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The Lotus Bridge Philosophy

Like the lotus flower that blooms even in the most challenging of environments, you CAN overcome the challenges in your life.

Even though your natural personality traits (like ADD and high creativity) make you vulnerable to emotional reactivity, impulsivity, and distractibility, you can succeed.

The Lotus Bridge is an actual bridge that connects China and Macau - two countries that speak different languages, have dramatically different cultures and drive on opposite sides of the road..

The bridge not only connects the two countries, it facilitates people in switching from driving on the right side of the road to driving on the left side. (I love this as a metaphor for left-right brain differences)

My philosophy is that even though your natural "right brain" creativity, or your ADD create challenges for you in a left brain dominant world, you CAN learn to use your gifts to succeed in your own unique way.

That's my mission. To provide Coaching, education and support that empowers you to DESIGN more success into your life!

Are you ready to
Get Unstuck, Get Inspired and Get Results that last?

 

Are you ready to Get Unstuck,
Get Inspired into Action, and Get Results?

Helping people live happier, healthier, less stressful lives is my mission in life. My specialties include working with people who have highly creative personality types (right brain dominant), have ADD / ADHD, and anyone who has problems with time management, attending to routine tasks, prioritizing, disorganization and excessive clutter.

Having ADHD (or a creative personality type with right brain preferences that prefers to "keep options open") can turn completing the most mundane of daily tasks into a living nightmare. Boredom with repetitive routines, indecision, high sensitivity and reactivity, distractibility, and frequently changing your mind are hallmark traits of both ADD and High Creativity.

These traits, left unattended, often lead to low self-esteem, depression, stress disorders, addictions, overspending, poor boundaries, chronic fatigue, perfectionism, procrastination, disorganization, chronic overwhelm, excessive clutter, and traumatized attachment to things and information over people (AKA hoarding behavior), just to name a few.

"When you change the way you see things,
things change."


The keys to getting unstuck from these debilitating patterns and regaining your energy for life include:

  • Understanding how ADD, creative personality type, and right brain / left brain integrations affect your ability to act on your intentions, and the way you make decisions, plan, and prioritize
  • Learning to see yourself in a new way - fully accepting the things you cannot change about yourself - your strengths, limits, needs, differences
  • Learning how to work with yourself effectively
  • Developing your ability to plan, prioritize, make decisions, establish personal boundaries, and say no
  • Becoming more mindful
  • Identifying patterns of distraction, impulsivity and paralyzing inner conflict, and improve your ability to manage them
  • Discovering your personal sources of energy and motivation and learning how to harness them
  • Organizing your life and environment using simple, easy to maintain strategies that work with your unique style and personality preferences - and that are easy for you to maintain

If you often feel like you have flashes of brilliance and high potential, but are also often "stuck" and unable to make progress, or if you feel that you know what to do, but just can't make yourself do it, you have come to the right place. Welcome to the "tribe." You are not alone!

What you are going through is not normal "procrastination." It's a physical and chemical difference in the way your brain works that can lead to chronic, cyclical "stuckness." It can be caused by ADD, past emotional trauma, abuse, depression, brian injury, and more. When you don't understand what's happening to you, and you don't know what to do about it, it is incredibly frustrating. And well-meaning people give you advice and tips that just don't work and make you feel even worse. It's a vicious cycle. If you often feel like the part of you that "wants to do things" is completely disconnected from the part of you that "does things", you know exactly what I mean.

I've spent a lifetime working on integrating these seemingly disconnected selves and helping others do it too. My intention is to bring you the best of what I have learned REALLY works to shift your energy, get unstuck, get inspired into action, and get real results. My approach includes helping you:

  • Refocus on "what's right with you"
  • Rebuild your self-confidence by designing more success into your life
  • Identify and change unconscious thought, belief and emotional patterns that lead to stucknesses
  • Clarify values and priorities, and resolve inner conflicts that keep you stuck
  • Define your personal boundary system and learn how to set, communicate and negotiate boundaries with others in a way that actually strengthens your relationship with yourself and others in your life
  • Set up ultra-simple systems that inspire you and make organizing a source of stress relief - not agony - so that you can more easily manage your life, home, actions, finances, work, and paper

I support you in making the tough decisions needed to make room for what you really want in life -- like a home you enjoy being in, a job or career you love, relationships that nourish you, better health, less stress, and feeling safe to be your authentic self in the world.

