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Helping Brilliant but Exhausted ADHD Visionaries Build Your Dream Without Burning Out
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About Christine Wilson, LPC — Founder of Think Time™
Hi, I’m Christine — a Licensed Professional Counselor (TX), mom of six, and the creator of Think Time™, the first whole-brain planning system designed for ADHD leaders, entrepreneurs, and creative high achievers. For years, I read every productivity book, tried every planner, and pushed myself harder… but nothing stuck. Not because I wasn’t mot
Sometimes life gives you more than you can handle. 🤍
I remember being about eight months pregnant with my third child and feeling completely overwhelmed.
I already had two little ones, and honestly, I didn’t feel like I was doing very well with the life I already had.
I was tired.
I was stretched.
I was trying.
And the thought of adding another baby into the mix felt almost impossible.
I remember thinking, How in the world am I going to do this?
Back then, I didn’t really have a strategy. I didn’t have a system that helped me slow down, get clear, and decide what mattered most.
I just had that sinking feeling of, Well… I guess we’ll figure it out.
And yes, sometimes we do figure it out.
But now I know there is a better way.
Because sometimes life really does ask more of you than you feel prepared to carry.
Maybe work changes.
Maybe your family needs more.
Maybe the market shifts.
Maybe a relationship changes.
And suddenly, you’re not just overwhelmed because you have a lot to do.
You’re overwhelmed because there is actually more to do than there is time to do it.
That is a real kind of overwhelm.
And in seasons like that, the question is not always, How do I get everything done?
Because you probably won’t.
The better question is:
How do I walk through this season in a way that lets me look back with gratitude instead of regret? 🌿
Here are three things I come back to:
1. Get clarity.
Quiet your soul and ask yourself what you want this season to really be about.
2. Put first things first.
A priority is a first thing. You may not get everything done, but you can make sure the most important things are not forgotten.
3. Bring people along.
Do not go through hard seasons alone. Make time for connection, even if it is small.
Because when the season passes, you don’t just want to say, “I survived.”
You want to be able to say:
👉 I knew what mattered most.
👉 I did what mattered most.
👉 And I did it with the people who mattered most.
That is how overwhelming seasons become meaningful seasons.
Not easy or perfect.
Meaningful.
And your life deserves to be planned that way. ✨
If you’re looking for a planning system that helps you create more time in your life — and more life in your time — start with the Think Time® NeuroPlanner™.
Click here to get started today: https://think-time-live-your-dreams.myshopify.com/collections/blog-collection
05/12/2026
I am so grateful to have had this conversation with Lisa Muelenbein about how overwhelmed physician families can build their dreams without burning out.
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29. How the ThinkTime Planner Helps Busy Families Reduce Overwhelm with Christine Howe Podcast Episode · The MedLife Support Podcast · May 12 · 41m
Here are few more photos from such a sweet evening.
Those mashed potatoes. The pasta. The chicken. The taco. The puffed pastry. The friends. The flowers. The weather. Thr breeze. The hours.
I loved my time with the Baileys and my new Biz Besties. .sassy.nashville
This started as a quiet dream in my in my .
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A couple of years ago, as I was growing, healing, setting boundaries, and beginning to recognize how intergenerational relational trauma had landed in my body, something interesting happened.
My body started craving mountain lakes.
Literally.
I wanted to throw myself into cold, clear mountain water.
So I noticed it. I listened. I honored it. And then, in true Think Time fashion, I NeuroPlanned it. I drew the dream. I piled eight people into a car. My husband at the time worked from a little Airbnb, and I took the kids on mountain hikes until I found the lakes my body kept asking for.
And it was healing.
In my classic ready-fire-aim method, I was already in motion before I fully understood why it was working.
So then I researched.
Turns out, for many people — not everyone — cold exposure may support:
❄️ alertness + energy
❄️ dopamine + norepinephrine
❄️ mood + stress resilience
❄️ reduced soreness for some
❄️ nervous system training
❄️ the embodied reminder: “I can do hard things”
For me, it’s not about being tough.
It’s about listening to my body, supporting my nervous system, and breathing steadily through discomfort.
Because high performance is not overriding your body.
It’s learning how to work with it.
Please consult your physician. I’m not giving medical, athletic, or psychological advice. Cold plunges are not for everyone, especially if you’re pregnant or have heart, blood pressure, circulation, Raynaud’s, seizure, or other medical concerns.
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An older gentleman walked up to me as I got out of the pool today and said,
“How do you do it?”
It was SO cold.
So I thought I’d share. 😊
About six years ago, my first cold plunge was in Jackson Lake at the base of the Tetons. My friend Liza looked at me like I was hilarious.
I raised my arms from my postpartum body and called out to my homeschool-mom vacation buddy:
“This is supposed to enhance performance!!!”
She just giggled at me.
Then the idea resurfaced again two or three years ago after I moved to our log cabin in Tennessee. I had made a very active decision to take a more “body-up” approach to mental health. Not just thinking my way into healing. Not just journaling. Not just mindset.
But actually working with my nervous system through my body.
The only problem?
I was a total wimp when it came to cold. 😂
So I started with what I called cool plunges.
I filled my bathtub with cool water and tried to stay in for three minutes.
Then I progressed to grabbing kitchen containers, filling them with water, freezing them, and dropping those giant homemade ice cubes into the tub while I exercised downstairs.
My routine became: workout, shower, cold plunge.
And I would wear a swimsuit so my kids could get excited about it with me. They always had the most amazed faces—especially my little boy.
“It’s COLD!!” he would say with this huge, impressed smile.
He was genuinely wowed by my bravery.
Eventually, almost two years ago, I joined a gym. When the weather was cold, I would cycle through: hot tub, cold plunge, hot tub, cold plunge, sauna, steam room, and shower 2-3 times a week.
