About Me

Hi, I’m Angela.

I’m an ADHD coach and a technology consultant, and I’ve spent a lot of time in conversations with people who are capable, driven, and genuinely trying, and still feel like they’re falling behind some invisible standard.

In my coaching work, a theme kept showing up: perfectionism and the pressure to perform and to please others. Not always in loud, obvious ways. More like a constant background hum, the sense that you have to be impressive to be safe, over-productive to be “enough,” and embrace an ambitious, over-scheduled, discipline of achievement to be worthy of respect.

After a while, I realized I wasn’t only hearing individual struggles. I was seeing how the world we live in persuades us to live up to impossible standards.

That’s when I started looking at this more deeply through two lenses:

• Psychology helps me understand what’s happening internally: how attention, motivation, identity, stress, and self-evaluation interact, especially for people with ADHD who are trying to thrive in environments that reward constant output. I’m currently wrapping up my undergraduate degree in psychology, and it’s helped me understand human behavior, especially in the context of society.

• Rhetorical analysis helps me understand what’s happening externally: how language persuades us to adopt certain standards, how self-help and productivity culture teach us what to admire, and how everyday phrases can quietly turn ambition into a moral obligation.

In other words: psychology helps me understand the person, and rhetoric helps me understand the message environment shaping the person.

Why I write Worth in Words Press

Worth in Words is where I write public essays about how our discourse shapes us to perform for worth through narratives about merit, excellence, discipline, and success.

Some pieces are longer essays. Some are shorter notes: a close reading of a phrase, a trend, or a popular book. The point is always the same: to slow down the messages we swim in every day and make them easier to see—so we can choose what we want to carry forward.

Where I’m headed

Alongside my coaching and consulting work, I’m applying to a master’s program in Rhetoric and Composition to deepen my research and writing practice, and to keep building a voice that’s both readable and rigorous.

If you’ve ever felt the pressure to earn your worth through constant productivity or you’ve sensed that the culture’s definition of “excellence” is narrower than it needs to be I’m really glad you’re here.