Imagine trying to listen to one radio station while five others are playing at the same time. For many of us with ADHD, this is what busy environments can feel like. ADHD brains often struggle to filter background information. When everything feels equally important, our brain has to work overtime to decide what to prioritise, and it can quickly become overloaded. Sound doesn’t arrive neatly organised. It arrives as a flood. Picture meeting someone in a café. The coffee machine is steaming....

The beginning of a year can be particularly hard for those of us with ADHD. ADHD brains don’t reliably generate motivation on demand, especially when tasks feel abstract, future-focused, or emotionally loaded, which is exactly what “planning a year” tends to be. Executive functions like prioritising, sequencing, time awareness, and task initiation are already effortful, and when energy is low or the nervous system is dysregulated, they become even harder to access. It’s why we might...

Why getting going is harder than it looks. You know the feeling. The task is sitting right in front of you: an email that needs a reply, a report that needs finishing, or even something simple like tidying the kitchen. You want to do it. You’ve probably even thought about doing it several times. But when the moment comes to begin, it’s as if your brain hits a wall. You can’t quite make yourself start, no matter how much you intend to. This struggle to start is one of the most common and...