While writing my blog and book, my thoughts kept on swirling around as to what I was going to do next. My goal for both the blog and book has always been to help others who are impacted by ADHD. Whether it’s parents, families, educators, therapists or those that have ADHD. I have spent quite a lot of time reading ADHD publications, and medical journals, and attending webinars. In this process, I have learned about life coaching through an ADHD lens. After doing research on what life coaching is, and what steps I would need to take to become a coach, I decided along with my husband, that becoming an ADHD Life Coach would be a natural fit and the next step in my journey with ADHD. I began an ADHD Life Coaching course through ADDCA (ADD Coaching Academy) last June and I will finish the course work at the beginning of March 2023.
What is coaching and how can it help someone with ADHD? My definition is: Coaching is an ongoing collaborative partnership created to facilitate personal growth and awareness through an ADHD lens, that leads to conscious choice, focused action, and a meaningful rewarding life. The coach/client relationship is built upon unconditional acceptance and a powerful appreciation of the client’s potential, uniqueness, strengths, capabilities, and wholeness.
Coaching is not therapy. The client brings to the coach their challenges, obstacles, projects or anything else that is standing in their way of having a more successful life. Together, the coach and client explore why it’s important, what strengths they have used in the past, how to make a plan and then discover the steps to take to put that plan into action. Because the ADHDer has different brain wiring, the coach helps the client learn about how their brain works differently and the challenges they face that neurotypicals do not.
I am excited about taking this next step in my life. To help others who have been diagnosed with ADHD, who self-identify as an ADHDer, or are impacted by living with someone with ADHD, is my mission. Helping someone understand their neurodivergent brain, and finding tools that will help with a person’s poor executive functioning skills is certainly a goal, but most importantly, helping the client discover their strengths, so that they can improve the quality of their life.
As I complete the coursework, I am now coaching and working on the fifty hours that I need in order to gain full certification. If you or anyone you know might be interested in being coached, or want to know more about what coaching might do for you or them, please contact me.
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