The Indigo Diaries

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling in the third and long-lasting series: "The World Through an Our Eyes.."

This week Natasha is back with an ‘Open Mind Sessions’ where she will be joined by guest speakers and authors Madeline and Jonathan who recently wrote a book about procrastination for individuals with ADHD.

Madeline has spent the past decade working in a multidisciplinary practice in Sydney called Mindcare Centre. Here is where her interest in ADHD was sparked and she enjoys working in collaboration with other medical professionals, especially Psychiatrists. Prior to this she spent 3 years working in East London for a CBT service that specialised in treating Trauma in adults. Before moving to the UK, Madeline worked for Vision Australia. This allowed her to develop skills with children, adolescents and adults, in the assessment and treatment of behavioural problems and mental health difficulties in the vision impaired population.

Jonathan is an ADHD & Executive Function Coach and director of Connect ADHD Coaching, providing services internationally from Brisbane, Australia. His background includes psychiatric services and as Scientific Advisor for ADHD in the pharmaceutical industry. Jonathan trained as a an ADHD coach through the US and offers individual and group programs for people with ADHD. Jonathan is a regular speaker at national ADHD meetings in Australian and US. He is a board member of ADDA and a published author.

Recently, they co-authored a book called ‘Decoding Doing’ . This book has been a long time in the making and presents a model aimed at helping people procrastinate less and achieve more despite having ADHD.

In this episode, they both discuss what came to write the book, the main models from it, and ways to manage and find solutions for one of the biggest ADHD challenges Procrastination. In the second half, we touch upon how the book has been transformed into a group and conference at ADDA.

Come, Learn, listen, and experience the world through not her eyes, our eyes!

The Indigo Diaries

Ps-

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Jonathan’s Details:

Website: https://www.connectadhd.com/about-connect-adhd-coaching/

Madeline’s Details:

Website: https://www.madelineoreillyclinicalpsychology.com/

Book: ‘Decoding Doing- ADHD Solutions to Procrastination’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decoding-Doing-ADHD-Solutions-Procrastination-ebook/dp/B09M7WY6MH

Dear Diary,   

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling in the third and long-lasting series: "The World Through an Our Eyes.."  

This week Natasha is back with an ‘Open Mind Sessions’ where she will be joined by guest speaker, Renata Fester. Renata is a Career Coach who lives in South Africa and works with clients from around the world. She loves good coffee and better company and is a sucker for good dessert. Renata has spent almost 15 years figuring out what she wanted to be when she grew up. After making three career transitions herself from engineering to education and then into corporate life, she has learnt a few things along the way.  She has learnt that careers and career development can be overwhelming BUT with the right support can also be enjoyable and sustainable. Today she shares her wealth of knowledge and expertise with others who find themselves also trying to figure out what their next step is in their career journey. 

In this episode, Renata’s goal is to help people make informed decisions about their careers and about their career development. She looks at this through the Lens of ADHD and believes that Ideal Career happen by design, and it all starts with YOU.

Come, Learn, listen, and experience the world through not her eyes, our eyes! 

 The Indigo Diaries  

 Ps- If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below: 

Email: [email protected]  

Website: www.indigo-hub.com FB Page:

Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/) 

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/) 

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)    

Renata’s Details:  

Website: career-coach.co.za/ 

Email: [email protected] 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renata-career-coach

S3, Episode 7: " Why ADHDers are susceptible to burnout and how to protect yourself.…." By Natasha Hickling & Anna Granta  

Dear Diary,  

 Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling in the third and long-lasting series: "The World Through an Our Eyes.."   

This week Natasha is back with an ‘Open Mind Sessions’ where she will be joined by guest speaker, Anna Granta. Anna has ADHD and dyslexia and helps Neurodivergent adults to remove roadblocks in their professional and personal lives to have more success with less stress. After recovering from several bouts of burnout, Anna Granta now coaches neurodivergent leaders (i.e. ADHD, ASD, Dyslexia etc) working with the whole person, with a focus on achieving greater impact at work. Her clients become more confident, more skilled at working with others, and better able to work on tasks that are most impactful. 

