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Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD―For Neurodivergent Men and Women or Parents of ADHD Children
"Using the most current research and her approachable style, Dr. Rosier shows those with ADHD and their families how to create new thinking habits, identify unhelpful thought and emotional patterns, and apply strategies to change them"--
208 pages, Paperback
First published September 21, 2021
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April 27, 2022
First, the good. This is the first book that I’ve read so far that somehow systematizes the emotions, reactions, thought traps, and challenges that people with ADHD face. I appreciate especially the latter; I am at this point fed up with all the people trying to romanticize ADHD by calling it a superpower and the people with the disorder, unique and creative. I will happily give my creativity away if it means being happy in everyday life and feeling I belong, thank you very much. Tamara Rosier recognizes and acknowledges that with ADHD come difficulties that need to be, somehow, navigated. The problem is - and the reason why my rating is merely average - she doesn’t really provide any map. She very accurately presents an issue and… that’s it. Most of the anecdotes and examples ended with a vague “X worked with an ADHD coach and now has proper tools”. And the reader can only stare at the page and ask, ok, but what tools?
I know, I know, ADHD comes in all shapes and sizes, and there is no one size fits all solution. Unfortunately, other than visualization, there is really no solution to try in this book. You are being led to a problem and instructed, and now deal with it.
I realize that it might be a “me” thing. Maybe I am now beyond the point when I need validation that I’m not insane; now my question is, what about it and how can I work with it. This the book doesn’t address, and it left me even more frustrated.
I know, I know, ADHD comes in all shapes and sizes, and there is no one size fits all solution. Unfortunately, other than visualization, there is really no solution to try in this book. You are being led to a problem and instructed, and now deal with it.
I realize that it might be a “me” thing. Maybe I am now beyond the point when I need validation that I’m not insane; now my question is, what about it and how can I work with it. This the book doesn’t address, and it left me even more frustrated.
December 26, 2021
If you or a loved one have ADHD you NEED to read this book. I was diagnosed at 27 and felt over whelmed by the diagnosis. I stumbled upon this book reccomendation and loved. Each chapter is pretty close to stand alone which is so helpful. The real life examples really resignated with me. Being able to finally read about how ADHD affects adults was so helpful because a lot of the books on ADHD focus on kids. She does touch on parenting and kids a bit but it was refreshing to learn how it presents in adults and make me feel more comfortable with my diagnosis. It also help solidified my diagnosis and gave me tools outside of medication to help go about my day.
November 11, 2021
I read a lot of books on ADHD, so it's infrequent where I hit one that has a lot of new stuff.
This is that book. Tons of very important additions to my personal ADHD tool chest and knowledge base.
If you're getting the audio version, don't be put off by the large "Christian Audio" banner. There is no religious content in the book. It's 100% about living with ADHD in one's self or one's family.
I can't recommend it more.
This is that book. Tons of very important additions to my personal ADHD tool chest and knowledge base.
If you're getting the audio version, don't be put off by the large "Christian Audio" banner. There is no religious content in the book. It's 100% about living with ADHD in one's self or one's family.
I can't recommend it more.
September 14, 2023
This book is, unfortunately, not as neuroaffirming as it could be; it regularly contrasts the ADHD brain with a "normal" or "normal-functioning" brain. The term neurotypical was well in circulation at the time this was published so making the opposite of ADHD be "normal" was pretty outdated. This is especially unusual since the final chapter of the book talks about all the /other/ people who speak negatively about ADHD, and how
There were large parts of this book that i loved- I really appreciated the explanation of the prefrontal cortex and how the services at Butler improved short-term memory and hints. I resonated with the description of how sensory hypersensitivity relates to emotional hyperactivity, but noted that there were a lot of blaming of external factors and a tendency to trust external reporting of the client's experience rather than listening to the client's internal experience. This removes agency from us- I am the expert on me. Only I know what it feels like inside me.
