Santa Cruz ADHD

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

🧠 ADHD brains often work better with other people in the room.
🤝 Join us for FREE ADHD Coworking this Wednesday and get real work done in real time.

✔️ Easier to start
✔️ Less procrastination
✔️ Focused work blocks
✔️ Quiet accountability

👇Wednesday | 11am–1pm PT
👇Free to join.

🔗 adhdcollective.com/adhd-coworking-session-online/

06/02/2026

Got ADHD? Are you female, middle-aged, or a member of the sandwich generation—raising your own kids while also caring for aging parents? In this episode of At

06/02/2026

The emotional pain of rejection sensitive dysphoria is real and agonizing. But your responses to rejection follow a pattern. You’ll have to start new patterns – or ways of thinking and behaving – to reduce the effect that rejection has on your ADHD brain.
👉 https://www.additudemag.com/how-to-deal-with-rejection-rsd-adhd/

06/01/2026

🎙️ TADD Talks Podcast | New Episode!

Raise your hand if your to-do list is currently judging you. ✋

This week, Certified ADHD Coach Ryan Mayer is tackling the chaos head-on with Task Triage: How to Stop Spinning and Start Winning — a practical, no-fluff approach to finally figuring out what to do first (and actually doing it).

~9 minutes. Zero spinning. Maximum winning. 🏆

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit https://add.org/podcast/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

The theme of our June decluttering month is a visible win for every day. Use the daily ideas to declutter different areas of your home, and see an instant difference. Especially if you’re hosting a lot over summer, or you don’t want to be doing hours of decluttering in the heat, this month of decluttering really can go a long way.

05/30/2026

There was a day - probably many years ago - when you stopped reading just because it felt good.

You didn't notice it happen. That's the thing about losing yourself slowly. It doesn't announce itself. There's no single moment you can point to and say: that's when it began. It was just Tuesday, then Thursday, then somehow a year had passed and you hadn't sat with a book for pleasure in months. Hadn't danced in your kitchen. Hadn't left the house in something that made you feel like you.

The things people stop doing for themselves tend to share a quality. They are the things that served no one else. They didn't help the household run. They didn't earn anything. They didn't contribute to a role anyone needed filling. So they were easy to put down.

Here are some of the quietest things many people stop doing - and why naming them matters.

Reading for Pleasure

Not to improve. Not to optimize. Just to disappear into something for a while. When this goes, so does a part of the mind that craves narrative, stillness, and imagination. The self that wanted to get lost somewhere beautiful.

Moving Your Body

Before exercise became about calories and guilt. When it was just walking because you wanted air. Dancing because a song asked you to. Moving because it felt like something rather than because it erased something.

Getting Dressed for Yourself

Not for the office. Not for the school run. Not for anyone else's eyes. Just because you liked how the blue scarf felt. Because wearing something bright changed your mood before the day even began.

Sitting in Silence

Without a screen nearby. Without productivity lurking at the edges. Just quiet. Many people, when they try this again after years away from it, find they have forgotten how it feels. They last about three minutes before reaching for something to fill the space.

Saying No Simply

Without three paragraphs of explanation. Without pre-apologizing. Just no, clearly and without shame. This is one of the first things to go, and often the hardest to reclaim.

Doing Nothing

Without having to earn it first. Without checking whether you deserve the rest. Without the quiet guilt that follows you into the hour you finally stopped.

This isn't about returning to who you were. That person existed in a different chapter with different demands. It's about recognizing that even now - even in this season of life - something small can be reclaimed. One quiet thing at a time.

Not all at once.

Not dramatically.

Just one small thing, given back to yourself.

Because somewhere in all the giving, you forgot that you were allowed to keep something...

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

Feeling stuck, shut down, overwhelmed, or emotionally blocked? For adults with ADHD, the first feeling that shows up — overwhelm, dread, frustration, avoidan...