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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 11:25 AM
Q: Dear Dr. Nowell. I really enjoyed your talk last Tuesday. I did think about the journaling practice you recommended, but I have seem to misplaced the template handout your provided. Can you please e-mail me another copy?
A: Yup (email sent). Also, for anyone else who might be interested in starting a regular journaling practice, here's a linkto a journaling template which includes some of the best practices from Positive Psychology research. Practices like kindness, goal-setting and optimism, and gratitude. |
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Posted on Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:46 PM
In the past several weeks I've received inquiries from two high school students preparing reports on the theme of procrastination. And even though you might have heard me suggest at ADHD workshopsthat " there's no such thing as procrastination," I actually do think that making the right choice (moment by moment by moment....) about exactly how we use our time is a really big deal. Here are the students' really good questions, along with my responses.
Q: Do you think that procrastination is truly an issue and that it may be
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Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:50 AM
 If you are asking a student with
ADHD to do a task which is harder than a three out of ten on a ten-point scale
(where one is “ super easy” and ten is “ the most difficult thing in the world”),
you might be asking too much. Many
times, our frustrations with students or family with executive challenges are related directly to our expectations that
they complete a task which is simply harder than a three on a ten-point scale.
Don't Expect Me To Do What's Typical If I'm Not "Typical" |
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Posted on Monday, March 04, 2013 10:26 AM
Alphabetically, these flavors of happy include(allow yourself to consider the nuances of each type of happiness and just try not to smile and relax a bit - I can't do it!)
Amused, Anticipation, Awestruck, Balanced, Blessed, Celebrate, Cheerful, Confident, Content, Enthusiasm, Helpful, Honorable, Humor, Inspired, Joyful, Kindness, Lively, Love, Mellow, Motivated, Nostalgic, Optimistic, Peaceful, Playful, Relieve, Satisfaction, Social, Spiritual, Thankful
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Posted on Friday, March 01, 2013 10:41 AM
Educator and consultant Joe Kelly blogged recently at the Vancouver Sunabout his experiences with specific acts of kindness over the month of February.
He relates his personal kindness-practice experience to researchon the benefits of kindness, for example by Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky.
One of the best features of his post was this image I've cut and paste below - it's his day by day "random acts of kindness" last month. Great ideas in there!
If you're interested in starting a kindness practice yourself, you'll find some great ideas and support at the "Random Acts of Kindness" website |
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Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:40 PM
When I heard a few weeks that there was a new Alanis Morissette single, I remembered that she's a new mom and thought to myself, "Oh, no, she'll have lost her edge; she'll have some treacly song about her baby."
Turns out I was only kinda right but at the same time very wrong. The song "Guardian"isfrom the perspective of a new parent weighing the responsibilities of being a "watchwoman" and "first warden." But just as importantly, the lyrics are about an adult's decision to be her |
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Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:33 PM
The patients in these studies were being treated for diabetes related illnesses and the authors made use of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (scroll down to page 1566 to see the items).
Also published yesterday was a post at Forbes regarding the role of empathy in trusting relationships. The author references Simon Baron-Cohen's work on empathy (see left), defining empathy as requiring "double minded" attentional focus. |
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:01 PM
Well ... not so fast. As pediatrician Perri Klass pointed out in a New York Times piecelast week, this concern that the next generation is damaged or lazy seems to be a recurring theme.
It might help to look back to a 12-year longitudinal investigation published in 2011 which investigated the relationship of various parenting styles with various developmental trajectories. |
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Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:49 AM
This summer I've had the pleasure of guesting on Attention Talk Radio not once but three times. In these three conversations with Jeff Copper and Kirsten Milliken I found that we were able to quickly dig down into some of the most important information for anyone living with ADHD or anyone who parents or loves someone with attentional/organizational challenges.
Here are links to those podcasty conversations:
HEDYDT? Check out this Attention Talk Radio interview and learn how to do intimate, person-specific "strategic behavioral inquiry" (By the way, that mnemonic stands for " |
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Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:14 AM
Remember how we all laughed a couple weeks ago when two major networks, eager to report the Supreme Court's decision regarding health care reform, got it completely wrong? We could just imagine some eager beaver sitting at the 'puter impulsively hitting the wrong button.
Equally funny/not-funny (because it can have real social and health and financial consequences) are the ways in whichyou and Iact impulsively.
This past Sunday New York Times' "Gray Matter" column featured |
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