Further into the book, it contrasts neurotypical style convergent thinking with ADHD divergent thinking. There was a 9-point outline of divergent thinking "cognitive errors" which could be summarised as: "Divergent thinking can be great and you should enjoy it, but if it makes it hard to get your work done, just switch and think more like a neurotypical." There is no direct explanation on how to switch into convergent thinking, just to "do" that. Similarly, there is a chapter devoted to toxic motivation traps, explaining that essentially all the ways ADHDers motivate ourselves are harmful, and we should do a different thing. There was no clear guidance about what that different thing should be, although a couple bullets of the toxic motivation traps (such as talking to your future, present, and past self) were actually described as a positive action that can support our thinking.
the author proposes that our schedule can be sorted by breaking all tasks down into 4 categories, sorted by level of fun and "emotional intensity", the latter a concept I really struggled to grasp. A comment suggested that for those who struggled to understand, the appendix in the back would help- however the appendix that was suggested encouraged me to simply assign tasks a category and asked me why, rather than offer any suggestion as to HOW to determine the category each task belongs in. Later in the book, with examples of how the tasks make us /feel/, it helped me to understand how to categorize the tasks, but I still don't understand the concept of emotional intensity as used in the book.
This book isn't billed as, and typically does not take the stance of, a faith-based book. This makes it particularly jarring when Dr Rosier advises that it's important for /some profiles/ of ADHD to ensure they set time aside to "breathe and Pray...focus on God and his promise" in our life. Similarly, later in the book, when talking about boundaries, she compares our inner self to a house, where people cannot come in without permission (disregard the idea of intrusive thoughts or burglars), sharing that "not even the God of the universe" can enter without being invited.
There's nothing wrong with having a relationship with faith, but dropping small kernels of imperative faith in an otherwise logic-based book just feels awkward.
The book was helpful. there were parts I took photos of to save quotes, parts that were very useful and parts I will apply to my life. There were also parts that felt misplaced, outdated, and even somewhat offensive. I don't strongly recommend my clients to read this book, but some may find it useful, if they feel called to separate the good from the bad.
There were large parts of this book that i loved- I really appreciated the explanation of the prefrontal cortex and how the services at Butler improved short-term memory and hints. I resonated with the description of how sensory hypersensitivity relates to emotional hyperactivity, but noted that there were a lot of blaming of external factors and a tendency to trust external reporting of the client's experience rather than listening to the client's internal experience. This removes agency from us- I am the expert on me. Only I know what it feels like inside me.
Further into the book, it contrasts neurotypical style convergent thinking with ADHD divergent thinking. There was a 9-point outline of divergent thinking "cognitive errors" which could be summarised as: "Divergent thinking can be great and you should enjoy it, but if it makes it hard to get your work done, just switch and think more like a neurotypical." There is no direct explanation on how to switch into convergent thinking, just to "do" that. Similarly, there is a chapter devoted to toxic motivation traps, explaining that essentially all the ways ADHDers motivate ourselves are harmful, and we should do a different thing. There was no clear guidance about what that different thing should be, although a couple bullets of the toxic motivation traps (such as talking to your future, present, and past self) were actually described as a positive action that can support our thinking.
the author proposes that our schedule can be sorted by breaking all tasks down into 4 categories, sorted by level of fun and "emotional intensity", the latter a concept I really struggled to grasp. A comment suggested that for those who struggled to understand, the appendix in the back would help- however the appendix that was suggested encouraged me to simply assign tasks a category and asked me why, rather than offer any suggestion as to HOW to determine the category each task belongs in. Later in the book, with examples of how the tasks make us /feel/, it helped me to understand how to categorize the tasks, but I still don't understand the concept of emotional intensity as used in the book.
This book isn't billed as, and typically does not take the stance of, a faith-based book. This makes it particularly jarring when Dr Rosier advises that it's important for /some profiles/ of ADHD to ensure they set time aside to "breathe and Pray...focus on God and his promise" in our life. Similarly, later in the book, when talking about boundaries, she compares our inner self to a house, where people cannot come in without permission (disregard the idea of intrusive thoughts or burglars), sharing that "not even the God of the universe" can enter without being invited.
