Jennifer Raphael, RN, CPO® Coach ADHD Organizer & Productivity Specialist | Getting to the heart of ADHD is a lived experience for me.
I'm an advocate of neurodiversity & believe it is possible to thrive with personalized tools & support. I am a professional organizer, a trained coach, & worked in health care for many years. I bring a lifetime of experience, a sense of humor, and a passion for empowering individuals & families navigating ADHD & other brain-based conditions, life transitions, & the challenges of aging. I feel pass
04/20/2023
Depression: When It's More Than a Symptom Of ADHD Depressed but unsure if it's the result of your ADHD or something more? Learn what sets reactive and major depression apart, including family history and how quickly your mood shifts, as well as which treatment is best for you.
10/28/2022
What to do If You Can't Get Your ADHD Meds? Right now there is a nationwide Adderall shortage affecting many people. So what are you supposed to do if you can't get your ADHD meds? Lets explore that.Su...
08/21/2022
Insights into why organizing is challenging for people with ADHD and a few nuggets to consider. Thank you Susan Lasky.
Love It, Use It, or Lose It "The only time I 'sort of' clean up is when I invite people over. This doesn't happen often these days, because I've run out of closet space and other hiding places for all the junk." Don't hide your clutter or feel guilty. Find hoarding help in these 13 ADHD-friendly rules to organize your home for...
08/14/2022
How Trauma and Chronic Stress Affect Developing Brains Trauma alters the developing brain, triggering behavioral and mental health issues. Under prolonged exposure to stress, resources are diverted from the “thinking” part of the brain to its survival centers. Here, learn how to best support stressed children and teens who have been exposed to traum...
07/31/2022
Secrets of Your ADHD Brain Most people are neurologically equipped to determine what's important and get motivated to do it, even when it doesn't interest them. Then there are the rest of us, who have attention deficit — ADHD or ADD — and the brain that goes along with it.
06/05/2022
Carrots vs. Sticks: The Science of Reward and Punishment for Children with ADHD Neurology shows that the ADHD brain is particularly sensitive to positive reinforcement and to punishment — insights that should influence parenting and teaching strategies.
06/03/2022
A few tips for effective communication with your ADHD-wired kids.
How ADHD Impacts Your Child’s Communication Skills – and 11 Ways to Help ADHD directly affects virtually all aspects of communication. Here, learn more about the link, and how to improve communication skills for kids with ADHD.
05/11/2022
The Power of Your Story – ADDA – Attention Deficit Disorder Association The Power of Your Story Posted by Lisa Willis Categories Acceptance and Change, News, News, Stories Date May 10, 2022 Comments 0 comment by Lisa Willis There is power in your journey. Your life, your adventures along the road, how you cope, how you succeed, even how you fail but pick yourself up aga...
03/25/2022
One degree of change repeated over time makes sustainable change possible.
How to Stick to Habits and Routines Without Falling Off! Click my link https://go.mycopilot.com/howtoadhd to get 14 days FREE with your expert fitness and health coach!Sticking to your routines and making new habit...
03/05/2022
Words matter. What we say to ourselves matters.
“Has ADHD Warped Your Sense of Self? It’s Time to Reclaim Your Story — and Power.” “Being repeatedly misunderstood causes people with ADHD to deeply misunderstand themselves and their situations. Feeling deficient and mistrusting yourself from an early age makes it extraordinarily difficult to properly evaluate yourself as an adult. These misunderstandings can have rough consequ...
2022 Registration – Behavior Summit for Neurodiverse Families with ADHD, Autism, Anxiety – The Behavior Revolution — Helping Parents Understand that Kids Do Well If They Can Watch our free masterclass to understand your child’s behavior and learn how to improve it compassionately and successfully, while honoring their neurodiversity.
02/03/2022
"It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.
You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything."
—David Cain
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