Attention Desires Direction Coaching

12/18/2023

04/21/2021

One of the questions that I often get is “How do I manage my ADHD without medication?”

So I did this whole explanation about what medicines. I did the explanation about Diabetes and how med is one component of this to make that chemical connection that the body needs to process the insulin however the other part of diabetes it to learn how to manage your lifestyle and what and how to eat so that your body can best metabolize and how exercise impacts.

I said that meds can make the connection but coaching teaches people the skills so like the medicine can give you the chemical connection to be able to do work but that doesn't help you decide what to prioritize or what to do do when you get stuck and can’t move forward. It creates a whole picture but that decision about meds is not mine, its yours to make but I'm just trying to share information so that you can make this decision from an informed choice.

Medicine is one component of treatment. Coaching is another because it helps you to learn what to do and to learn skills and strategies and the other component is worrying about ADHD, how’s that work, the brain actually capable of, what are some components of ADHD and the executive functions and how it impacts it.

And the other is like how to best manage your ADD, how is your ADD when you don’t sleep well, how is it when eat more proteins versus sweets and carbs.

So in short, some of the choices to treat ADHD without meds would be diet, supplements and coaching.