go for a walk in the woods, for a soak in the hot tub, or spend a calm moment in meditation or yoga.
Finding New Directions
During child-raising years, a woman with ADHD may have felt unable to pursue her own dreams. But now, as time and opportunity open up, she may be overwhelmed and directionless. How do I get started? Where should I begin?
Like other women, many women with ADHD have put hopes or ambitions on hold while raising a family, planning to put more energy into their own projects when they have more time. But when a woman has ADHD, she faces an extra challenge in pursuing a new direction. The skills a woman needs to follow through on her hopes and dreams are often the very skills that are most challenging.
Take time to follow that lifelong goal or dream. Revisit initial plans before children. Write that book you’ve always dreamed of, or apply for the graduate program you’ve postponed for years. Slowly but surely rescind yourself from responding to the needs, requests, or ideas of others.
Support and Structure To Make Changes
To make your dreams come true, you need support and structure. Structure can come in the form of a partner, someone to share the dream, to be accountable to, someone to plan with, someone to brainstorm with. Structure can also come in the form of a job. For example, if a woman’s ultimate dream is to start her own enterprise, she may begin by working for someone from whom she can learn the skills she needs to strike out on her own.
Groups can also be important sources of structure and support. You can join a group of women with similar goals, stay-at-home moms returning to the workplace, women who hope to