About Me

My name is Keri and I have ADHD. I’ve known since 1985, when I was in the third grade. This is when it was called ADD, which we now know as ADHD inattentive type. We knew and understood very little about it, especially the neuroscience behind it. The only treatment we had for ADHD were meds, and there weren’t many. I was put on Ritilan, and it did not agree with my brain or my body. I went untreated from then on. No one knew how to deal with ADHD, and it was a disorder kids had that made them different, slow, other, and bad.

I am now an adult and proud mother of teen twins, one of which has an ADHD diagnosis. Throughout my young adult/adult life I forgot I lived with ADHD and was extremely distraught and feeling defeated time and time again. I was so down on myself that my life was so much more difficult than most around me. My quality of life was very poor at times. I was depressed and anxious, just a mess. There weren’t just difficulties here and there. Everything was difficult all the time. Small things. All the things from articulating my thoughts and feelings, to finishing most anything, to decisions, to concentrating on the things that have to be done, the ones I have no interest in, to poor Executive Functioning, to negative thought patterns, to emotional regulation and difficult relationships. There are more. Like I said, everything. I still grapple with most of this, but I’m more aware of how my ADHD presents itself and have even come to appreciate some aspects of it. It is freeing to embrace this and learn that us ADDers have a way of being in the world that is unique to our neurotypical counterparts. (We actually have superpowers)

If you are here because you need a coach, I would like to walk with you, and support you as we find where your superpowers are hiding out. What’s getting in your way? Let’s dive in.