 Discover what Anna's experiences of burnout taught her about herself. Learn how going to university, having a child, and doing a job she believed in all triggered episodes of burnout and how they are common causes of burnout in ADHDers. Anna has now built a life that protects her from burnout, and you can too.  

Come, Learn, listen, and experience the world through not her eyes, our eyes! 

The Indigo Diaries   

Ps-   If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:  

Email: [email protected]  

Website: www.indigo-hub.com 

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)  

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)  

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)   

Anna’s Details:  

Website: https://www.grantacoaching.com/ 

Email: [email protected] 

Fb: https://www.facebook.com/grantacoaching 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/annagranta

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling in the third and long-lasting series: "The World Through an Our Eyes.."

This week Natasha is back with an "Open Mind Sessions where she will discuss shifting perspectives from what we do to who we are. She outlines how ADHD can impact this and that when we look inside, we can see what we need to move forward with the What. She gives some reflection questions to ask yourself when discovering who lives within us all.

Come, Learn, listen, and experience the world through not her eyes, our eyes!

The Indigo Diaries

Ps-

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling in the third and long-lasting series: "The World Through an Our Eyes.."

This week Natasha is back with a "Top I Session" where she gives the listeners Top I Tips on how to find and utilize their strengths to help with the ADHD Challenges; as every individual with ADHD is unique, she gives adaptable and unique ways that everyone can use to find their muscles that are within.

Come, Learn, listen, and experience the world through not her eyes, our eyes!

The Indigo Diaries

Ps-

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Resources:

VIA Character Strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/

Strengths Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nbiSuLAZrZutVHiB9YrGq8Z4w0AlLP7v/view?usp=sharing

Indie’s Diaries Blog Post: https://www.indigo-hub.com/post/uncovering-the-hidden-strengths-of-adhd

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling as she interviews another guest, Helen Pengelly in the new diary entry of the series.

Helen Pengelly grew up in West London and has lived on the south coast in West Sussex since 1986 apart from a few years living abroad in Mallorca and Qatar in the 90s. She has had a varied career as a youth leader, barmaid, bookkeeper, EFL teacher, maths teacher, and running a business selling gluten-free food. She now works as a spiritual coach and mentor after discovering meditation in 2006, which saved her life. She found she had ADHD in June 2021, a month before her 58th birthday, and now wants to support women who have been diagnosed later in life and guide them on their healing journey.

Helen is on a mission to help people find happiness from within and promote a more ethical and sustainable lifestyle by learning to be kind and compassionate to all. She believes we should all be working together to raise the planet’s consciousness and make the world a better place for all.

In this episode, Helen shares her story of living so many years undiagnosed, the ability to heal herself and the world, and her late knowledge of ADHD that opened many doors.

We hope you enjoy another story and hope you find a relation in it in some way.

Have a great week ahead!

Until next time...

The Indigo Diaries

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Helen’s Details:

Website: www.healwithhelen.com

Follow Helen on YouTube

Dear Diary,   

 Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." 

Join host Natasha Hickling as she interviews another guest, the amazing Sherl Randolph in the new diary entry of the series.  

The Podcast Host of "Rising Above The Stigma" Podcast, Author, Comedian, Inspirational/Motivational Speaker, and Founder of D.I.V.A. International, LLC. She empowers women, especially Single Women & Single Mothers to live a life full of Purpose, Hope, Encouragement, Laughter, and remember the treasures they have within, so they may boldly walk out their God-given destiny. She has also recently launched her Devotional Journal, "Morning, Conversations With God-My Soul Thirsts"! One of the mantras that she loves to live by, "Remember, the Treasure is oh the inside of YOU"! 

 In this Episode, Sherl shares with us her truly inspiring story of how her ADHD has impacted her life and how she unlocked her own treasures.  

 We hope you enjoy another story and hope you find a relation in it in some way.  

Have a great week ahead! 

Until next time...

 The Indigo Diaries

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:  

Email: [email protected]  

Website: www.indigo-hub.com 

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/) 

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/) 

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)   

Sherl’s Details: 

Website: www.sherlthepearl.com

 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherlthePearl/

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling as she interviews another guest, a fellow coach Christine Stevens-Gopsill, in the new diary entry of the series.

