Module Twelve: Celebrating & Rewriting your ADHD Story
Are you ready to celebrate and rewrite your ADHD story?
All the winners in history are the writers of the stories. Life is full of the stories we tell ourselves so if we can rewrite our own story from one of self-hate, guilt, and lack of integrity to one of grace, humbleness, and gratitude - isn’t that worth celebrating?
This module introduces the possibility of rewriting the story you tell yourself first to yourself and then to others around you. Most of our life is concerned with the interpretation of what happens to us rather than what actually happens to us. Therefore, we can live in a story for a long time and not be aware that living life through that lens creates the world we live in. Is it time to change that perspective and start living a new reality?
Step 1: Watch the recorded coaching module
Just click the play button on the embedded video and take notes.
Step 2: Download the presentation
Rewrite your story to yourself and others.
Step 3: Allocate time to do the work
Now it is time to rewrite your story. Let’s face it, life is too short and by now you might even be bored of your own story of amounting to self-pity, abuse, and despair. Who knows you might even start to love yourself and the diagnosis of ADHD. How will that affect your own self-esteem and those around you?
Coach Advice:
"An ADHD diagnosis can set you free - not because you can blame your deficiencies on it, but because you start to recognise that you are a human being and not a programmed robot! Yes, you can just be you.”
The reality of life is that it is full of broken mirrors, these illusions of what we ought to or should be, developed from the sea of opinions around us. Is it time to not worry about what others think and have the courage to be disliked? You will not be able to please everyone in this world and when we do it is a great cost to our own wellbeing. Start rewriting your story and share it with yourself to start with, then go out to the world if they start to be curious too.
Step 4: Download the templates
In order to help you put some changes in place, templates for rewriting stories are provided so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Of course, there are also many apps that can help along the way too, but the important thing is to be consistent with what works for you. Just download each one and print your own copies. Alternatively, you can create your own in evernote or another note organising app. The distraction test has been the most useful template for our clients and remember there is no right or wrong, just what is.
Celebrating ADHD run weekly group sessions on each module so you might find it useful to join one of those LIVE online webinars. The benefit of this is that you will start to realise that you are not alone in these struggles with the stories we tell ourselves. We want you to start fulfilling your potential and thriving with ADHD so start listening to our Celebrating ADHD podcast to get some inspiration. There is a recommended episode for each module.
Recommended Podcast for this module:
Recommended Meditation for this module:
You have a precious human life, now it is time to be grateful for it. Gratitude meditation is simply the practice of reflecting on the things in our lives we're grateful for. It's about experiencing that feeling of appreciation, whether for a loving family member or friend, a beautiful sunny day, or the pleasure of a good cup of coffee.
This meditation combines mindful awareness of the body, thoughts, and feelings with prompts to reflect on the things in life we may feel grateful for. Research has shown that benefits include an elevated sense of well-being, lower incidences of depression, better sleep, and greater trust. Most often, the rewards are felt virtually immediately, which means that practicing gratitude meditation even once can enhance well-being. Therefore, we suggest you practice this meditation daily for the next 40 days to develop a positive habit and then you will start to see that there is so much to be grateful for.
Step 5: Book a coaching review or take time out to reflect yourself
It is important to monitor and track our progress along the way in order to take charge of your ADHD. For example through taking the time out to do this reflection will highlight what is working for and what is not. This will save time in the long term as why to continue doing something that is not working for you and also if something is working for you, then why not do more of it? Therefore, please take this step as it is essential to the journey. You can even book a review session with a professional ADHD coach at a reduced rate below and then an online form will be sent to you in order to prepare for the session.
Monitor and track your progress.
Now it is time to review your module to see what you have learned and what changes you are putting in place. It is advisable that this is booked with one of our professional ADHD coaches.
“Let’s celebrate together and contribute to a better world. One full of creativity, compassion, wisdom, laughter, exploration, and development.”