Fledgling Coaching

My own experiences of being a late-diagnosed woman with Autism and ADHD have made me passionate about empowering children and adults who are neurodivergent. Not knowing I was neurodivergent as a child was difficult and led to the development of insecurities as an adult that I've had to work through in my own personal coaching journey. The pieces of the puzzle pieces didn't start to fit together until I was 29. During this time, the pandemic was occurring. All the maladaptive coping strategies I had been using thus far in my life to "get by" no longer worked. I hit rock bottom and was finally forced to get help and seek answers. I was put on ADHD medication (Adderall) for almost a year before I started coaching. The medication helped me organize my mind so I could more clearly see all the "tangles" I had created in my life, but now I had to figure out how to untangle them. But I wasn't sure how to do that; I had spent so much of my life "winging it" and "running away" as soon as things got too hard and complicated. I decided to try hiring an ADHD coach to "try it out." I thought I would do it for a few months and then be ready to move on. Looking back, I was asking her to help me finally be "neurotypical" and get back into the regular "timeline" of life I saw all my friends on. But she has given me so much more than that. My ADHD Coach didn't "fix me." She showed me I didn't need to be fixed, and she showed me who I was. And I've learned to love that person. I can't lie. There are some days I still fight the escapism fantasies. But I've learned that I have the strength to overcome what I once couldn't and that I don't have to "run away” EVER again. I realized I wasn't "broken." Through coaching, I learned how to operate and work with my unique brain. My main goal as a coach now is to help neurodivergent children and adults embrace who they are and realize that they, too, are not broken!