The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program

Coaching That Revitalizes Your Life

Imagine waking up to the first ring of your alarm clock feeling rested and motivated to get out of bed straight away. In fact, you even have a tingle of excitement about the day ahead. As you pull your covers back and swing your legs out of bed, you have a sense of direction and quiet confidence that you have a handle on this day… and every day.

Don’t Worry if You Aren’t There Yet!

•  Do you feel you are on the sidelines of your life?
•  Or that you are falling behind?
• Do you know you are smart and very talented in parts of your life, yet your ADHD characteristics seem to get in the way of the level of success you know you are capable of?
• Do you know what you need to do, but can’t seem to do it on your own?
• Are you motivated to try something different?

If so, then The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program is for you!

Over the 12 weeks we spend working closely together, I will help you to…

1. Set Clear Goals, so you know where you are heading – even if you stopped setting goals years ago to avoid disappointing yourself.

2. Understand the Passage of Time and develop time management skills to overcome the classic ADHD stumbling blocks such as arriving late, procrastinating and last minute panics before deadlines.

3. Organize your Physical Environment so that it supports you and helps (not hinders) your ADHD symptoms.

4. Identify and Make Lifestyle Changes to help you treat and manage your ADHD symptoms naturally. These steps can be done in addition to ADHD meds, or on their own if you don’t take any medication.

5. Develop Your Communications Skills with the people in  your life. This helps to build stronger relationships and avoids misunderstandings, hurt feelings and fallouts.

6. Become an Expert in How ADHD Shows Up For You. Each person has a unique blend of ADHD characteristics . When you have a deep understanding of your ADHD you feel incredibly empowered. Plus, it allows you to treat and manage your ADHD more effectively than ever before.

7. Shift Your Mindset. A simple mindset shift can make a huge improvement to your day to day performance.

8. A natural side effect to all this is an increase in your confidence and self-esteem. You are finally seeing progress in the areas of your life that you have been wanting for years.  And you start to trust yourself again.

The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program is perfect for you if…

…You are generally a motivated person (we all have our down days).

…You have an open mind and are willing to try new things.

…You’re interested in your health and well-being.

…You’re doing okay in life, and ready to do even better.

…You’re excited for change in your life.

The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program is not for you if…

…You are doing coaching to appease your wife/partner/parents rather than for yourself.

…You have an addiction that you aren’t treating yet.

…You can’t comfortably afford to pay for the coaching. (It is hard to get the best results when you are seriously worried about paying your bills. Pick a free or low cost option and consider coaching at a later date. I will still be here. )

…You enjoy a good moan rather than being proactive.

Why Jacqueline?

I have been a full time ADHD coach for 13 years. During that time I am happy to say that clients get incredible results.

Part of the reason is not so much because of my academic qualifications (if you are interested in those, scroll to the bottom of this page) but because of my personal experience.

I was diagnosed with ‘severe dyslexia’ at the age of 28 years.  Living with an undiagnosed condition for years meant I can relate to my ADHD clients in a very unique way.

I know what it’s like to feel different from the rest of the world. I know the effort that it takes to put on a ‘good front’ for the world to see, only to collapse behind the scenes later.

I shed many tears of frustration trying to do things that other people find easy. 

I struggled with low confidence, shame, and an uneasy feeling that I was going to be ‘found out.’  I also had depression for many years and my mind was constantly worrying that I had forgotten something or done something wrong.

When I was diagnosed with Severe Dyslexia, I made a decision that I would focus on my strengths. That one decisions changed my life. I also created a system I called ‘personal success system.’  It included all the things that I found helped me to feel happy, healthy and be productive.

It worked! My life started to change. The depression lifted and never came back.

Later on when I became a coach, I discovered that my ‘personal success system’ didn’t just help me! It was incredibly effective for adults with ADHD.  This is now the backbone of The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program – the one we will be using to make positive changes in your life.

While dyslexia and ADHD are different conditions (some people have both), I really understand the ADHD brain and mind. So much so, clients say things like, ‘Are you psychic?’ or, ‘It feels like you are in my head right now.’

Having this level of understanding about ADHD means therapists and other ADHD coaches ask me for advice when one of their clients gets stuck and they want help in moving them forward.

It is also why my clients get great results. Having someone that really ‘gets’ you, perhaps for the first time in your life, can be transformative. It can even be a little emotional at first; some people feel overcome and need a tissue.