There's nothing wrong with having a relationship with faith, but dropping small kernels of imperative faith in an otherwise logic-based book just feels awkward.
The book was helpful. there were parts I took photos of to save quotes, parts that were very useful and parts I will apply to my life. There were also parts that felt misplaced, outdated, and even somewhat offensive. I don't strongly recommend my clients to read this book, but some may find it useful, if they feel called to separate the good from the bad.
February 16, 2023
I skimmed over some of the family stuff but some other stuff was a revelation. The few Christian sentences were off putting.
December 18, 2024
کتاب بخشی از تجارب شخصی نویسنده و تجارب مراجعانش بود و راهکارهایی برای یکسری مشکلات داشت.
به نسبت کتابهای موجود یکم راهکارهای متفاوتتری میداد و حرفهای متنوعتری میزد. خوب بود.
آذر ۱۴۰۳
به نسبت کتابهای موجود یکم راهکارهای متفاوتتری میداد و حرفهای متنوعتری میزد. خوب بود.
آذر ۱۴۰۳
February 2, 2022
seriously, if you have ADHD and feel completely lost and hopeless you should definitely try this out. every chapter is very validating. and if you’re a cryer (like me) it’s gonna be a wet one
February 25, 2023
I picked this up to learn more about ADHD on behalf of my friend who is likely to be diagnosed with ADHD soon, but found myself very quickly going - but but but, isn't it like this for everyone?! and realising that what I was reading was helping me make sense of the way my own brain works :D With the caveat that my life is pretty much in good, chilled order these days - in terms of 'getting things done' that's thanks to the routines I have in place. My younger self could definitely have related more to the difficulties people with ADHD have.
I enjoyed the book, I thought that for the most part it puts things in a simple, clear way and it's a good introduction to ADHD and some strategies for dealing with the difficulties. I like how it makes it clear that everyone is different, with some examples of the different patterns people can get into and including case examples of clients of hers who experience ADHD in different ways (as well as about herself).
I especially liked the chapter about the Solve-It Grid and have of course created my own, I think it's a really helpful way of looking at the activities in your life and assessing where they go on the grid and how to improve your balance and how to tackle the boring bits. I don't think I'll be thinking of tasks and activities in my life in quite the same way ever again! Again, I like that she makes clear that different people's activities might be unbalanced on the grid in different ways and for different reasons - you can't use the grid to give the same advice to everyone because it depends on the person and what their own grid looks like.
Also found the information about the striatum really interesting, and the studies she mentions showing its behaviour in people with ADHD in relation to reward anticipation made sense to me, and the divergent vs convergent thinking stuff blew my mind as I hadn't heard of that before. Oh and the early chapter about emotional regulation was really helpful in understanding what's going on inside someone with ADHD.
The chapter about boundaries lost me a little bit, I think due to it going too deep into the 'house' metaphor, I think it's one I'd need to read again to pick out more clearly the sound advice that it does include. I also think the part about sleep was not particularly helpful - the advice it gives is the obvious, plus a bunch of scaremongering about the effects of lack of sleep that would surely not help someone who is struggling to get enough sleep :D But I did like the chapter about parenting a lot.
So, with the disclaimer that it's difficult to give a full informed opinion given this is the first book I've read about ADHD (I will be reading more), and I only knew a little about ADHD before starting it, I do think it is a good starting point and worth a read.
I enjoyed the book, I thought that for the most part it puts things in a simple, clear way and it's a good introduction to ADHD and some strategies for dealing with the difficulties. I like how it makes it clear that everyone is different, with some examples of the different patterns people can get into and including case examples of clients of hers who experience ADHD in different ways (as well as about herself).
I especially liked the chapter about the Solve-It Grid and have of course created my own, I think it's a really helpful way of looking at the activities in your life and assessing where they go on the grid and how to improve your balance and how to tackle the boring bits. I don't think I'll be thinking of tasks and activities in my life in quite the same way ever again! Again, I like that she makes clear that different people's activities might be unbalanced on the grid in different ways and for different reasons - you can't use the grid to give the same advice to everyone because it depends on the person and what their own grid looks like.
