Evidence-based, shame-free
planners & resources designed for ADHD brains.
In a world where the prevailing medical model defines ADHD only in terms of its deficits, I prefer to begin conversations on ADHD by defining myself by who I am, instead of what I’m not.
GRACE KOELMA, FOUNDER OF FUTURE ADHD
This isn’t to dismiss or ignore the very real challenges that come with being neurodivergent. But I’ve noticed that my biggest ADHD deficit isn’t the sleep deprivation or the procrastination. It’s the shame I’ve carried with me since childhood. Over decades, we have accumulated layered self-beliefs and negative messages that plague us — after a lifetime of feeling misunderstood and simultaneously too much, and not enough. It’s a deep unspoken fear, epitomised in the questions we ask ourselves regularly: ‘What’s wrong with me? Why can't I do basic things others find so easy?’
Know this. There is nothing wrong with you. Your brain makes sense - it just works differently. At Future ADHD, we are striving to make this brain-based difference more widely understood and valued.
We give you practical tools and supports, but also invite you to join our Facebook group or Instagram community, where you can feel less alone, and start to give yourself more compassion. When we feel better about ourselves, amazing things can result.
We believe self-acceptance starts with curiosity and self-understanding. Our team works hard to create innovative and original templates, tools and strategies that are informed by the latest science in ADHD to help you finally understand what's going on instead your brain and learn to support yourself, whatever situation you find yourself in. Living with ADHD (and a complex array of other vulnerablities) in a world that isn’t designed for neurodivergents isn’t easy. No matter what your story is, Future ADHD offers you a safe place where your brain makes sense - a way to re-frame your struggles, unshame your past, and learn to work with your ADHD brain.
About the founder
Hiii, I'm Grace - an educator (B. Ed), founder of Future ADHD and certified breathwork and meditation teacher. After being diagnosed with ADHD in my early 30s, I began a deep-dive into ADHD research that led me to ask WHY productivity and organisation feels like a foreign language for ADHDers. For years I tried other planners, but they always ended up collecting dust on my bedside table. Sound familiar?
I thought I sucked at follow through, but now I know that the ADHD brain approaches productivity and work-life balance differently. So I made a planner that would support that style, with a guilt-free design that allows ADHDers to miss a day, a week or a month without the shame spirals or critical self-talk. Welcome to the Future ADHD Planner, which now has 100K+ users worldwide and is the #1 ADHD planner in the world.
Here's to re-framing the 'shoulds', understanding your brain and finding your distinctive rhythm.
We receive messages on an almost daily basis from people who have found organisation and mental clarity (using the Future ADHD planner) for the first time in their lives. Honestly, I think that's pretty incredible, and this work has motivated me to continue to provide strategies and support for the ADHD community based on neurobiology, polyvagal theory, unconscious beliefs, breathwork, nervous system regulation, meditation and radical acceptance practice, somatic therapies, bilateral stimulation, IFS inner child therapy and much more.
You can read a little more of my journey of finding out about my ADHD here
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