My own journey to a simpler, less stressful, more authentic life that works with my creative personality type and ADHD, has given me 50 years of education, experience and training to draw upon to help you succeed.

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have to help you decide if working with me is right for you!

You can also learn more about me here:

About Ariane Benefit | Press and Media | Reviews / Testimonials

"Working with you has changed my whole life and saved my marriage. My husband says it was the best money we ever spent. My kids are so happy we aren't fighting all the time now... It's actually easy to clean now. You are AWESOME! Thanks for giving me and my family a chance at a better life."

Sandra C.

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Below are the coaching services, programs, and learning resources I offer.

NEW TELECLASS! - Getting Unstuck: 8 Keys

Getting Unstuck

"Getting Unstuck:  8 Keys to Overcoming Chronic Disorganization and Overwhelm" In this teleclass, I share several keys to overcoming "stuckness" and give a mini half hour coaching session to help a participant with her challenge of "being chronically late to work ."

 You get the recording + a 13 page handout complete with a full-color graphic model of the 8 Keys. You can listen over the web or download.

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* Email Support for one month

* Review of any photos you send

* Easy Instant Online Booking System, with automated reminders

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Learn more about the Getting Unstuck Group Coaching Program For Women with ADD, ADHD, Creative Personality

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Programs Include:

* 30 minutes of individual coaching with Ariane

* 2 Group Coaching Calls

* 1 Body Doubling Call

* Free Download Library

* Forums and much more

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"Overcoming Overspending"
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Listen to Jennifer Koretsky interview me on Overcoming Overspending which I presented on at the Virtual ADHD Conference On October 7, 2009

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"The Link between Creativity & Disorganization"

(75 Minutes)

Note: The Handout is no longer available. Class given March 2008

What is Chronic Disorganization vs. Situational Disorganization?

Is it ADD or Personality Type?

Do you make To Do lists but then don't follow them? Tips for making To Do Lists work

ADD Friendly Tips for Moving and Packing with Less Stress

Learning from Overcoming Welfare and Poverty Culture



 
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"I've worked with organizers in the past, but Ariane is different. She doesn't impose a one-size-fits-all organizational stategy, but develops one tailored to who you are and how you work. Ariane is not only interested in getting you organized, but in making sure that she leaves you with a system that helps you to stay organized. With her help, I'm more productive than I've been in years!"

R.D.

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Merchant Ratings"This book is the most delightful and comprehensive "how to" manual that I have had the pleasure to read in a long time.  I will definitely recommend it to all my clients who struggle with organizing their offices.  It is an easy read and chock full of valuable insight and information. It is very easy to understand and then implement changes you need to make in order to free yourself from clutter and disorganization."
- Liz Maffucci, Professional Organizer and Coach, The Clutter Warrior

Merchant Ratings"The "Neat and Simple Guide to Organizing your Home Office" is the most comprehensive and practical book I have come across since starting my organizing business in 1999. It's easy to read, encourages you to discover your true self by identifying your priorities and organizing style and teaches you how to get past the mental clutter to propel you to success. It's not just another organizing book to add to your collection. It's THE book to have and refer to, not only for your office, but the entire home.

-Eileen Kirna, President, Kirna Consulting, LLC
Organizing, Redesign & Real Estate Staging

Merchant Ratings " This book is fantastic! I love it! Especially your idea of making file labels with logos for your ultra visual "innovating" style client. That was BRILLIANT! I will recommend this book to all my office organizing clients and to my blog readers too!"
- Jessica Duquette, Professional Organizer, Blogger, In Perfect Order

 

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