Also found the information about the striatum really interesting, and the studies she mentions showing its behaviour in people with ADHD in relation to reward anticipation made sense to me, and the divergent vs convergent thinking stuff blew my mind as I hadn't heard of that before. Oh and the early chapter about emotional regulation was really helpful in understanding what's going on inside someone with ADHD.
The chapter about boundaries lost me a little bit, I think due to it going too deep into the 'house' metaphor, I think it's one I'd need to read again to pick out more clearly the sound advice that it does include. I also think the part about sleep was not particularly helpful - the advice it gives is the obvious, plus a bunch of scaremongering about the effects of lack of sleep that would surely not help someone who is struggling to get enough sleep :D But I did like the chapter about parenting a lot.
So, with the disclaimer that it's difficult to give a full informed opinion given this is the first book I've read about ADHD (I will be reading more), and I only knew a little about ADHD before starting it, I do think it is a good starting point and worth a read.
November 27, 2022
Por lo general no se habla de TDAH en adultos y menos en mujeres, este libro esta escrito por una mujer adulta con TDAH y su familia tmb tiene TDAH.
5 estrellas del capítulo 1 al capítulo 7 y el capítulo 14, estos primeros capítulos están perfectos para poder analizar, identificar, saber como mejorar y comenzar a entender el TDAH; ya sea si tienes TDAH o conoces a alguien. Del capítulo 8 al 13 habla de estrategias, se me hicieron bastante repetitivas y la cerdad no creo emplearlas. Para ser un libro sobre TDAH, para personas con TDAH, no pude poner nada de atención en esos capítulos pq sentí que volvía a repetir todo lo que menciono en los primeros capitulos.
Super recomendados los primeros 7 capítulos y el 14 si es que tienes TDAH, si conoces a alguien con y quieres entenderlx mejor o si solamente quieres saber del tema. No leas todos los otros.
5 estrellas del capítulo 1 al capítulo 7 y el capítulo 14, estos primeros capítulos están perfectos para poder analizar, identificar, saber como mejorar y comenzar a entender el TDAH; ya sea si tienes TDAH o conoces a alguien. Del capítulo 8 al 13 habla de estrategias, se me hicieron bastante repetitivas y la cerdad no creo emplearlas. Para ser un libro sobre TDAH, para personas con TDAH, no pude poner nada de atención en esos capítulos pq sentí que volvía a repetir todo lo que menciono en los primeros capitulos.
Super recomendados los primeros 7 capítulos y el 14 si es que tienes TDAH, si conoces a alguien con y quieres entenderlx mejor o si solamente quieres saber del tema. No leas todos los otros.
October 1, 2023
As someone who’s been diagnosed with ADHD and studies psychology, I can appreciate this book in that it provides readers with a decent fundamental understanding of ADHD, how it impacts those who are afflicted, and some basic suggestions on how one may manage that. I enjoyed the author’s use of starkly distinguishing between convergent and divergent thinking in daily life. Aside from that, I didn’t get much out of this book.
This book attempts to give a profile of ADHD but doesn’t provide the proper research to back it up as far as sources go. I realized after finishing this book that the author is not a trained psychologist, which may explain some of the hollow statements provided about ADHD throughout. I also felt quite put-off by the occasional religious references which felt unnecessary in context. Eh.
This book attempts to give a profile of ADHD but doesn’t provide the proper research to back it up as far as sources go. I realized after finishing this book that the author is not a trained psychologist, which may explain some of the hollow statements provided about ADHD throughout. I also felt quite put-off by the occasional religious references which felt unnecessary in context. Eh.
June 22, 2023
Rather than providing a list of coping strategy this book seemed more focused on explaining the ways in which ADHD impacts everyday life and identifying potential ADHD 'traps'. By traps I mean the unhealthy behaviours and thoughts that are often used as a way of managing symptoms. (eg. shame, procrastination etc.) Also very good if you just want to feel validated. If you are already well versed in the subject, there might not be a ton of new information for you, but personally I found this a very worthwhile read.
