Oh summer! I just returned from an EFS retreat at the beautiful Oregon Coast with my administrative team, Kathleen and Veronica. This was our first reunion since we were all fully vaccinated, ...

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EFS News: Retreat Time for Thinking and Dreaming

I have been thinking a lot lately about the executive functions required for the management of a home, especially related to home projects. When parents join their students for a Seeing My ...

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10 Tips to Support the Brain During a Home Project

As part of my online training course for professionals, the Teaching the Seeing My Time Program, I offer two live Q&A sessions. I love this opportunity to address participants' questions about teaching ...

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Tips for Recovering the Executive Function Skill of Future Thinking

At 67, I tell my new Seeing My Time clients that the reason I keep working is that I’m having too much fun teaching the course to stop! It is such a ...

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Have Hope: Executive Function Support Does Work

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 ...

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How Play Can Support Your Executive Functions at Home, Work and in Life

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 ...

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Routines Lighten the Load for your Brain’s 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 ...

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6 Categories to Prioritize to Support Your 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 ...

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Two Keys for Happier Holiday Executive Functioning

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 ...

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How to Change your Mindset in 3 Steps

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 forward to my ...

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Four Lessons for Executive Functioning: A “Failed” Vacation Story

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 ...

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Tips for Creating Smooth Transitions When You Struggle with Executive Functions

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 ...

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Tips for Creating Structure in the Fall

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 ...

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Paper Planners Support our Executive Functions during Hard Times

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 ...

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Sustainable Change and the Brain

Are you feeling more demands on your executive functions these days? You are not alone.Adjusting to sheltering in place for over a month has stretched us all thin. We try to stay ...

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How I’m Using Tiny Habits to Support My Executive Functions