What to do when you can only handle so much? Key strategies for improving planning and prioritizing NOW! – 2023

Do you have so much to accomplish that every task seems equally important and daunting? Many women with ADHD struggle to figure out what the order of doing things should look like and how to get started. There often needs to be a crisis if you don’t do the task right now to get motivated. Even then, you may struggle with overwhelm freeze. In this session, Dr. Sharon Saline offer practical solutions to improving your planning and prioritizing skills. She’ll help you avoid feeling flooded and improve task initiation. Instead of judging yourself negatively and feeling deficient, you will learn how to set realistic, ADHD-friendly goals and apply effective strategies for motivation and persistence. Instead of feeling stuck or needing perfection, you’ll walk away understanding why good enough is a beautiful thing!

About Sharon Saline, Psy.D.

Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD solution card deck specializes in working with children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues. With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/clinician consultant, she guides families and adults towards effective communication, closer connections and greater understanding. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD and neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners. Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their weekly Facebook Live sessions, blogs for PsychologyToday.com, a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. Her writing has been featured in numerous online and print publications including MSN, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Additude Magazine, Psych Central and Inquirer.com.