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About ADHD
ADHD is understood as an "Executive Functioning Deficit Disorder."
What is executive functioning?? This term refers to skills and processes that comprise the "management system of our brains." These skills are closely related to self-regulation - and are fundamental in our ability to effectively meet daily responsibilities & future goals. When we are under conditions of acute or chronic stress, these skills can be drastically impaired. Here at Creative Hearts, we emphasize a mind/body approach throughout coaching & treatment - in order to support you to establish this essential balance.
Executive function is judged by the strength of these seven skills:
- Self-awareness: Simply put, this is self-directed attention.
- Inhibition: Also known as self-restraint.
- Non-Verbal Working Memory: The ability to hold things in your mind. Essentially, visual imagery — how well you can picture things mentally.
- Verbal Working Memory: Self-speech, or internal speech. Most people think of this as their “inner monologue.”
- Emotional Self-Regulation: The ability to take the previous four executive functions and use them to manipulate your own emotional state. This means learning to use words, images, and your own self-awareness to process and alter how we feel about things.
- Self-motivation: How well you can motivate yourself to complete a task when there is no immediate external consequence.
- Planning and Problem Solving: Experts sometimes like to think of this as “self-play” — how we play with information in our minds to come up with new ways of doing something. By taking things apart and recombining them in different ways, we’re planning solutions to our problems.