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Understanding ADHD

Learn about adult ADHD, its symptoms, and how it impacts daily life.

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Who We Serve

Do you suffer low self-esteem because you have difficulty maintaining daily responsibilities at school, work, or home? Do you struggle with sitting for long periods or staying on task? Do you sometimes feel as though you are "controlled" by strong waves of emotion or anger?

Maybe you're discovering trouble in your relationships with others due to forgetfulness, time management, impulsiveness, substance use, or general communication issues.

Although it may look different to each and every person, these are just some of the potential symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

ADHD is commonly understood as a deficiency in the way certain neurotransmitters (chemicals in the brain) work, especially dopamine. Due to this, ADHD can often become "hidden" under a variety of other co-occurring mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety, and substance use issues, which may result in symptoms going unnoticed or misdiagnosed.

executive functioning

ADHD is understood as an "Executive Functioning Deficit Disorder." Executive function refers to skills and processes that comprise the "management system of our brains" — fundamental in our ability to effectively meet daily responsibilities and future goals.

At Creative Hearts, we emphasize a mind/body approach throughout coaching to support you in establishing essential balance and lifestyle routines. We use a hands-on approach to highlight the strengths of neurodiversity throughout our work with clients.

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Executive Function Skills

Executive function is judged by the strength of these seven skills:

Self-awareness

Simply put, this is self-directed attention.

Inhibition

Also known as self-restraint.

Non-Verbal Working Memory

The ability to hold things in your mind. Essentially, visual imagery — how well you can picture things mentally.

Verbal Working Memory

Self-speech, or internal speech. Most people think of this as their "inner monologue."

Emotional Self-Regulation

The ability to take the previous four executive functions and use them to manipulate your own emotional state — learning to use words, images, and your own self-awareness to process and alter how we feel about things.

Self-motivation

How well you can motivate yourself to complete a task when there is no immediate external consequence.

Planning and Problem Solving

How we play with information in our minds to come up with new ways of doing something. By taking things apart and recombining them in different ways, we're planning solutions to our problems.

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