September 20, 2023
By far the most helpful book I’ve read on ADHD for adults. Lots of focus on the invisible symptoms of ADHD with practical, helpful strategies shared. Honestly, the ideas for managing tasks and checking in with emotions could be useful for people with atypical brains too!
October 17, 2024
I’m realizing that I need to be more intentional about weaving reading about ADHD into my routine more often after reading this. I felt a deep sense of relief when I received my diagnosis several years ago because it made me feel like I understood myself better. However, reading this has illuminated some ways that I’ve allowed my internal dialogue to run rampant with ADHD thinking patterns about myself and my abilities. I loved the practical tools for helping go beyond just understanding how ADHD makes things harder for me to actually being able to manage the way my brain works to still be able to thrive. I feel like I learned a lot from this one and hope to be able to implement some of the strategies she discusses.
December 25, 2024
1000 sterren voor hoeveel dit boek mij helpt.
August 9, 2024
ای کاش این مدل کتابها ترجمه میشد یا من میتونستم ترجمه کنم. کتابهای جدیدی که به روزتر هست در مورد یک سری مسائل تخصصیتر مثل
ADHD.
برای کسی که تازه تشخیص داده شده که
ADD
یا ADHD
داره، شروع خوبیه به نظرم.
خیلی علائم مختلف رو بهش میپردازه و سعی میکنه حالا یک سری راهحل هم برای مدیریت کردن آشفتگیها بگه. من نتونستم اونها رو دنبال کنم و کتاب بیشتر بهم دید داد در مورد کلنجارهای زیادی که در ذهنم و در نتیجه در زندگیم دارم. و در نهایت این سوال رو از خودم میپرسم که چرا من باید انقققدر با خودم کلنجار برم و یا شاید قرص بخورم تا بتونم بگنجم در نظام ارزشی تعریف شدهی دنیا! به چه قیمتی؟ آیا این همه زور زدن ارزش داره برای رسیدن به خیلی چیزهایی که در ذهنم هست؟ ولی خب جدای از این رسیدن و اینها، مسائل ذهنی روزمرهست که کنترل اونها هم یکم دشواره؛ ولی خب سرزنش نکردن خود و صبور بودن با خود توی این قسمتش خیلی مهمه به نظرم…
ADHD.
برای کسی که تازه تشخیص داده شده که
ADD
یا ADHD
داره، شروع خوبیه به نظرم.
خیلی علائم مختلف رو بهش میپردازه و سعی میکنه حالا یک سری راهحل هم برای مدیریت کردن آشفتگیها بگه. من نتونستم اونها رو دنبال کنم و کتاب بیشتر بهم دید داد در مورد کلنجارهای زیادی که در ذهنم و در نتیجه در زندگیم دارم. و در نهایت این سوال رو از خودم میپرسم که چرا من باید انقققدر با خودم کلنجار برم و یا شاید قرص بخورم تا بتونم بگنجم در نظام ارزشی تعریف شدهی دنیا! به چه قیمتی؟ آیا این همه زور زدن ارزش داره برای رسیدن به خیلی چیزهایی که در ذهنم هست؟ ولی خب جدای از این رسیدن و اینها، مسائل ذهنی روزمرهست که کنترل اونها هم یکم دشواره؛ ولی خب سرزنش نکردن خود و صبور بودن با خود توی این قسمتش خیلی مهمه به نظرم…
February 20, 2023
A good overview of ADHD and it's challenges and valuable suggestions for methods to mitigate the challenges. A little shallow and at a few points felt needlessly religious but overall a great place to start to learn how to help my own brain.
December 15, 2022
5★: GOOD ENOUGH TO BUY. Very practical, but also hard to listen by audio. I bookmarked a couple spots I'd like to go back to. The color-coded quadrant will likely prove to be useful.
