Accept & Redirect: Mindfulness for ADHD
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"For us, ADHD folks, broken focus can linger beyond the limits of our neurotypical friends and family. It literally takes more effort for us to direct the current of emotions and to return our focus to what we intended to do. Be it savoring a novel, or organizing the kitchen. And depending on our own internal habits of thought, seasoned in a life of criticism and invalidation, we may be vulnerable to yielding to our own worst version of ourselves with harsh and critical thoughts about ourselves. And as we know, all of this turmoil eats up our precious time and sets us up for yet another "failure" to stew in. We lose time not only to the usual detail-related mistakes of daily life, but we also lose time to emotional suffering.."
"For us, ADHD folks, broken focus can linger beyond the limits of our neurotypical friends and family. It literally takes more effort for us to direct the current of emotions and to return our focus to what we intended to do. Be it savoring a novel, or organizing the kitchen. And depending on our own internal habits of thought, seasoned in a life of criticism and invalidation, we may be vulnerable to yielding to our own worst version of ourselves with harsh and critical thoughts about ourselves. And as we know, all of this turmoil eats up our precious time and sets us up for yet another "failure" to stew in. We lose time not only to the usual detail-related mistakes of daily life, but we also lose time to emotional suffering.."
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