a parochial school in our neighborhood. My mother was already driving my older sister in a carpool to her private Catholic high school and did not want to drive another (this was 1967 when driving was a limited activity and 20 minutes in each direction was an official outing), so I walked to the nearby public school. I did not transition well, feeling isolated among yet another new group of peers. I isolated myself further and appeared ’shy’.
If at all possible keep your child with his/her group of friends for high school
Isolation is unhealthy – create an ongoing opportunity for your child to be involved in leadership training
Just because your child is quiet and well-behaved does not mean he/she is happy – talk, talk, talk with your child about everything.
The third major transition was to college in St. Louis where I had lots of family to visit and be comfortable around but it was a difficult transition as again all my ’support systems’ of a few friends and the familiarity of my surroundings were gone along with any sense of being tethered. I was a wild child for a while and rue the day I was let loose without structure.
Get your student a coach! Learning to live away from home is a skill – it’s not natural to be on your own since we are community beings.
At the same time, your student needs to learn to self-motivate. A coach is a transition figure in your student’s life – the transition from your roof to being independent.
You need independence, too! Get yourself a coach to transition you through the empty nest years.
I’ve since transitioned into the work world, marriage and motherhood, each with its challenges and happiness. I’m transitioning after divorce now, and I have discovered the same is true for all my transitions: Setting Goals and creating support relationships make my life work. I am now working with other entrepreneurs in a supportive group setting at New Tricks where we share our business goals, challenges and successes.
I believe in your greatness and anything I can do to propel you there is my duty, joy and passion.
I believe that the universe is conspiring for your success.
I believe that there is enough of everything for everyone.
I believe that love is the answer.
I believe that education is power.
I believe that attention is the gift of being human to be treasured, honored and cultivated to the dignity of the planet’s health.
I believe that we can give attention away to be misused or we can develop skills towards its management.
I believe that attention is a state of consciousness similar to feelings and actions.
I believe that attention is a necessity of life that transcends food, shelter and clothing. Without attention can we achieve the rest of life’s necessities?
Which Came First: Consciousness or Unconsciousness?
National Public Radio played an interview with Cal Tech scientist Cristoff Koch on the source of consciousness. I looped around in my head for a while looking for a landing spot to store and process his concept. The best I could do was to believe he was saying the less you pay attention the more you pay attention. It’s like dreaming for answers; disconnect the left/logical brain from the right/creative brain and you’ll be there, wherever that is.
It oddly made sense to me since I use dreamwork with clients for brainstorming and problem solving. In other words the less you try to force a solution the more clear the solution becomes. Daydreaming really works and is a form of consciousness that is sorely underrated. So if you’re looking to solve that dratted math problem stop trying so hard to pay attention. Let your eyebrows relax. Move in to your unconscious to find the answer.
Excuses, excuses. They are the bane of life with ADHD. How often are excuses used and how much creative energy goes into making them believable? How close to lieing do they come? Are they lies and deceptions? Is there an edge of excitement that goes along with an excuse? Is it believable? What is its value? Can you keep track of the excuse and how often is the same one used?
I first remember thinking about excuses when an aunt told me she thought my mom had made too many excuses for me and my sisters when we were young. The comment felt like a double insult – one to me and then one to my mother. I still have a physical reaction when I remember her comment. Then years passed and excuses were made and used to get me into and out of trouble – too many commitments, too many appointments missed, too many friends miffed at me. Something began to dawn on me – a routine use of excuses was unhealthy. It was not mindful living.
Change behavior and change your life.
Once I got it and it took a really long time to get it – then I began to see that excuses weren’t necessary. It’s a simple thing to say no in the first place; it’s important for me to gauge my time because no-one else will do it! I realized I made excuses for my children, just like my mom with the same unknown dimension: the ADHD factor. Learning about ADHD I have learned about excuses.
My clients learn that in our coaching the ‘homework’ is done or not done. The excuses have no meaning unless we backtrack to the core event, emotion, feeling or challenge that puts the excuse mobile into motion. I struggle with disruptive behavior of my own, inattentiveness and distractions all day every day. I’m a pretty classic case study of standard ADHD so I know what’s going on for my clients.
I believe that a twelve step approach to changing your excuse use will get it under control while simultaneously learning about your brand of ADHD will lead to more time living in success and less time living in fear of being ‘found out’.
What was your most creative excuse and what is your new understanding of the inherent value of excuse recovery?
Attention is a state of grace and after losing my attention over and over again I want a better relationship with grace. Keeping my attention is like keeping God in my mind. What can be done to live in that attentional grace space?
Two years ago the Dalai Lama convened a symposium on mindfulness as a treatment for depression at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. It’s a short drive from my home, so I invited my sisters and daughter and together we attended the weekend event with some close friends all of whom live with ADHD or who work in the field of ADHD service. Representatives of major faiths presented their organized religious perspectives on mindfulness or meditation to the Dalai Lama. Scientists presented papers to the Dalai Lama on studies on meditation and its impact on mindfulness. The Dalai Lama was conversational, inquisitive, funny and friendly as the material was discussed in front of a few thousand attendees. He was serious in his investigation on the value of the Buddhist practice of mindfulness as a means towards health and wellness which impacts our ability to attend to what is important in our lives.
Since that event, I’ve recommended the practice of mindfulness to clients, teaching them on the spot how to live in the present moment as anxiety is an expression of future fear and extensive regret is related to living in the past. All we have is now.
When you have anxiety or regret that feels overwhelming, get two balls and juggle them slowly, back and forth from hand to hand. Do something you think is silly; anxiety and silliness cannot coexist in the same moment. Feel the position of your body – where is it? Where is your foot, your hand, your fingers? Tell yourself what you feel tactilely – how does the fabric you’re wearing feel? How does your hair feel? Pull yourself into the present moment and practice this mindfulness.
Tell me, how are you now? What do you want to pay attention to in the present moment?
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