Action Coaching

Road to Wellbeing...

On my road to wellbeing, to Understanding, Accepting and Embracing my ADD, I was helped by a number of therapists, a clinical psycholoigist, a CBT therapist, an Existential Therapist, a life coach and I even spent a weekend with Anthony Robbins - at the Excel centre along with a thousand others!

Understanding is NOT Enough!

I learnt a lot from these sessions, a lot about myself and how I look at the World. I put a few past issues to bed and I learnt some helpful approaches to mental wellbeing. But there was a problem, a really significant problem for me - it just didn't work! Well let's be fair, the therapy and advice failed to help me affect changes in my life. I understood that exercise would be helpful but didn't do it; I accepted that planning ahead was a positive approach but struggled to plan; I felt motivated but then it faded - it didn't make sense!

If it was so easy why didn't I do it? Why was I so different from other people? If it wasn't about motivation, my psychological problems or past problems then what was holding me back, why didn't therapy work? Then I figured out I had ADHD and it started to make sense.

Action Coaching

For people with ADHD the issue is not of motivation or of understanding, it is an issue of doing. People living with ADD struggle with forgetfulness, planning, activation and in doing what is interesting not what is important.

As an Adult ADHD Coach I focus on the doing, I call this Action Coaching, how to make new behaviours stick, not just for a day or week but for life; how to make routines and habits, how to make tasks more interesting and stimulating; how to remember what to do and how to plan within the constraints of ADHD.

It's not always easy and there is no set formula but focussing on doing is what works best for people with ADHD. I will write more on the principles of Action Coaching soon...