Windward School: Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Stress Management for ADHD: Creating a Resilient Foundation

Mindfulness and self-compassion practices have been shown to improve our well-being, motivation, and how we treat people around us.   Researchers have demonstrated that from childhood to adulthood, counter to often feared, letting go of perfectionism and self-criticism provides huge benefits in life.  We can build the ability to tackle our challenges giving ourselves the same benefit of the doubt we would give a close friend.   That perspective is even more vital with ADHD, because of chronic struggles with life management, executive function-based, skills that undermine self-confidence and self-image.  Without self-compassion, it becomes that much harder to stay motivated and get a handle on ADHD.  For parents, teens and adults, a healthy dose of self-compassion goes a long way to managing ADHD with more persistence, skill and success.