Rebecca Lehmann

So, as I mentioned in my last piece, it's possible to feel motivated to do something and yet somehow still not manage to make the leap from intention to action. This article is focuses on another aspect of our lives that might just need addressing – do you allow yourself to play?

You know what you want to do, but just can’t get started? Do you know how many weeks it took me to get started writing this article? I have had the idea and desire to write about motivation for some time. I have felt inspired by things I had learned and experienced and I wanted to share these things in the hope that it might help someone else, yet somehow I could never quite manage to put my fingers to the keyboard until right now… how ironic! Bricked up doorway, in the Dockyard wall at...

In recent years ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) has been getting a lot more attention, helping to raise awareness about the condition, and what it's like to live with it. More recently it has found itself in the spotlight of controversy, with increasing rates of diagnosis and ongoing debate about what what it is and how it should be understood. For people with ADHD and their families, some of these conversations can feel deeply invalidating — particularly when the very real...