Laurie Dupar
PMHNP, RN, PCC
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Laurie Dupar Owner Coaching for ADHD and IACTCenter Expert
Laurie Dupar Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Coaching ADHD and Getting it Done!
- Best Sellers
- 365+1 Ways to Succeed with ADHD, 365 Ways to Succeed with ADHD, More ways to Succeed with ADHD, Inspirational Ways to Succeed with ADHD, Wacky Ways to Succeed with ADHD
- Career Focus
- Coach, Coach Trainer and Mentor, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur
- Affiliation
- ACO, CHADD, ICF
Laurie Dupar, PMHNP, RN, PCC helps people of all ages with ADD/ADHD understand how their brains work so they can reach their goals. She works with children, parents and adults to overcome their ADHD challenges, feel more confident, and experience success. A trained Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Laurie has been an ADHD Coach since 2002 and is a recognized leader in the field, speaking nationally and globally on coaching and ADHD. Laurie is a credential Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF) who also mentors and trains emerging ADHD coaches to pass their credentialing with confidence and create a successful, sustainable coaching business. In 2015, Laurie founded her own coach training program - International ADHD Coach Training Center (IACTCenter) - which trains and mentors ADHD coaches to build profitable and sustainable coaching business worldwide.
Laurie is passionate about spreading awareness of ADHD. Along with her work serving on the board of multiple ADHD Organizations, she is the creator and editor of The ADHD Awareness Book Project Series, which asked over 150 ADHD colleagues – coaches, psychiatrists, teachers – the question: “What is the most valuable tip or strategy for succeeding with ADHD?” Written in the popular bite-sized format, each of the five books, 365 Ways to Succeed with ADHD, 365+1 Ways to Succeed with ADHD and More Ways to Succeed with ADHD, Inspirational Ways to Succeed with ADHD and Wacky Ways to Succeed with ADHD - have been #1 bestsellers on Amazon. She’s also the author of the popular books Brain Surfing and 31 Other Awesome Qualities of ADHD and Unlock the Secrets to Your Entrepreneurial Brain Style
Find out more about Laurie’s upcoming programs and events at www.coachingforadhd.com and www.iactcenter.com.
Laurie Dupar Books
365+1 Ways to Succeed with ADHD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615675247/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0615675247&linkCode=as2&tag=cofoad-20
365 Ways to Succeed with ADHD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615522149/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0615522149&linkCode=as2&tag=cofoad-20
Brain Surfing & 31 Other Awesome Qualities of ADHD: Real life stories and examples about the positive attributes of living with ADHD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615522130/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0615522130&linkCode=as2&tag=cofoad-20
Unlock The Secrets to your Entrepreneurial Brain Style
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615612164/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0615612164&linkCode=as2&tag=cofoad-20
More Ways to Succeed with ADHD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615831648/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0615831648&linkCode=as2&tag=cofoad-20&linkId=NKIARO6ZCKJITUX4
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Celebrate the Positive Qualities of ADHD
Life with ADHD is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week-adventure!! If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with ADHD, then you know how challenging it can be at times. Unfortunately, most of our focus is on the “negative aspects and problems” of ADHD and rarely are the strengths or positive qualities of ADHD appreciated or celebrated!!
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“Natural” Doesn’t Come in a Plastic Bottle
- “ADHD medications aren’t natural.” - “I only want to use natural ways to manage my ADHD symptoms.” - “I don’t want to put anything unnatural into my body.” These are just some of the familiar comments I hear during or following one of my presentations about ADHD medications. In our world where more and more things come out of a bag or a factory, it makes sense that we are trying to balance this with as much “natural” in our lives as possible.
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Avoiding ADHD Insanity
Albert Einstein once said…”Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Sound familiar? For instance, have you been trying the same strategies to get out the door on time, but constantly arrive late? Are you struggling to organize your day at work or home only to lose (errr…forget) important pieces of the puzzle? Do you find yourself losing your temper with your children, spouse or other important people in your life and end the day feeling frustrated? And at the end of it all, do you feel just a little bit like you are going crazy?
