Amy Jones Nutrition

06/16/2026

Yes! I'm with you...

More than once, I left my phone inside the fridge, in my socks drawer, or the medicine cabinet. I have left it at work and in an Uber. I lie around doing nothing all day and procrastinate on schoolwork because of depression, but I get it done at the last minute because of my anxiety.

05/07/2026

Love that for people whose brains cooperate on Sundays.

“Just prep ahead” assumes you had the energy to plan, the focus to shop, the time to cook, and zero other things demanding your nervous system that day.

That’s a lot of assumptions.

If meal prep worked for your ADHD brain, you would already be doing it.

The problem isn’t effort.

It’s that the system was never built for how your brain actually works.

05/07/2026

For a child with ADHD, “clean your room” can be too vague to turn into action.

They may not know if we mean laundry, garbage, dishes, the desk, the floor, or the pile of random things that somehow has no category.

So when they stall, shut down, shove things somewhere weird, or stop halfway through, it’s not laziness.

The instruction may be asking for planning, sorting, sequencing, decision-making, working memory, and emotional regulation all at once.

Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is make the first step visible.

“Dirty clothes in the hamper.”

Then the next step.

“Dishes to the kitchen.”

That’s not doing it for them. That’s helping their brain learn how to enter the task.

We don’t build independence by assuming the steps are obvious. We build it by teaching the steps until they become easier to access.