That deep personal insight provides a solid foundation that we build on with practical tools and systems.

The work we do together is customized and personal to you. We will be using The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program. However, the amount of time we spend on each topic will depend on your current priorities, challenges and stage of life.

Structure is very helpful when you have ADHD and this coaching program helps to create structure in your life. However, I have found that a very rigid curriculum isn’t the most effective way to create and maintain long term positive changes in your life.

For example, it makes sense to talk about time management in a week that you have a deadline crunch. You will feel motivated to implement suggestions and get to enjoy the relief they provide immediately.

In contrast, if we stayed in our coaching bubble and talked about topic X because that was the designated topic that week, our work together would become more theoretical than practical and less effective in making lasting changes.

Here is a list of some common topics I help clients with

Understand and manage your unique form of ADHD

• Get to know how ADHD shows up in your life, and the best ways for you to manage it.
• Incorporate ADHD into your identity in a positive way, rather than feeling resentful that you have ADHD and hating that part of yourself.
• Navigate the process of getting tested for ADHD.
• Find the best treatment for you with professionals in your area, no matter where you live in the world.

Be more at peace with yourself

• Erase any guilt and shame that your ADHD behaviours may have caused you over the years.
• Put an end to chronic boredom.
• Curb your worrying thoughts.
• Help you feel as smart as you really are; no more feeling stupid.
• Learn how to talk kindly (instead of negatively) to yourself.
• Develop trust in yourself to work on projects that are important to you, not just ones that are for other people.

Enhance your ability to get things done

• Learn how to get still and quiet so you can focus.
• Learn how to feel motivated even with boring mundane tasks you don’t like doing.
• End your chronic cycles of procrastination so you no longer feel that you’re sabotaging yourself.
• Reduce your perfectionism tendencies, so they don’t slow you down.

Help you manage time

• Have a realistic idea for how much you can do in a day.
• Develop a realistic idea of how long something takes you to do.
• Know what do to if you think it takes you longer to do something than it takes other people.
• Learn how to work in the flow, instead of a constant battle of resisting and then rushing for a deadline.

Create your optimum environment

• Learn how to create an organized environment no matter how many piles you have, or if you have been messy since grade school.
• Declutter any environment.
• Be able to invite people to your home any time because it looks clean and tidy and not in the least bit like a bomb site.

Make day to day living easier

• Be able to meal plan, grocery shop and cook without feeling anxious and overwhelmed.
• Develop practical (rather than emotional) money management skills so that bills get paid without using your overdraft.
• Enjoy the freedom and the sense of self discipline that having routines and structure gives.

Enrich your life

• Improve your memory.
• Get good at listening, understanding, retaining and the ability to retrieve information.
• Learn ADHD friendly study techniques to get great grades.
• Find a job you love with a boss who values you.
• Develop new friends who you enjoy spending time with.

Whatever is most important to you!

Your priorities, your greatest challenges and your biggest dreams drive the focus of our coaching.

What is included in The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program?

• Ten 60-minute coaching sessions via Skype

Video calls (rather than the telephone), if at all possible, allow me to see you and your facial expressions, notice your body language and feel your energy.

(If you live in Montreal you could come to my office)

• Personalized Email checklist after each coaching session

Within 24 hours of each coaching session I will email you a checklist of the key points we talked about and action steps. Even clients who take notes during the coaching session find these super helpful.

• Unlimited (within reason!) email support. 

This helps you to feel supported throughout the whole coaching program. You can reach out any time you have a victory to share or hit a stumbling block. When I introduced email support in between coaching sessions, client success increased substantially – even with clients who didn’t actually email! Just knowing that they had the option made them feel that I had their back and helped them to take action.

• Unlimited (within reason!) text support

If you prefer texting to email or like a combination of the two, we can keep in touch this way too.

• Signed copy of Untapped Brilliance.

Your very own signed paperback version of Untapped Brilliance, How to Reach your Full Potential As an Adult with ADHD.

This is the book that Gabor Maté M.D described as ‘a little gem’ and Edward Hallowell M.Dsaid was ‘Brilliant! Full of hope and practical wisdom, this book is a treasure.’

Next Step

If you are 99% sure but want to hop on a call together first to check the vibe and ask any questions, you can email me. [email protected]

Or

If you have been in my world for a while and know you want to sign up for The Untapped Brilliance Signature Coaching Program

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