Exciting and Affordable: Our New Mini Coaching Bundles
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- Written by: Dave Pughe-Parry
Bundles Of Goodness Picture by Tresia Hoban PexelsGiven that ADHD is present in anything between one-in-ten and one-in-five people, we have always tried to make our ADHD Coaching programs available to all who want and need them.
Over the 25 years since we started coaching we have had two primary goals; the material must be valuable and it must be affordable. The definition of being ‟affordable” will of course vary widely from client to client.
We have now added one more exciting way to get the valuable coaching every ADDer needs - Mini Coaching Bundles at a discount!
The first bundle is available for booking now. The rest will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
To meet our ‟affordable” goal we have offered the following facilities for our individual coaching:-
- Generous payment terms, from 3 months to 12 months
- Zero interest
- When signing onto a coaching program, the full R2 000 paid for our Impairments Assessment is credited to the coaching total
- Access to me during the coaching period was increased to 24/7 within reason
- When needed, 2 coaching sessions per module is available, ensuring full value for each module
Are you ready to escape the pit?
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry
Introducing the first of our mini ADHD coaching bundles aimed primarily at small groups.
Mom used to say “speaking to one’s self is a sign of intelligence, you are the only person who gives you the answer you want.”
Sadly, it is probably the worst advice she ever gave me. When the thoughts in your head get tired of spinning in your brain they escape through your mouth and you start to bang the dishes harder in the sink as you mumble to yourself, or curse other drivers while driving yourself into a frenzy.
Everything that has gone wrong in your life, the loved ones who died and you are grieving, those you can’t forgive even 10+ years later, the job you were unjustly fired from - you get the idea.
These stories all have different amounts of truth but the longer we let them govern our lives, the angrier and more miserable we become. We cannot move forward and find pleasure in anything.
Bundle 1 - Escape the Pit Modules
- Self Talk
- Forgiveness
- Grieving
- Bonus - 30 minute individual session to discuss anything you aren’t comfortable talking about in the group.
My Four ADHD Websites
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- Written by: Dave Pughe-Parry
There is a lot of information about ADHD - the most common neurological condition on the planet.
After 25 years my ADHD information collection is significant. The vast amount of data is of little use to you, my client, if you can't find what you want and need to know.
This year, 2026, sees the launch of the fourth website in my collection so that everyone will easily be able to find out about this convoluted disorder.
This website – DavePugheParry-dot-com – is the first port-of-call for new visitors. Here you will find:
- My ADHD stories range from as long ago as 25 years ago up to the present.
- Stories from my wife Pat, who specialises in coaching women
- Stories from invited guests, especially our growing team of Guru's
- The Latest ADHD World news and
- Some local ADHD news
The second site - Living ADDventure - will have all the facts about ADHD - the condition, no opinions at all. Most of this knowledge is peer reviewed
The third site - Living ADDventure Training - is where you find our growing range of online training courses, and soon, all of our coaching modules
The fourth site - Creative Change - will have only the tools and techniques to support you as you learn about ADHD and implement the coaching techniques into your life. For example tools like:-
- Thinking correctly
- Making valid decisions
- Mind-mapping
- Overcoming poor sleep patterns
- Curbing impulsivity
- Managing Sexuality in ADHD
- Creating flexible structure... and more
Coffee Is Good For You
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- Written by: Dave Pughe-Parry
A Red-Headed Piper - Photo by Clement ProustThere are studies that prove that everything is both good and bad for you! Dare I say it, it depends who is paying the piper who is playing for her or his supper!
It seems to me that all you have to do is dream up something you would like to see, or better still, something that fits your view of your world, ask a few people some questions you have carefully created so that your point will be proven, check the figures, and make a huge statement.
As ADDers we are bombarded all the time by people telling us what we mustn't eat or drink, and rather less frequently, what we must eat and drink.
Have you noticed how the things that are "good" for us are so-called healthy things like raw carrots and broccoli, while the "bad" things for us are the nice things we love, like chocolate, and coffee.
My large collection of more than 13 000 files of ADHD documents, books, digital audio and video files is a place where I can spend hours happily reading, watching and listening to all things ADHD.
Delving into this trove of information requires sustenance and as I am a coffee lover of note, I often quaff up to 6 cups a day! I was very happy to find a piece in the 2011 edition of the Huffington Post by Delia Lloyd that one of our favourite so-called sins was in fact good for you!
At last, I thought, I don't have be defensive about drinking the king of beverages, coffee, without some rabid health fanatic giving me the evil eye - or worse, trying to convince me earnestly that I should rather drink green tea, or some other foul tasting poison.
Ms Lloyd lists 5 reasons from a study to prove her point.
Drink coffee for depression
Women won't be as depressed if they drink coffee - a whole 20% less depressed. This follows another study that shows the more coffee you drink, the less likely you are to commit to suicide!
Men who drink more than 6 cups of coffee per day will have 60% less chance of contracting "lethal prostate cancer." This is a revolutionary statement, as drinking that many cups of coffee per day was absolutely certain to send you post-haste into an early grave, according to earlier studies.
Coffee provides for a 39% reduction in you getting head and/or neck cancers - provided you drink at least 4 cups per day.
A study on mice show that if we drink 5 cups of coffee per day, it's unlikely that we will get Alzheimers disease. Scientists are so excited about this, that if the study proves their point, coffee - or caffeine - will be used as an effective treatment against the dreaded disease.
Her last point is that coffee provides protection against diabetes, the Type 2 version. I am an insulin-dependent diabetic, I drink at least 4 cups of coffee per day, which clearly didn't provide any protection for me.
The point of this is, should we believe any of these studies? Following them leads to a life of misery having to eat foods that if prepared properly - as opposed to raw - would be marginally palatable.
Food is not an ADHD Medicine - Photo by Tony LeongAs ADDers we are bombarded by people - well meaning people - who honestly believe that a neurological condition like ADHD can be cured by eating less of one thing, and more of something else.
There is even a study that says that the much vaunted multivitamins will actually decrease your life span!
Life is simply too short to pay heed to all these scientific studies.
I say, simply follow your nose, eat moderately of anything that takes your fancy, exercise by walking around enough to burn off the calories, laugh a lot, and love all day.
On a personal note I admit to not eating brocolli and kale easily, and cannot be near a house where tripe is being cooked, and tinned asparagas turns my stomach back-to-front!
Image Top: Clement Proust Image Middle: Unknown Image Bottom: Tony Leong
Print Edition is long since sold out, the revised pdf version is available now at only R75