Ariane Benefit, M.S.Ed.
Life Coach, ADD / ADHD Coach, Lotus Bridge, LLC and
Neat & Simple Living ™ Organizing Coach,
Professional Organizer (NJ, NYC area) and Author

NSGCD Level 2 Specialist in
ADD Organizing and Chronic Disorganization
See my Bio and Credentials on my Lotus Bridge website

Helping people live happier, healthier, less stressful lives is my mission in life. My specialties include working with people who have highly creative personality types (right brain dominant), have ADD / ADHD, and anyone who has problems with time management, attending to routine tasks, prioritizing, disorganization and excessive clutter.

Having ADHD (or a creative personality type with right brain preferences that prefers to "keep options open") can turn completing the most mundane of daily tasks into a living nightmare. Boredom with repetitive routines, indecision, high sensitivity and reactivity, distractibility, and frequently changing your mind are hallmark traits of both ADD and High Creativity.

These traits, left unattended, often lead to low self-esteem, depression, stress disorders, addictions, overspending, poor boundaries, chronic fatigue, perfectionism, procrastination, disorganization, chronic overwhelm, excessive clutter, and traumatized attachment to things and information over people (AKA hoarding behavior), just to name a few.

The keys to overcoming these debilitating patterns and regaining your energy for life include:

• Understanding how ADD, creative personality type, and right brain / left brain integrations affect your ability to act on your intentions
• Developing the thinking skills required to more easily make decisions, plan, and prioritize
• Developing your ability to establish personal boundaries and say no when needed
• Identifying patterns of distraction, impulsivity, procrastination and paralyzing inner conflict, and improve your ability to manage them
• Discovering how to process your resistance and motivate yourself to do things you don't like doing (like organizing : )
• Organizing your life and environment using simple, easy to maintain strategies that work with your unique style and personality preferences - and that are easy for you to maintain

If you often feel like you have flashes of brilliance and high potential, but are also often "stuck" and unable to make progress, or if you feel that you know what to do, but just can't make yourself do it, you have come to the right place. Welcome to the "tribe." You are not alone!

What you are going through is not just "procrastination." It's a physical and chemical difference in the way your brain works that can lead to chronic, cyclical overwhelm, disorganization and "stuckness." It can be caused by ADD, past emotional trauma, abuse, depression, brain injury, and more. Whatever the cause, when you don't understand what's happening to you, and you don't know what to do about it, it is incredibly frustrating and painful. Well-meaning people often give you advice and tips that just don't work for you and that makes you feel even worse. It's a vicious cycle. If you often feel like the part of you that "wants to do things" is completely disconnected from the part of you that "does things", you know exactly what I mean.

As a Life coach, I listen to your needs with a holistic perspective. Whether your challenge is ADD or not, if you struggle with time management, getting daily tasks done, taking care of yourself, compulsive overspending, disorganization, excessive clutter, inconsistent energy, procrastination, low self-worth, it is affecting your whole life. It may be showing in struggles or tension at work, in your marriage, with your kids. You may have difficulty with saying no, setting boundaries, high sensitivity, difficulty following through on commitments, listening, and/or communicating. As a life coach, I help you identify the true source of the tension and develop the skills needed to create more peace, satisfaction, and confidence. My background includes teaching people how to buld emotional intelligence skills, communication and listening skills, relationship skills, dealing with difficult people and much more.

As an ADD ADHD and Creative Personality Coach, I help you understand how brain chemistry affects your ability to act on your intentions and how to "reintegrate" your left / right brain (AKA your "logical planner"and your "emotional brain.") I also help you understand why much of the conventional wisdom out there simply does not apply to you. Messages like "try harder" or "set up a routine" or "just follow this system" simply don't work in the long term for people like us! But there is hope. When you learn how to appreciate the way your brain works, stand up for your right to be different, prioritize without getting overwhelmed by decision stress, and focus on getting consistent results using systems you design for yourself that are tailored to your needs and preferences, your life will be transformed.

As an Organizing coach and professional organizer, I teach you how to assess your own needs, and set up ultra-simple systems that inspire you and make organizing a source of stress relief - not agony - so that you can more easily manage your life, home, actions, finances, work, and paper. I support you in making the tough decisions needed to make room for what you really want in life -- like a home you enjoy being in, a job or career you love, relationships that nourish you, better health, less stress, and feeling safe to be your authentic self in the world.

My own journey to a simpler, less stressful, more authentic life that works with my creative personality type and ADHD, has given me 50 years of education, experience and training to draw upon to coach you to develop the cognitive, emotional, and practicals you need to succeed.

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