Clarity Through Chaos

I help people find clarity through chaos by being honest about my own. This blog’s where I drop the filters and tell the truth about ADHD/AuDHD, life, and figuring sh*t out the messy way. If you’ve ever felt like your brain’s wired different and the world doesn’t get it - these posts are for you.
Team Downs for a Good Time at the 2025 Down Syndrome Awareness Walk Rhode Island in Warwick, lined up behind the big event sign.

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12 Oct 2025

The 2025 Down Syndrome Awareness Walk (aka the Buddy Walk) at Belmont Park might’ve been cold and gray, but you wouldn’t have known it by the smiles. Our crew - Team Downs for a Good Time - showed up big again this year to walk for Teighan, my stepdaughter, and for every family out there living and loving life with Down syndrome.

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ADHD and AI rabbit holes visual metaphor of distraction

Newsletter

2 Sep 2025

AI is everywhere. It promises productivity, creativity, and shortcuts to a better life. But if you have ADHD, there’s a catch: AI doesn’t just give you answers - it hands you a stack of shiny new doors to open. That’s where ADHD and AI rabbit holes become a real problem.

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Young adult wearing noise-canceling headphones at a cluttered desk with an August calendar behind them, representing the ADHD fall transition.

Newsletter

5 Aug 2025

You don’t need a comeback story. You just need five minutes of clarity before September shows up with a clipboard and a guilt trip. August is the Sunday of the year - except sweatier and full of half-finished shit giving you side-eye. If you're like me, the ADHD fall transition can feel like a panic attack in slow motion. But the trick isn’t to overhaul your life. It’s just to lighten the load a little before it starts rolling downhill like shit always does.

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Person lying flat on a hardwood floor with an ice pack on their chest during a summer heatwave, surrounded by a fan, water bottle, and notebook - capturing the exhaustion of ADHD summer burnout.

ADHD Life, Newsletter

1 Jul 2025

The Dopamine Drop – July 2025

Summer should feel like a break. But for a lot of us with ADHD, it’s something else entirely: overstimulating, unstructured, and exhausting. If you’re dealing with ADHD summer burnout, you’re not broken - you’re overheating.

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Messy junk drawer representing mental spring cleaning for ADHD with bold text on a beige background.

ADHD Life, Newsletter

3 Jun 2025

The Dopamine Drop – June 2025

If your brain feels like a junk drawer - full of half-finished thoughts, guilt-flavored to-dos, and weird emotional receipts - this one’s for you. This is mental spring cleaning for ADHD minds. Let’s dump the clutter and find some clarity.

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Vintage green sofa and teddy bear on 70s carpet in moody square photo - raised by boomer parents

ADHD Life

25 May 2025

10 Ways To Know You Were Raised By A Boomer

Look, this isn’t a parent-bashing post. I love my parents dearly and I'm sure you do too. It’s simply a pattern-recognition post. But, if you were raised by boomer parents, chances are you’ve internalized a few things that made survival feel more important than self-expression.

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