ADHD Resources, to go along with my Authentic Living Course
Make this course your own.
We won't explore every ADHD trait in enormous detail. There's already a wealth of good information available about what ADHD looks like, and I've included additional resources if you'd like to explore particular areas more deeply.
This course is more interested in what comes next: how we understand ourselves, work with our differences, and build lives that fit us a little better.
Some lessons will probably resonate more strongly than others. That's okay. Follow your curiosity. Spend longer with the things that matter to you, explore the additional resources when they're useful, and skim past what isn't.
It's your course — not another set of rules you have to follow perfectly.
Kind regards, Ben
Module 1
Lesson 1 - 🌿 Why Have I Always Felt Different?
A feeling many adults describe is that other people seemed to understand certain parts of life more naturally than they did. Feeling different isn't itself evidence of ADHD, of course, but years of struggling without understanding why can affect the way we see ourselves.
This video, I believe, adds some subtle variety on the areas I have been exploring, the idea of course is you can go as deep as you wish on these things but this is a good additional starter.
Also a blog I wrote around this: (Read Here)
Thanks, Ben
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Lesson 2 - 🌿 The Unwritten Rules Everyone Else Seems To Know
Have you ever felt as though everyone else was given a rulebook for life that somehow passed you by?​
​For many people with ADHD-style traits, years of missing expectations, struggling with seemingly simple things or being told to “just try harder” can gradually shape the way we see ourselves.
​This resource explores what can happen when confusion becomes self-criticism — and how understanding ourselves differently can begin to loosen some of that shame.
Another professional perspective on how repeated struggles and expectations can contribute to shame and why understanding what sits underneath them can help us develop a more compassionate view of ourselves.​
(this lady mentions
Ladies a lot but I feel
this is universal.)
*Oh and we will be going on to cover many of the other area she covers in later lessons.
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Lesson 3 - 🌿 Why Do I Feel Things So Deeply?
Partially this lesson was to do with dealing with strong emotions (emotional dysregulation and rejection sensory dysporia). I have included a more clinical clip around Emotional Dysregulation, and written a blog around RSD, as I am not sure I agree with all that is currently out there on the subject.
A more clinical perspective, Dr Russell Barkley approaches emotional regulation from a more clinical and scientific perspective than I do in the course. Some of his terminology is quite direct, but I've included this because his work offers useful insight into the research around ADHD and emotional self-regulation.
Here is a blog on Rejection Sensory Dysporia (Here)
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Lesson 4 - 🌿Why Do I Replay Conversations Over And Over?
Sometimes replaying conversations isn't only about what happened, it can become tangled up with guilt, self-criticism and all the things we think we “should” have done differently. This short discussion explores that side of the experience
This is quite a nice video, just explaining in a little detail what is actually going on in the ADHD mind.
My course, is much more to do with how we live authentically with the various traits of ADHD and cope better.
My thought process being there isn't much on this side but there is loads on the actual traits
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Lesson 5 - 🌿Why Do I Care So Much About Fairness?
Caring deeply about fairness may be something you recognise in yourself. Rather than treating it as another universal ADHD trait, we can be curious about why unfairness can feel particularly difficult to let go of.
An interesting video, whilst some of these topics inevitably overlap, I hope they just give you more areas to ponder about, and to learn about your own traits and how to handle them.
Of course, as the course proceeds we work more on these things, at this stage we are just being curious about the traits.
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Lesson 6 - Masking, Fitting In and Exhaustion
Masking can help us fit in, avoid judgement or hide things we've learnt other people may not understand. But continually monitoring and adapting ourselves can also be exhausting. This video explores why people with ADHD may mask, and some of the costs that can come with it.
This is a nice lively, fun video on masking and what is going on.
I mean hopefully it will make a lot of sense to you.
This resource will inevitably expand over time but for now... Thanks Ben