Coach, Alex Hey, PCAC, Founder of Reset ADHD
Coaches in Action
Certified Coach, Alex Hey, AACC, PCAC, founder of Reset ADHD discusses his journey to become an ADHD Coach. You will be awed as you listen to his beautifully-written & emotionally charged poem entitled, "I’m Still Here".
I'm Alex R. Hey, PCAC, and I am the founder of Reset ADHD. I founded Reset following a time where I was trying to get control of my own ADHD. One of the things I did to help myself was to write a book about ADHD, Catholicism and ADHD: Finding Holiness Despite Distractions, which was just released on Amazon. While writing it, I had the opportunity to take a walk with a friend who was being tested for ADHD. These two experiences awoke a passion in me for helping those with ADHD. I then began my training with the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) to help others hit the reset button on their ADHD and start fresh with strengths-based strategies. I like to say I help people work with their brains, not against them.
As a coach, I most enjoy working with people who are figuring out what it means to be an adult and in a way that is authentic to who they are. This means, my ideal clients are older teens and young adults, but I do work with any teen or adult. I hear how the questions I ask my clients resonate with them and lead to amazing realizations about who they are and how they want to operate.
I started writing poetry in a serious way in the summer of 2017, and it quickly became one of my go-to ways to get my swirling thoughts out of my head. I find it better to get the thoughts out of my head than to let them swirl around in my head and attack me. My poem, 'Average' was written while I was reflecting on my life with ADHD.
I wrote my next poem, 'I'm Still Here' towards the end of a tumultuous year. A lot had happened to me, and it was hard to cope. One night it got so bad that all I could think of was killing myself. I needed to do something. I chose to stay, and I knew I needed to make that choice every day. To help me stay, I wrote a poem promising to stay and listing all of my reasons for staying.
I wrote 'I'm Still Here' because I felt I needed to write it. I also thought that maybe someone else out there needed to hear it.
Listen to 'I'm Still Here' below.