And now that it’s getting warm again, my gym officially transformed one of the hot tubs into a cold plunge.
So basically, I am stoked. 😍
In my next post, I’ll share why cold plunging has become so therapeutic and helpful for me—and why it is now a central part of my rejuvenating routines.
Not because I’m naturally brave.
But because I started small.
And kept showing up.
05/04/2026
When it comes to dreams and goals, everyone thinks it’s about time management.
But I have a different perspective.
I ask what if you had ample focus and energy?
You immediately know your answer.
You would do it twice as fast. 3× 4x 10x as fast.
That is why week by week members get guidance in our membership from me on exactly how to increase clarity that promotes focus and gentle shifts that promote energy.
This picture shows me at the gym in the yoga studio even with my healing sprained ankle.
For the last six weeks, I have had to modify my workouts, but I haven’t missed them.
It’s not because I’m disciplined.
It’s because I depend on them.
What is one thing you can insert in your week this week to improve your focus and energy?
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05/03/2026
When you look at something beautiful, your brain changes.
Not in a hyper way. In a real, human, neuroscience kind of way.
When I sit by a lake like this, I’m reminded that beauty is not a waste of time. Pausing is not doing nothing. Your brain is taking in the scene, your body is softening, and several beautiful things can begin to happen:
🌿 Dopamine — your brain says, “This matters. Pay attention.”
🍃 Serotonin — your system moves toward calm, contentment, and well-being.
🌊 Endorphins — your body gets that soft, soothing exhale you didn’t realize you needed.
✨ Oxytocin — you may feel more connected to the moment, to your life, to God, to others, or to something bigger than yourself.
This matters so much because we live in a world that seems to forever reward output, urgency, and pushed productivity.
But…
A stressed brain is not your best brain.
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop long enough to let beauty bring your brain back online— to “plug yourself in” and “charge your batteries” so you can re-energize.
This is one of the reasons I talk so much about creating space to think, notice, reflect, and remember who you are.
Clarity does not always come from more input. Sometimes it comes from sitting beside a lake and letting yourself exhale.
This is not just fluff.
These are high performance habits you build into your rhythms and your routines.
Not just pushing harder. Not just doing more. But learning how to restore, replenish, renew your brain so you can return to your work, your people, your purpose, and your next right step with more clarity, creativity, and capacity.
Don’t rush past beauty.
Pause.
Notice.
Let it restore you.
Let it help you perform from peace instead of pressure.
05/01/2026
Yesterday, I talked about how most people think of high performance as hitting KPIs, chiseling a six-pack, or closing the business deal.
And yes, sometimes it is.
But a lot of the time?
High performance looks a lot more like real life.
It looks like failing forward.
Not hitting the goal.
Not getting it perfect.
Not performing at the level you hoped you would.
And then learning from it without shaming yourself so you can move into the next day with more wisdom, more humility, and more strength.
Sometimes high performance is not having a six-pack.
Sometimes it is trying to gently weave back together a diastasis that is three to four inches apart after carrying six babies.
Speaking for a friend. 😉
Sometimes it is showing up twice a week, every week, to the same heated yoga with weights class, slowly rebuilding strength from the inside out.
Especially your core.
Not because you are trying to look perfect.
But because over Christmas break, when your four-year-old’s ice skates somehow got tangled up with yours and you fell backward so hard your head hit the ice, you got a wake-up call.
The kind that reminds you how quickly life can change.
The kind that makes you realize that core strength is not just about abs.
It is about stability.
Protection.
Longevity.
Being able to catch yourself.
Being able to keep showing up for the life you actually want to live.
And maybe that fall was harder than it needed to be because your core was not fully supporting you yet.
Again.
Speaking for a friend.
High performance is not always glamorous.
Sometimes it is healing your body.
Sometimes it is healing your soul.
Sometimes it is learning how to fall, recover, and rebuild.
And when it comes to business?
Sometimes high performance is not closing the deal.
Sometimes it is nurturing a dream no one else can fully see yet.
It is taking step one.
Then step two.
Then step three, four, and five.
It is building something when you do not even know if it will work yet.
It is continuing when people think you are unrealistic.
It is moving forward when the dream has lived in your heart for ten years and still has not let go.
That is high performance too.
Failing forward.
Healing what needs to be healed.
Nurturing the dreams that will not leave you alone.
That is the real work.
And that is what we practice inside Think Time.
Every year.
Every quarter.
Every month.
Every week.
We create space to notice what is working, what is not working, what needs to heal, what needs to grow, and what still matters enough to keep going.
If you are curious how Think Time can support you, we have a planner for the do-it-yourselfers, a membership for those who want guided group support, and custom options for those who need a solution shaped around their real life.
You can hop on a free call, and we will do our best to serve you.
04/30/2026
Most people, when they think about high performance, think about hitting KPIs, getting in shape, or closing the deal.
And yes—those things can matter.
But from my perspective, high performance is more than what you achieve.
It’s also about who you are becoming.
Especially when you have ADHD.
Because your emotional life matters. Deeply.
One emotional sucker punch can knock your focus off for three days in a row!
So it’s not just about managing your goals.
It’s about learning how to manage your inner world with more awareness, agency, and resilience.
It’s about building a life that aligns with who you are, who you want to become, and what actually matters to you.
It’s about weathering the storms when they come—and still being able to come back to yourself.
High performance isn’t just about results.
It’s about results, relationships, and resilience over the long haul.
For the next few weeks, Bekah and I are opening up time on our calendars to talk with ADHD high achievers and creative leaders about your dreams, your goals, your current life situation, and your next best steps.
Click the link in my bio to schedule a call.
04/29/2026
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