Hi, I’m Leanne, and welcome!
I live with mental health concerns and ADHD (diagnosed when I was 40) and I parent with them, which can be, both, challenging and rewarding.
I advocate for parents with mental health concerns in order to help create a better understanding of the struggles that we face, especially when society is still misinformed about this large, but often ignored segment of our population, and do my best to offer support and insight from my lived-experience.
I also work to create awareness about the “invisible” disability, ADHD, and its related conditions, to educate people on its complex symptoms; it is not just physical hyperactivity that occurs only in childhood.
My goal is to strengthen recognition and inclusivity to stop the ignorance and judgement that leads to the rejection and exclusion of those of us who live with this neurodevelopmental condition (our brains developed differently – our traits and behaviour are not often a choice).
I was very happy to be invited, representing ParentalMental.com, to speak at the 2021 Children’s Mental Health Ontario Virtual Conference about Facilitating Positive Interdependence between parents and children when it… When I’m depressed, I definitely want to wallow in it. The thought of getting up to do something is so exhausting, that just doing nothing seems a better option. This… “People with lived experience of mental health concerns can offer significant value, and provide equity to any group or organization that communicates with the public.” Recently, I was invited to… Divisiveness is what makes this world go ’round. We all need something to be against in order to strengthen our position “for”. As we move into another month of COVID-19… So many adults don’t get the opportunity to talk to their parents about their relationship with each other, the good times, but also the bad, often because the parent has… I wrote this poem at the beginning of the isolation, when toilet paper was incredibly scarce, and the panic was at one of its highest peaks. “Hoarding is a disorder… We all deserve a chance to be heard. I have ADHD and, as a result, my emotional regulation – the ability to control the expression of my emotions – is… She wanted to climb on the hill; The hill that was made of ice and dirty snow. So I said no. You could slip and fall and hit your head…. This article has been reprinted with permission from LadyAngrr.com This piece is being presented using a basic timeline. My unedited thoughts below reflect my feelings at the times when… I have a child under age 10. As a result, we have been through countless insulated water bottles for kids, all of which have a design flaw: their open/close spout… I wrote this poem amidst my breakdown, when I’d find myself spending significant periods of time in front of my bathroom mirror, hunting for a small hair to pull out…Parental Mental Health – Facilitating Positive Interdependence
Reverse Engineer Your Life
Integrating Appropriate Representations of People with Mental Health Concerns into (Society/Research/Information)
Is Mandatory Mask-Wearing Masking Our Human Rights?
My Mother’s Story
Should I Take Three? Hoarding in The Time of COVID-19.
Tell Your Story – A Worksheet To Manage Anger & Anxiety
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Too Young For Therapy
Fitting In – How a shirt taught me a valuable life lesson.
Hair, there, everywhere.
