Operation Beautiful

Do you know how beautiful you are? Caitlin Boyle does. Caitlin Boyle is the catalyst behind Operation Beautiful. Operation Beautiful is the title of Caitlin’s book and the name of her website. But it’s so much more. Operation Beautiful is a movement; a positive, wonderful, inspiring movement that every female in the world needs to […]

ADHD: The Bigger Picture

I’m about to tell you something earth shattering. Are you ready? Are you sure? Your ADHD is affected by almost everything else in your life. What? Yeah, that was it. What do you mean it wasn’t earth shattering? Read it again. It does not say that your ADHD affects almost every part of your life. […]

Depression: Helping Yourself

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I suffer from depression. Depression is one of the things that may accompany ADHD. You see, ADHD never travels alone; it always brings something else along with it. Anxiety, depression, and learning disabilities are just a few. I really believe that […]

ADHD and Your Health

As women with ADHD, it’s easy for us to neglect our health. We forget appointments and important self care, and we procrastinate about going to the doctor. We can’t afford to be this casual about our health. A couple of weeks ago my 22 year old daughter Caitlin found out that the cyst removed from […]

You’ve Got to Move It, Move It

Yesterday my husband Mark taught me a valuable lesson. (Shhh….don’t tell him I said so.) Yesterday Mark had a vacation day and even though it was his vacation, he was gone a good part of the day. He got some work done on the car, ran some errands, and mowed the lawn. He even grilled […]

Getting Unstuck

Have you ever been stuck? Not in a line or a traffic jam or the mud. I mean ADD kind of stuck. You know, when you’ve got a to do list a mile long, the laundry is 12 feet high, and there’s no food in the house and yet you can’t seem to do anything. […]