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Chatting at CHADD With Some Amazing People

By totallyaddauthor

We are back home after a week in San Francisco. 4 days were spent at the CHADD conference speaking with some legendary figures and conducting 19, count them, 19 interviews. We hired a great local crew and taped some powerful stuff. At some points, our hotel suite was almost like the waiting room of a doctor’s office, only it was full of doctors, waiting to be interviewed…

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Off To CHADD

By totallyaddauthor

We’re off to see the Wizard. Actually the Wizards. The Wizards of ADHD.
Russell Barkley, Ned Hallowell, Rosemary Tannock and dozens more.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who have or deal with ADHD are coming together this week…

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Success & Focus/Strengths & Weaknesses

By totallyaddauthor

Last week we drove to Boston to do a show at the PBS station WGBH. They’re going to be running our new documentary, ADD & Mastering It!. A big coup for us!   After that we were off to Albany and the PBS station WMHT. In between, Jimi and I paid a visit to ADHD legend Dr. Edward ’Ned’ Hallowell.   We talked and talked and talked…

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A Body Double Helps You Zip Through Paperwork

By Linda Walker - ADHD Coach

Have you ever thought it would be fun to have a body double? In Hollywood, actors use body doubles to appear in films with six-pack abs and tight, firm bodies without eating anything but seaweed and grapefruit while working out five hours a day. Less popular politicians and dictators also use body doubles, but in that case, it’s because people are out to get them.
Imagine if you had your own body double…

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Using a Coach-Approach in Parenting

By Elaine Taylor-Klaus

Parenting ADHD kids can be stressful, overwhelming, isolating and frustrating. It’s complicated, and often unclear where you as a parent need to focus. Is it school-work? Is it respect at home? Is it everything at once? There are so many different options for treatment. How do you decide what to do next?…

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ADHD in the Workplace

By Team TotallyADD

A recent infographic on edudemic.com outlined some interesting shifts in the future labour market. Generation Y—“Millennials,” those born between 1976 and 2001—occupy centre stage in the work place and bring with them a completely different mindset then previous generations of workers

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Overwhelm is my Choice

By totallyaddauthor

We are working on the last stages of four new videos. Follow ups to ADD & Loving It?! Count ‘em, Four!
On Saturday, June 9, Patrick and I will be on the air on the Baltimore PBS station, MPT, for the world premiere of ADD & Mastering It!…

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I Got Rhythms… I Just Never Noticed

By totallyaddauthor

Had an interesting experience a few days back. My energy was up, I was workin’ away, and then my energy flagged a bit… and then went up a bit… and then (sound of slide whistle going down) THUD!
Suddenly, it’s like I’m 88 years old. Falling asleep at 3:00 in the afternoon, while reading. And what was I reading?…