We survived spring break last week in Texas! 🥳 For mompreneurs, no school means completely different for our business…and sanity. If you’re one of them, you know. 😆 When is your kiddos’ spring break? Let us know so we can send you more love and support that week. I know I needed it last week, and Justin’s delicious laughter when we spent time together at a bubble fest last week was exactly what helped . 🥰

I don’t know if anyone else has had this… but you know when you’ve got loads going on, like life stuff, big changes, loads to sort out… and you’re sat there thinking “I should be working”… but your head is just all over the place… that was me last week I was getting so frustrated with myself because I wanted to be working, but I wasn’t actually doing much, and my head just felt like a complete mess… I was literally standing in the shower every day trying to clear my head because that’s the only place I could actually think straight for a minute… and then I’d try and do a bit of work… and it made me feel worse because I’d look at everything that needed doing and just think… where do I even start… and I realised something that I think a lot of us do… we try and do EVERYTHING at once and then end up doing nothing properly and then we make that mean something about us when actually… it’s just too much all at once so now I’m just breaking everything right down into really small things, like proper micro things, instead of trying to tackle the whole lot in one go and already it feels lighter still a lot going on… but at least I can actually move again instead of just standing there overthinking everything does anyone else get like this when life and business collide a bit…

Hi thriving friends! Happy Monday! 🌿 Quick check-in — where are you right now? A. 🧠 Still figuring out my ADHD and what actually works for my brain B. 📋 I know what I want to do… but I can't seem to get myself to DO it C. 💡 I have a business idea or I've started one, but I keep getting stuck D. 🚀 I'm building something real and I need support to keep executing Drop your letter in the comments. No wrong answers — just honest ones. 💚 P.S. I intentionally didn't want to use the poll option.

Hi, my Thriving members! You've likely heard me say this like a broken record... Celebrate your wins - big and small! To encourage our ADHD brains to do that... I created this new category dedicated to our "Wins!" So when you write a post about your wins, you can select it so we can easily find it when we filter posts for "wins!" _________________________________________ Why is it important to celebrate wins? Brain plasticity (neuroplasticity) --> Neuroplasticity is our brain's ability to learn and change our behaviors. This is backed by thousands of scientific studies. By acknowledging our wins (big and small)... We create new brain connections telling our brains and body: "What we just did was great! It made me feel good. I want to do more of that. Let's do that again!" So, the very FIRST step in creating new brain connections of positive habits and feelings is to ***acknowledge*** our wins!!! Yes, it's that simple. But everyone else makes it complicated. 🤪 _________________________________________ I'll start! My win for today is: I made a pot of coffee this morning!!! 🥳 We used to have a Keurig that made one cup of coffee...you know, the fast and easy kind. But it felt wasteful for the plastic Keurig cups. So we decided to switch to a coffee machine that makes more coffee using ground coffee. BUT...I didn't anticipate the friction it caused my ADHD brain! Ever since we bought that coffee machine, my ADHD brain has been avoiding using it. So, my husband ends up making coffee all the time. When I stopped to figure out what was causing my friction, it was because using that coffee machine was a lot for my ADHD brain's executive function. What do I mean? Because there were too many steps to perform to make a pot of coffee. Yes, they're simple steps, but for our ADHD brains, that alone causes overwhelm. And because I haven't paused and taken the time to understand what's happening with me, my ADHD brain was suffering from overwhelm whenever I saw that empty coffee machine.

It has been a rough couple of days for my family. My husband and I tested positive for Covid yesterday. My mom who lives with us got it first after coming back from a trip last week. My mom is better now (thankfully), but my husband and I just got it. I wish our symptoms were mild, but both of us feel weak, coughing, and muscle aches. Both our kiddos don't have it or any symptoms. I’m so thankful for that. My youngest, Justin (6), has asthma so he’s high risk. He actually started wheezing two weeks ago and has been taking his inhaler. That’s why my husband and I are staying quarantined in our separate rooms as soon as we got sick. And when we absolutely need to go out of our rooms, we wear masks and gloves, wash hands frequently and any other safety precautions I could think of. My eldest, Luke (14), has been taking great care of Justin since yesterday. He’s such a kind big brother. And Justin is listening to him. They’re very close. They ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner together. They played together. And Luke got Justin ready for bed and put him to sleep. Knowing how much they take care of each other helps me heal faster. We’ve been Facetime-ing and checking in with each other. We’re all giving each other grace that things won’t be exactly the way we might want them to be…and that’s okay. We’re making it work. This is us this summer at a water park. I’m so grateful we have such amazing and kind-hearted kids. 💕