International ADD-ADHD Coach Maureen Nolan, ACC

February 19, 2010

International Focus on ADHD Coaching as Personal Commitment

Maureen Nolan, ACC is an Atlanta ADHD Coach
She is a creative coach, small business owner and an active member of the ADHD Coaches Organization.
Maureen has taken extra ADHD Coach training by Jodi Sleeper-Triplett 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Life with ADD is More Fun with Support!

February 14, 2010

Success with ADD Comes More Easily with Support Systems

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.

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Attention to Discomfort

June 24, 2009

Itching to be Distracted

Itch to Calm Your Bug Bites

Itch to Calm Your Bug Bites

There’s a web of skin between my little finger and ring finger with a bug bite, a little red, raised itchy angry spot shouting for my attention. And there’s another one on my left ankle. And another on my middle right toes, not counting the river of bumps under my right forearm. Something is is under my right shoulder blade and suddenly my left front thigh is shouting out for an  equal opportunity scratch.

By now, you’re itching, aren’t you. Don’t stop. Share the agony with me. This itch is something that I want to share with everyone. I’m bitten up from my toes to my neck, from shoulder to shoulder, from stomach to lower back. I feel like the little girl I once was who woke up one morning to discover bites all over my stomach and back because of  a hole in the window screen.

This time however, I was way more active seeking out the bugs from the meadow to the lake to the waterfall and back again. I worked at acquiring each and every bite walking up the steep slope and down the dirt path. That night my friends and I laughed at stories about bed bugs while anesthetizing ourselves with fine wine. I had a ball but next time, I’m bringing bug spray.

What do you do about bug bites? Epsom salts? Crosses made with fingernails. Share your favorite remedy…and hurry!

This is a practical attention issue, there’s nothing esoteric about it. However, for the most recent research on scratching, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07itch.html.