End the Cycle of Giving Too Much, People Pleasing and Takers in Friendship – 2023

As a woman with ADHD, many of us are conditioned to believe that friendship struggles and social challenges are our fault. This experience is not without merit. It’s true that you may have struggled most of your life to make, and keep, good friends. Whether it’s out of fear of losing someone, or because you so deeply want to be accepted that many ADHD women struggle with codependency, over-giving, unrealistic relationship expectations and feeling like you have to change your very self to be liked and loved. In this session you will take a look at the patterns and beliefs you have grown used to after years of living with ADHD, likely undiagnosed and over-doing and overcompensating to make and keep friends. That can end now. And I’ll show you how it’s done.

About Caroline Maguire, M. ED, ACCG, PCC

Caroline Maguire, M.Ed., ACCG, PCC, is the author of Why Will No One Play With Me?, the winner of 3 awards including the Best Parenting and Family Book 2020 as awarded by American Book Fest. She is the founder of a comprehensive SEL training methodology for parents, clinicians and academic professionals on how to cultivate emotional regulation, emotional intelligence, social-awareness and responsible decision-making skills. She is a prolific media contributor, columnist and sought-after lecturer and workshop facilitator on various topics related to social, emotional and behavioral learning.

Caroline is the founder and director of The Fundamentals of ADHD Coaching for Families training curriculum at ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) – a Coach Training program accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). After several years as a highly respected social skills clinician at the Hallowell Center Boston MetroWest, Ms. Maguire formed her own private practice.

She is a permanent columnist on social skills in CHADD’s Attention Magazine, a favored contributor to U.S. News & World Report, Mind Body Green, Salon, Huffington Post, Today Parenting, ADDitude and WebMD.

Originally from Cape Cod she now lives with her husband and two children in Boston MetroWest.