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The avoidance cycle, brought to you by ADHD

This past week in therapy, my therapist and I were talking about intrusive thoughts, anxiety, worry, and adhd. I explained to her an example of something challenging that I had been dealing with that morning.

My lovely therapist said, “Brigitte, that’s textbook ADHD.” She then opened up the DSM and read me the characteristics of ADHD.

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transitions & self-love

Is the time change affecting you at all? It seems to be really messing with my finely-tuned system this year. In lieu of that and many other transitions happening right now, I'm going to leave you with a little journaling brain dump. Raw and unedited. And I feel it's exactly as it wants to be put out into the world. And if you're in need of some love, grace, and compassion, hopefully this will send some your way.

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How tennis has impacted my self-compassion

So I started looking at every terrible ball I hit as just practice, and practice makes better. I learned from all the awful shots I hit, and each time, I picked up a little more... concepts made more sense in my head, my body felt more comfortable swinging the racket, I started to feel like things were making sense. And most of all, I was focusing on having fun with my partner, instead of focusing on feeling like a shitty tennis player.

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