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***Minimizing Your Symptoms of ADD: Which Comes First…Exercise, Diet or Sleep?
Which is more important to help manage your symptoms of ADD…exercise, diet or sleep? Ideally we are fueling our bodies with nutritious food, moving our bodies with regular exercise and getting the consistent sleep we need to feel rested, alert and focused to decrease our symptoms of ADD. But reality is…we are missing at least one, if not all of these essential management strategies. If you could focus on one key strategy to make the biggest difference in experiencing relief of your symptoms of ADD, which would it be?
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Happiness and ADHD
Recently I’ve noticed that being “happy” or striving for “happiness” is a major topic of many conversations. We seem to live in a world where we are inundated by information about being happy. Pursuing it could literally be a full time job! Being someone who has struggled with depression, it has made me wonder what would happen if we were happy all the time, whether unhappiness has a purpose, and if happiness is really the point. So what would happen if we were happy all the time?
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What Zone Are You In?
Ahhh…the comfort zone. That comfy familiar place where we feel safe. Here we can kick back, relax and pat ourselves on the back. Livin’ seems easy…but there is an underlying restlessness as if something is missing. Is this the comfort zone or…are we “zoning out”?
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***I Don’t Believe in ADHD
Incredible as it sounds, I still am amazed at how often I hear people say “I don’t believe in ADHD.” You probably have heard it too. And if you are like me, the moment those words come out of their mouth, every hair raises on the back of your neck, the fire starts to chu in the pit of your stomach and your mind feels like it is going to explode. No matter how many times it happens, no matter how many times I hear the words “I don’t believe in ADHD” I am dumbfounded as to how it is even possible to live on this planet and doubt the reality of ADHD.
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How to Get Through the ADHD Medication Maze
- Have you ever had to go a day or more without your prescription medication? - Do you know the physical discomfort and anxiousness of waiting to get the medication reordered? - Have you spent hours on the phone with the doctor’s office, insurance company or pharmacy waiting for your ADHD medications to be filled? If so, you, like me, have been trapped in the medication maze.
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It's Normal with ADHD To...
Here at Coaching for ADHD I love getting emails from you! Especially when you ask questions and want more understanding or clarification about something ADHD related. Recently I received an email from a father asking a question about his son’s behavior. He wanted to know if it was “normal” for someone with ADHD to be able to focus on some things and not be able to focus on other things. Great question, right? Isn’t ADHD an attention deficit issue? How can an ADHD child spend hours building towers on Minecraft, but can only attend to drawing a picture for five minutes?
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ADHD Challenges: Mind Going Blank?
Have you ever sat in front of the computer screen or pad of paper, wishing the words to magically come forth from your fingertips so you could finally meet your deadline? Do you hope that you won’t have to go through the chaos and stress of it being late or not completed at all? Yet no matter how long you sit there, or stare out the window, or surf the internet or hit your head on the desk…nothing happens. It’s not that you aren’t motivated or that it’s not important to you, but literally it’s like you have no idea of where to start or what words to use…you’re blank.
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Frustrated wtih ADHD
Having ADHD can be frustrating. Merely struggling with compensating for the challenges so they don’t interfere with daily functioning and learning new ways to do things can be taxing. There is a constant internal battle of symptom and strategy waging inside yourself when you are coping with ADHD. In fact, a lot about ADHD is exhausting, however, putting up with or hearing from people who misunderstand or have misconceptions about ADHD has to top the list. Recently I was on a social chat forum online when the question was asked:
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ADHD Medication Vacation?
Summertime is just around the corner, and Lynn is wondering what to do about her son’s ADHD meds. “He really needs them for school, and the medication has calmed him down a lot, but some people have told me they take their kids off medication in the summer. I‘m not sure what to do!”
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