I am currently working on a book on how to achieve focus in today's busy workplace and in life in general. 

The following 10 tips, each 3 words long, are part of the book. Please let me know if you find them helpful!

1. Do The Impossible. People focus most intently when they take on a challenge, when they are working in an area where they are skilled, but where they are also stretched. Often, amazingly enough, what seemed impossible becomes possible.

2. Trust Your Way. Perhaps the single most cliched song lyric ever, "I did it my way," became so cliched because its message is so powerful. Read More

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MA, Practicing Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Healthy Change Conference - For healthcare professionals who are committed to prevention as well as treatment. Dr. Hallowell Keynote: Now to Prioritize for Improved Efficiency and Happiness.

MI, Leelanau Summer Camp
ADHD Summer camp for children and parents. 

FL, ADDA International Adult ADHD Conference
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MA, Cape Cod Institute
Unwrapping the Gifts: A Strength-Based Approach to ADHD Across the Life Span

London, UK ADDSpark Workshops Dr. Hallowell's workshop features his Strength based approached.

Q: How does becoming a mom impact ADHD challenges? A: To start, not all women feel warm and fuzzy, or have that wonderful "glow" about them during pregnancy. I can personally attest to this, I hated being pregnant. My mother prepared me saying, "I felt the best I've ever felt when I was pregnant." When I felt the worst I had ever felt, I was completely caught off guard. I remember sitting in a prenatal yoga class, listening to the other women gloat and describe how great they felt, as I thought, "I hate being pregnant...what's wrong with me?" The answer is: Nothing. Admitting that you don't like being pregnant, does not mean you are a bad mom. For women with ADHD, pregnancy can be a difficult time......   Read More

Kelly Coppola, LCSW, has ADHD, years of experience working in the field, and recently gave birth to her first child. "Even as a clinician, I never realized how important this topic was, and how limited the resources are. There are tons of books about pregnancy and motherhood, but they have nothing in them on what to do for ADHD. My hope is to shed light on the subject and start a dialogue to educate, support and empower women and moms with ADHD."

Early on in my career, when I was still training to become a psychiatrist, I had the fortune to work with the first adult female I diagnosed with ADHD. She had every indication of an individual with inattentive ADHD: difficulty completing tasks, disorganization, easy distractibility, losing job after job not because she wasn't talented at her work but for careless mistakes and missing deadlines-she even had a brother who was diagnosed with ADHD when they were children, but somehow her diagnosis was missed until she was almost 40. By then, she had endured nearly two decades of disappointment, frustration, and feelings of failure for not being able to "just keep it together" and hold the same job for more than 6 months.




As I reflect on all the occupational as well as psychosocial consequences she experienced as a result of her unidentified and untreated ADHD, I realize that even within my practice alone, her story is not uncommon.  Read More

X-Men - Superheroes that are powerful, potentially dangerous, yet are capable of so much good. This is the dramatic conflict in Marvel comics and the hugely successful Marvel movie franchise.

People with ADHD - Superheroes with brilliant minds, who can fall astray, yet are capable of so much good. This is the dramatic conflict of everyday life for many people with ADHD.

In Marvel's comic series, the X-Men attend the Xavier Institute. It is a training site to help them explore and refine their powers. The Institute helps them accept their differences, bond with similar individuals, and build confidence in themselves. Upon leaving, they are ready to use their strengths to better the outside world.

What if there was such a place for people with ADHD?  

I discovered just such a place called InventiveLabs.
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Brain Training to Address ADHD Symptoms? Dr. Hallowell has been researching the  brain-training system called the Atentiv System for the past year-and-a-half in the Boston Hallowell Center, and are beginning trials in the New York Center. Atentiv uses a headband containing an EEG-based brain-to-computer interface that precisely measures attention levels in real time. Children play the specialized video game on a computer or mobile device, using their attention levels to make their moves (no keyboard is used). Equally important, kids like to play the game. Compliance is rarely a problem. The Atentiv System, developed by Waltham-based Atentiv, Inc. and available to the public in May 2014, takes brain training to a new level.