How to make your ADHD work for you and not against you
Faigy Liebermann
Certified ADHD Coach. Author. Course Creator. ADHD Wife & Mum 5 ADHD Children. Property Investor
Today is the Jewish festival of Tu Bishvat! Judith Levitan shares with us this little insight into the little holiday.
Tu Bishvat or the New Year for trees is a minor festival in the Jewish calendar but nonetheless an important festival that celebrates “The New Year for Trees”.
This year it falls from sunset on the 27th January through to sunset on the 28th January.
It is customary to celebrate Tu Bishvat by eating fruit, especially those which grow in Israel such as dates, grapes & figs.
I suppose traditionally, it was celebrated to acknowledge the beginning of spring and the seasonal cycle of the trees, but in modern times it has become a focal point for thinking about ways to help
environmental issues and serves as a reminder of our responsibility for nature and many Jewish people celebrate by planting a tree.
The above excerpt was taken from myjewishlearning.com
The ADHD way to do TuBeshvat
For years I used to feel intense pressure and stress around this happy festival.
At the time I didnt realise it, but the many details that I had to go through really taxed my working memory, and this affected my emotions of course.
Every year I pushed through and somehow managed to prepare beautiful fruit dishes, as is the custom. The year that I trained as an ADHD coach I learned the truth about ADHD, and I realised that I need to stop trying so hard to improve what I am not good at, and I need to focus more on what I am good at!
I now have more energy, and more focus to be a better mum to my five ADHD children. I save myself the wasted emotional energy that comes from battling my negative emotions. I have more head space and more heart space to focus on moving my business forward...
For the last five years I order a lovely fruit platter for Tu BeShvat. I have had to work a lot on banishing the guilt, ( a so normal ADHD feeling in us ADHD women). I now view this as my gift to ME!!!
The platter just arrived, and it's gorgeous!
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