The Ultimate ADHD Holiday Survival Guide
Stop surviving the holidays and start enjoying them. Download our free ADHD guide with science-backed strategies for managing stress, energy, and joy this holiday season.
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The holiday season is supposed to be about rest, joy, and tradition. But if you have ADHD, it often feels like the exact opposite: a period of severe stress, sensory overload, and emotional exhaustion. You're not imagining it, and you're not failing.
The holidays introduce rapid accumulation of new, novel tasks (shopping, planning, traveling, decorating) that are often disorganized and unstructured. This is basically kryptonite for the ADHD system. When you look at the stress factors, they hit every single one of your known executive function weaknesses simultaneously. It's a perfect storm.
But here's the thing: with the right strategies and mindset shifts, you can move from inevitable overwhelm and burnout to genuine peace and presence. You can actually enjoy the connections, not just survive the details.
This guide will help you:
- Understand why the holidays are uniquely challenging for ADHD brains
- Build practical skills for task management and self-care
- Set effective boundaries and manage your environment
- Handle emotional barriers like perfectionism and rejection sensitivity
- Create sustainable holiday traditions that actually work for you
Shimmer members are enjoying more focused and confident lives
The way we approach ADHD is broken
For too long, support systems were built to normalize and hide, not empower neurodivergent folks. They expected us to fit into neurotypical molds instead of rethinking the molds themselves. No wonder so many of us end up stuck in the same cycles of shame and burnout.
At Shimmer, we believe ADHD brains don’t need to be fixed—they need better design. That’s why we built a platform that combines expert coaching, real community, and ADHD-friendly tools you can actually use.
We’re rewriting the playbook.
