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Article by Jalen Hines Do you remember those New Year’s resolutions you swore you would follow through with—but haven’t thought about since early January? As a result, the pressure of avoidance can quietly build and end up weighing you down while internal shame creeps in. It’s a lot. For those with ADHD, please listen carefully: after weeks of disrupted routine or rest, January shows up uninvited to demand focus, commitment, and fresh starts. The beginning

By Jalen Hines, Mental Health Freelance Writer After a few weeks free from responsibilities like homework and boring lectures, January comes around—and all of a sudden, winter vacation feels like a bad case of the Sunday scaries. You wonder how you’ll readjust to school life. You worry about how stressed you’ll be, and the advice you receive always feels the same. They tell you to try harder, to be more disciplined, and to push through.

This Labor Day weekend, my family celebrated our 74th family reunion. Yes, seventy-four years of food, laughter, storytelling, and enough cousins to fill a football stadium. We’ve got five chapters: Pennsylvania, DC Metro, Virginia, New York, and North Carolina (our origin city).And because it was here in the DC area, I was in host mode. And if you know anything about the DC Metro chapter… we’re a “go big or go home” crew. Cookouts. Banquets.

August 12th All of my blog posts are born from the pulse of my clients’ weekly sessions — the moments when something they say lands so deeply that I can still hear it days later. A few weeks ago, during one of those sessions, a client casually said something that’s been ringing in my ears ever since: “I’ve learned to treat my downtime as protected time.” She said it without fanfare, as if she were stating

Just like medication isn’t a one-and-done solution, coaching requires time, practice, and persistence. And yes—there’s brain science behind that. For ADHDers, change doesn’t come from simply knowing what to do. It comes from repeating strategies enough times for the brain to actually believe they work. 🔁 Repetition is the rewiring.ADHD brains often struggle with something called inconsistent recall—we might know a strategy on Monday, but by Friday it feels brand new again. That’s not laziness.