Living in the Wild with ADHD- Cindy North

Living in the Wild with ADHD- Cindy North Exploring ADHD through neuroscience, lived experience, and real life stories.

Do you see it? In the middle of the Sydney airport, front and center is a publication, “Understanding ADHD.” What I appr...
05/30/2026

Do you see it?

In the middle of the Sydney airport, front and center is a publication, “Understanding ADHD.”

What I appreciated even more is I am not someone to pull a magazine with an important topic to the front for all to see. This was front and center all on its own.

The article “understanding yourself” was well done in my quick skim before boarding my flight home.

Living in the wild… ADHD style!

I didn’t think the book would ever be about me.I thought I was writing about ADHD. About neuroscience. About patterns, b...
05/26/2026

I didn’t think the book would ever be about me.

I thought I was writing about ADHD. About neuroscience. About patterns, behaviors, overwhelm, resilience, and the invisible weight so many people carry quietly.

But somewhere along the way, I realized you cannot write honestly about understanding the brain without eventually meeting myself on the page.

Not the polished version.
Not the coach version.
Not the version that already knows how the story resolves.

The real one. The one that was once this goofy girl who begged for glasses.

The one who adapted.
Who masked.
Who kept moving.
Who misunderstood parts of herself for years while trying so hard to help everyone else understand.

These goofy glasses would be the sign that I was smart.

That has been the unexpected vulnerability of this process. Realizing the book was not just something I was creating.

It was also something uncovering me. And in all her glory I see my stripes and feel my heart to empower differently-wired brains. This goofy girl is ready to let out her story. ❤️

Living In The Wild: Embracing Your Stripes With ADHD will be released on October 1st. Join the waitlist and be the first to read snippets. 📖 👇 sign up is in the comments

Warmly,
C North
~choosing to see north 💫

There’s something powerful that happens when we step outside our normal environment. Different scenery. Different rhythm...
05/25/2026

There’s something powerful that happens when we step outside our normal environment. Different scenery. Different rhythms. Different conversations. The brain wakes up in new ways.

Being in Australia has reminded me how much creativity and perspective are sparked when we step outside the patterns we live inside every day. The familiar fades into the background over time. Our brains become efficient. Predictive. Automatic. But novelty interrupts autopilot.

I’ve had some incredible conversations while traveling here. One that stuck with me happened during a bird tour when I shared that I’m an ADHD life coach. Our guide shared that he was ADHD and told me he did not discover it until his son was diagnosed in college. He talked about how hard it had been at times raising him and trying to understand what was happening beneath the surface. Today, with support, his son is majoring in Physics and Electrical Engineering at University of Oxford.

I found myself sitting there quietly taking that in.

Not because the story is rare in the ADHD world, but because so many people still underestimate what is possible when understanding, support, self-awareness, and the right environment begin to come together.

What has surprised me most on this trip is how curious people have been about my work. Conversations that begin casually have quickly turned into meaningful discussions about ADHD, neuroscience, human behavior, overwhelm, creativity, and the ways people learn to navigate life differently.

And honestly, I think there’s something about stepping outside your normal life that creates space for those conversations to happen.

Novelty changes the brain. New environments increase attention, curiosity, observation, and connection making. We begin noticing details we normally filter out. We ask different questions. We think differently because we are experiencing differently.

Maybe creativity is not always about forcing new ideas.

Maybe sometimes creativity begins the moment we step outside the familiar long enough to see ourselves and the world with fresh eyes.

I have spent so much time writing about stripes that now I see them everywhere.Even here in Australia, I noticed stripes...
05/19/2026

I have spent so much time writing about stripes that now I see them everywhere.

Even here in Australia, I noticed stripes at the villa and smiled. It’s in the artwork on the wall.

ADHD brains are especially powerful at associative thinking and pattern recognition. We connect ideas, emotions, metaphors, and meaning rapidly. Once the concept of “stripes” became connected to identity, survival, adaptation, beauty, difference, and belonging for me, my brain started weaving it into the world around me.

It makes me think about how often we overlook the power of what we repeatedly focus on.

Because eventually, we start seeing it everywhere.

Maybe that is true for possibility.

Writing has been an incredible unfolding. And, it’s taken years. What I didn’t know then was I had to grow beyond my edg...
05/16/2026

Writing has been an incredible unfolding. And, it’s taken years. What I didn’t know then was I had to grow beyond my edge points for me to step into this work.

Writing started when I was very young. At first I couldn’t do it hardly at all. Maybe dyslexia, who knows, I just learned slow. Surprisingly I won a writing contest writing about my Mom’s best mashed potatoes winning $10.

Fats forward to high school. My hard years. Again, writing brought me great joy. It’s where I could use words to see beyond my world. It was the class I actually loved. Mr. Knutson junior year. He lit this flame.

So why not graduate from high school and get certified as a children’s writer. Yep, my parents supported that endeavor. What I didn’t know was that red pen would crush my soul. I lacked the skill to perserveer the critic. That was back when I printed my work and sent it to the editor and got it back in the mail by snail mail. I didn’t get published. I still have that red-marked children’s story in a box in my attic.

Fast forward, on bed rest with my daughter I had space and time to write. I wanted people to live in their true color. Be who they were inside on the outside. That book was called Living In True Color. When my second was born life took a new direction. That book is lost in the ether of files on my computer.

That brings us to 17 months ago. I declared with Tyler Elizabeth Dorsey that I wanted to write a book that would inspire people to be who they are by coming to know their ADHD.

And here we are on the path to publishing. This has been an incredible unfolding. I would not be who I am if I hadn’t first failed, given up, been a bitch(yes I was in high school), chosen differently and let my strawberry soul live in the wild. Without all that has played out in my life this work wouldn’t be possible.

In the coming months I will be sharing the “real feels” of being a once wordsmith to self-published author… here’s to stepping into the wild with all my stripes.

Some say everyone writes a book. This one came through the depths of me. I’m glad to say the second person that told me publishing was so hard and questioned my drive for it… I’m proving him wrong. I’m doing this thing!!

🦓

Writing is a beautiful and humbling process!
05/15/2026

Writing is a beautiful and humbling process!

It’s official. I have my very first sign up for my book, Living In The Wild: Embracing Your Stripes With ADHD, coming Oc...
05/15/2026

It’s official. I have my very first sign up for my book, Living In The Wild: Embracing Your Stripes With ADHD, coming October 1st! I am looking forward to sharing more soon!

Shout out to my devoted reader, Leslie.

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