Christine is a newly diagnosed but not newly aware ADHD’er. She is an entrepreneur and has recently launched a coaching business called Indigo NLP Coaching that provides support to ADHD adults. She loves working with neuro-diverse adults as she has a keen understanding and lived experience of the journeys that life as an adult with ADHD provides. With 20+ years' experience working in post-secondary education, Christine’s core competencies are in the areas of supporting adult learners in academic coaching, career exploration and program development.

She’s a dog mom, cat mom, and a humans’ mom and a new gramma! As a true ADHD’er dopamine hits are her favourite and she loves dog walking, home reno, and making her kitchen really messy by cooking and baking. She’s creative, has a fun sense of humour, works hard at being a good listener, and loves knowing people's stories. In this episode, Christine shares her story of living years with undiagnosed ADHD despite always being there and how she uses her love of people to help inspire her clients today.

We hope you enjoy another inspiring story and hope you find a relation in it in some way.

Have a great week ahead!

Until next time...

The Indigo Diaries

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Christines’s Details:

Website: https://indigonlpcoach.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinetheindigonlpcoach/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indigonlpcoaching/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/indigonlpcoaching/?hl=en

Dear Diary,    

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling as she interviews another guest, a fellow Brit Bebe Barry, in the new diary entry of the series.  

Bebe grew up in the heart of London, above a pub in the centre of Borough Market. Initially a shy kid but never without an instrument, pub life soon had her bursting out of her shell, even playing her mini glockenspiel in front of the locals some days after school. Bebe has written music since being a teenager but was always hesitant to put her experiences into words. However, after being diagnosed with PTSD and ADHD as an adult, she found that she suddenly had a lot to say and songwriting was the way she could say it. Bebe has always been a pop kid with a love for rock and roll; David Bowie being her strongest influence since she was ten. Despite hitting low moments over the years, she has remained an optimist, turning her darkest moments into soaring anthems that make you want to dance. 

In this episode, she talks about her story, her diagnosis and how her openness gave her the life she wanted whilst living with ADHD & PTSD . We hope you enjoy another inspiring story and hope you find a relation in it in some way.  

Have a great week ahead! 

Until next time...  

The Indigo Diaries 

 If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:  

Email: [email protected]   

Website: www.indigo-hub.com  

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)   

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)   

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)  

Bebe's Details: 

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Bebebarry 

Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/bebethebarry/?hl=en

Dear Diary,

Welcome to "The Indigo Diaries." Join host Natasha Hickling as she interviews another guest, The Abstract Genius Simran Deol, in the new diary entry of the series.

Simran Deol is a university student working to empower the Neurodiverse people of the world. Being undiagnosed with ADHD and Specific Learning Disorder until almost 20 years old, Simran had to fight for her education at every opportunity.

Now she has launched her own Organization “The Abstract Genius” which raises awareness and helps empower Neurodiverse people, by creating a community as well as offer many programs to help people unlock their potential. Simran’s vision for “The Abstract Genius” is to give the people a voice to celebrate their achievements and help them through their adversity. She believes that there needs to be more inclusive education at schools and that educators need to acknowledge the different types of intelligence in the world.

She has been on a journey to make a difference in the lives of her fellow Neurodiverse people, she is writing books, starting movements, speaking, and educating people on what it means to be different. Simran was accepted to participate in the Harvard Women in Educational Leadership program, where she shared her story and got to learn how to fight for justice in the education system. She is a global speaker, advocate, and leader. In this episode, she will talk to us about her story, late diagnosis and how she beat the odds

We hope you enjoy another inspiring story and hope you find a relation in it in some way.

Have a great week ahead!

Until next time...

The Indigo Diaries

If you would like any additional information regarding our support group, coaching or are interested in the world hearing your story in series 1, please see the links below:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.indigo-hub.com

FB Page: Indigo Hub (https://www.facebook.com/indigohubadhd/)

Instagram: @indigohubadhd (https://www.instagram.com/indigohubadhd/)

FB: Indigo- ADHD Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/15239...)

Simran’s Details:

My Website is:  www.theabstractgenius.com

My Instagram is: @theabstract.genius

My LinkedIn is:  linkedin.com/in/simran-deol28