October 17, 2024
A strategy book for managing adhd symptoms but I liked that it also addressed how to deal with someone you love’s adhd and how that might affect your relationship. The only part that really stuck out to me as wrong was that the author recommended you set aside time to meditate and pray in the morning. I understand meditation time and maybe she could have said something like “this is also a great time to pray if this is something you do” but instead she just said to pray? Like I don’t think that prayer should be a necessary part of living with adhd :/ so that was weird but religion was only brought up one more time in an example about wearing an outfit to church which is so normal and fine so overall it was fine and not super churchy which is also what made the praying part stand out so much. Reading this physically will be more helpful than an audiobook since it talks about charts/other stuff a lot
March 1, 2025
As someone who has lived with ADHD for the last 25 years, is trained in the mental health field, and has spent the last two years attempting to facilitate a middle-school classroom, I was not sure that this book would have much to offer me. It was such a joy to be proven wrong.
Rosier offers true and tangible resources, tactics, and skills to better aid in the day-to-day functioning of those that live life under the blanket of ADHD. In all my research, education, and exposure to ADHD, I have never encountered a narrative where the author was so spot on in describing the thought patterns, behaviors, and experiences of someone with ADHD. This not only came from the fact that the author herself has it, but of the clear way that she has devoted her life to understanding and bettering the lives of those with it.
I'd highly recommend this book to anyone with ADHD or anyone that is close to someone with ADHD. We are often misunderstood and mislabeled, but this book permits the opportunity for our reality to be communicated and validated.
Rosier offers true and tangible resources, tactics, and skills to better aid in the day-to-day functioning of those that live life under the blanket of ADHD. In all my research, education, and exposure to ADHD, I have never encountered a narrative where the author was so spot on in describing the thought patterns, behaviors, and experiences of someone with ADHD. This not only came from the fact that the author herself has it, but of the clear way that she has devoted her life to understanding and bettering the lives of those with it.
I'd highly recommend this book to anyone with ADHD or anyone that is close to someone with ADHD. We are often misunderstood and mislabeled, but this book permits the opportunity for our reality to be communicated and validated.
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May 20, 2025Wartościowa lektura, jeśli chce się zacząć świadomą autopsychoedukację.
Doceniam pytania, scenariusze i ćwiczenia, bo sama bym na nie nie wpadła, a gdybym nawet wpadła, wątpiłabym, że są przydatne i sensowne. Dzięki nim mam pod ręką punkty zaczepienia, kotwice, które w trudniejsze dni pozwalają pokonać gonitwę myśli, przegrzanie mózgu i poczucie braku sprawczości.
Doceniam pytania, scenariusze i ćwiczenia, bo sama bym na nie nie wpadła, a gdybym nawet wpadła, wątpiłabym, że są przydatne i sensowne. Dzięki nim mam pod ręką punkty zaczepienia, kotwice, które w trudniejsze dni pozwalają pokonać gonitwę myśli, przegrzanie mózgu i poczucie braku sprawczości.
August 31, 2025
A great start to figuring out how to tackle ADHD and accepting yourself for who you are. This gave me a lot of hope ❤️🩹
March 14, 2023
This is a very useful book for navigating and understanding emotionality as it pertains to ADHD. In particular, I appreciated the explanation of divergent and convergent thinking. I also really liked the emphasis on the importance of sleep. Overall, this was a very interesting and insightful read. I will be recommending it to my students and integrating it into how I work with the students with ADHD that I coach.
My minor beefs and queefs:
- The audiobook for this is not good. Given that this is a book about ADHD, you would think that the author would prioritize it being read well. The reader was excessively robotic, with strange emphasis on various words. One thing that kept rubbing me absolutely the wrong way was the way the reader read ADHD: ae-dee—AECH-dee. It literally made me feel crazy every time she said it like that to the point where I gaslit myself and googled it to make sure I wasn’t the one saying it weird. I know it’s not necessarily the author’s job how the audiobook sounds, but given that many people with ADHD prefer audiobooks (myself included) it feels like a ridiculous oversight.
