Essential Structures
For creating a life that fits
Self-knowledge
Who are you? What matters to you? How do you operate? What do you need to be your best? Self knowledge includes:
- Your strengths and challenges
- Your values and needs
- Your passions and dreams
- Your personal perspectives
- Your self-talk
- What accommodations help you
- The cost of passing as neurotypical
- Your self-care needs and routines
- Your boundaries
- Your identities and their impact
Support
What does help that is actually helpful look like? What makes an environment supportive to you? Who are supportive people? Support comes in many forms including:
- Supportive systems and routines
- Supportive environments
- Supportive people (your "team")
- Collaboration
- Delegation
- Clarity about what isn't supportive
Education
Many ADHD and neurodivergent clients find that they benefit from accurate information in key areas. These often include:
- Accurate information about brain-based conditions
- What ADHD coaching is and isn't
- Normalizing common ADHD experiences
- Different processing and learning modalities
- Drawing distinctions that can shift your perspective
Action
You cannot create a life that fits without change. In order to create a life that fits, you must:
- Take accountability
- Design and try actions as experiments
- Design supportive systems
- Develop habits that work for you
- Advocate for yourself to yourself and others