How Play Can Support Your Executive Functions at Home, Work and in Life
As I look out my window at a gray Portland sky, it seems to mirror how many people are feeling in general these days. After an exhausting 2020, people are still struggling with their executive functions
Continue readingRoutines Lighten the Load for your Brain’s Executive Functioning
Many of my clients, especially those with ADHD, have such a hard time getting started in the mornings. Their internal voice is giving them a huge list of To-Dos, and whatever comes into sight around them
Continue reading6 Categories to Prioritize in 2021 to Support Your Executive Functioning
I have always loved the beginning of a new year. And like many of you, this year I am especially ready to begin afresh! I have my new Seeing My Time planner to support my executive-function-challenged
Continue readingTwo Keys for Happier Holiday Executive Functioning
The holiday season always challenges our brain’s executive functioning. And the stress and uncertainty that 2020 has brought into our lives has only increased the demands pushing many of us to the edge
Continue readingHow to Change your Mindset in 3 Steps
The other day, I realized that I’ve been writing about executive functions for over ten years! What amazes me is that I keep coming up with new topics. For inspiration, I look to my clients, challenges
Continue readingFour Lessons for Executive Functioning: A “Failed” Vacation Story
The multiple stressors of 2020 have been challenging everyone’s executive functioning. So much negative news coupled with personal challenges have overwhelmed our brains. My poor brain was REALLY looking
Continue readingTips for Creating Smooth Transitions When You Struggle with Executive Functions
Do you feel out of sync returning home after a recent vacation? Or perhaps dreading the end of summer as you face heading back to school and work? Transition times like these are hard on our executive
Continue readingTips for Creating Structure in the Fall
Have you turned off or toned down your executive functioning this summer as you searched for “normal?” After our COVID-19 spring, I certainly have. My brain has needed to chill as much as possible.
Continue readingPaper Planners Support our Executive Functions during Hard Times
If there was ever a time to use a paper planner to support executive functioning, this is it. I am specifically referring to the executive functions of planning and prioritization, which I often describe
Continue readingSustainable Change and the Brain
These have been excruciatingly painful times as we face the racial injustices in our country. Our nation is in serious need of healing on so many levels, and yet I have hope for a better tomorrow. How?
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