- This is subtly, and at times overtly, a religious book. The author references taking time to pray, going to church, and many of the examples of couples seem to involve a woman working from home to take care of the children. Very white picket fence. Honestly, there isn’t an objective problem but it isn’t something I like personally, and I know it’s going to rub some of my non-Christian students the wrong way. It was also recorded by a company called “Christian Audio” which makes me wonder if the author sacrificed quality (see point 1) to get her work in the ears of Christian readers.
These are small points, but I wanted to make it very clear that those are the only two things keeping it back from being a five star book. I learned a lot and I think it’s right up there with the better literature on this disorder.
My minor beefs and queefs:
- The audiobook for this is not good. Given that this is a book about ADHD, you would think that the author would prioritize it being read well. The reader was excessively robotic, with strange emphasis on various words. One thing that kept rubbing me absolutely the wrong way was the way the reader read ADHD: ae-dee—AECH-dee. It literally made me feel crazy every time she said it like that to the point where I gaslit myself and googled it to make sure I wasn’t the one saying it weird. I know it’s not necessarily the author’s job how the audiobook sounds, but given that many people with ADHD prefer audiobooks (myself included) it feels like a ridiculous oversight.
- This is subtly, and at times overtly, a religious book. The author references taking time to pray, going to church, and many of the examples of couples seem to involve a woman working from home to take care of the children. Very white picket fence. Honestly, there isn’t an objective problem but it isn’t something I like personally, and I know it’s going to rub some of my non-Christian students the wrong way. It was also recorded by a company called “Christian Audio” which makes me wonder if the author sacrificed quality (see point 1) to get her work in the ears of Christian readers.
These are small points, but I wanted to make it very clear that those are the only two things keeping it back from being a five star book. I learned a lot and I think it’s right up there with the better literature on this disorder.
September 30, 2024
Some sections were eye opening and others infuriating. God is referenced twice and I fail to see how that belongs in a book about understanding ADHD
January 21, 2024
Some of the info felt redundant to what I already know (like different symptoms/executive function type info), but a lot of it was new to me about actual brain chemistry and the ways our emotional dysregulation is actually a huge factor in how we mask or overcompensate for our lack of executive function skills. Enjoyed learning some of the strategies and frameworks and will definitely be revisiting the tools, but some of them fell flat for me (I didn't understand the house/yard/fence chapter- felt like an empty or incomplete metaphor for me- or maybe just too ethereal/non practical).
Biggest takeaways are: think of a metaphor for how ADHD shows up for YOU (mine is like a neverending game of whack a mole), balancing your solve-it grid (gotta figure out my GREENS!), and not letting myself be emotionally manipulated into executive functioning (or lack thereof).
Biggest takeaways are: think of a metaphor for how ADHD shows up for YOU (mine is like a neverending game of whack a mole), balancing your solve-it grid (gotta figure out my GREENS!), and not letting myself be emotionally manipulated into executive functioning (or lack thereof).
January 17, 2025
Thank you to my therapist who told me to read this lol 🤣. I highly recommend this to anyone who has ADHD or loves someone with ADHD.
This book gives great advice on how to actually implement the strategies mentioned within the book, into your daily life. It spells it out for you very clearly on what steps to take. Like actual numbered steps on different practices to help you manage your ADHD.
I found this super helpful and bought a physical copy so I can keep referring back to certain chapters I found particularly useful!
This book gives great advice on how to actually implement the strategies mentioned within the book, into your daily life. It spells it out for you very clearly on what steps to take. Like actual numbered steps on different practices to help you manage your ADHD.
I found this super helpful and bought a physical copy so I can keep referring back to certain chapters I found particularly useful!
June 11, 2024
This book was like looking in a mirror 🫠 but in the best way! I don’t have very clinical thinking so this book validated in a very easy to understand way. If you’ve been struggling or feel like you may be with this issue, read this!
June 9, 2023
Very helpful! Recommend for anyone with symptoms of ADHD or their loved ones
January 23, 2024
Definitely not a super intersectional approach but I learned some stuff!
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