 Caroline
Maguire is a personal coach specializing in individuals and
children with ADHD and the families who support them.
As a Human Resources Generalist with The Hartford, she provided
employee coaching designed to address workplace and productivity
issues.
Caroline received her undergraduate degree from Trinity
College and she is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in
Special Education at Lesley University.
She is a graduate of the ADD Coach Academy for a certification
in ADD Coaching. This in-depth, 9 month coaching certification
program helped her to understand the unique challenges of
ADD to create customized systems to accommodate individual
clients' learning styles.
Caroline is a CHAAD certified Parent to Parent coach offering
training classes on parenting ADD children.
In addition to her private practice with New England Coaching
Services, Caroline is also on staff at the Hallowell Center
in Sudbury, MA.
My life with ADD by Coach Caroline
Focus is not something that comes easily to me. But people
who meet and work with me never really know the chemistry
that takes place every day in my body. On the outside I may
be carrying on a conversation about plans for the weekend.
But on the inside, I am worrying about a deadline, the laundry,
fitting in a necessary shopping trip and whether or not I
left the stove on. Like most of us with ADD, I can relate to people who cannot
spell but yet passed every spelling bee. I am able to remember
lines from Shakespeare but cannot remember my keys. I have
secret tricks to remember things. If you enter my house there
are sticky pads placed strategically everywhere. Because
a thought once conceived can be gone in an instant.
This propensity to get "off track" and to hop from subject
to subject seemed to be a liability in my high school and
college years.
It was only later that I realized that ADDers often see
the global picture, have creative ideas and see the connections
between ideas in a way that no one else does.
Devising my own compensatory strategies, in addition to
the skills I learned at the ADD Coach Academy, has enabled
me to tame the chaos in my mind. I would like to share
these secrets with you.
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