Author: Maureen

Life is funny. To everything, there is a season. I wanted to be a counselor when I went to college but I couldn't manage the high math required at that time and earned a degree in English and Education. Then, 10 years later I went back to college, took high math/science/calculus/physics and entered a graduate program in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After a year there I realized that as an architect, I would never sleep again and I became a magazine editor for a magazine for architects and engineers. It was fabulous work. When my children were born, I stayed home for a dozen years and then returned to the work world as a church secretary. I failed miserably and was fired! It turns out I had ADHD and LD and wasn't suited to that type of work. 18 years later, I am a therapist and ADHD Coach working with clients just like me. What did I learn along the way? Keep your dream alive. Name and claim your strengths! Do what you love! Find positive support and encouragement. Keep good friends close by. Be emotionally resilient. Keep a Positive Attitude!

Follow Threads of Attention: Find the Creative Beginning

Threads Are Like Thoughts, There’s A Beginning and an End In my Your Attention Coach blog on Energy Transitions, the thread of thought in the article was that for people living with ADHD, even moving from room to room in a home, office, or school is a transition. And transitions are thought disruptive. You don’t […]

Transitions are an ADHD Challenge Right in Your Own Home

Energy Transitions Moving from Room to Room My client remarked in session this week, ‘It’s a transition just for me to turn around and go to the next room!’ ADHD Coaching is the best job. I get to ask questions and I hear the most interesting comments. This client answered a question I hadn’t asked, […]

Summer Bored? Assess Your Access to Summer Success!

What Does Boredom Feel Like? Boredom, part of life with ADHD, is a transient state of consciousness just as attention is a state of consciousness at the moment. Boredom is diabolical for families in the summertime and even vacations have a boredom factor (talk to my children). Do you remember the sense of boredom that […]

Decisions Based on Old Dreams

Are Your Old Dreams Cycling Back? Fresh out of high school, my intention was to become a counselor and work with students. Then I had my first course in statistics and changed majors to drama! Then to English. Then, years later I enrolled in my first master’s program in architecture at Georgia Tech (I had […]

Attention Challenges Among the Indigenous

Do You See Attention in Everyone? by Maureen Nolan on December 6, 2011 I travel on PBS. Occasionally, by car. But usually through the nature and travel channels. Recently I ventured on U-tube to the Sierra Nevada mountains in Colombia, South America. Here, a flourishing First Nation group, the Kogi, live as an uninterrupted lineage […]