Posts Tagged ‘ADHD’
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers
Sari Solden, MS and Michelle Frank, PsyD in A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD, a New Harbinger self-help workbook, teach self-validation. They approach their mission from deeply intimate perspectives: both women live with ADHD, and both have dedicated their professional lives to supporting ADHD-abled people. The authors examine many probable life-shaping aspects of an…
Read MoreADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life Judith Kolberg Kathleen Nadeau
Click on the title ADD is ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau to see my video review of one of the best books ever for people with ADD..
Read MoreA Plea to the Overly-Ambitious, or, Clients, Let Me Do My Laundry
A plea to the overly-ambitious My client cancelled 1/2 hour before the appointment. I’d already been traveling for 1/2 hour, was 1/2 way there, in such heavy rain I didn’t feel quite safe. My client’s cancellation was extremely reasonable: s/he’d had a medical procedure the day before and was still feeling shaky. This wasn’t a…
Read MoreWomen with Attention Deficit Disorder Sari Solden
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder by Sari Solden had a powerful influence on me years before I became an Organizer, after a close friend asked me to read it so I could better understand her world. And now I can share a more informed opinion of the masterpiece. Women with Attention Deficit Disorder, Sari…
Read MoreMarilyn Paul, PhD Get Food on the Table Without Making Such a Mess
Marilyn Paul, PhD, author of An Oasis in Time and It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys, will be offering her unique, warm perspective on pleasurable living Get Food on the Table Without Making Such a Mess: In the Kitchen and on the Planet It’s surprising, even shocking, to discover…
Read MoreComedy – ADD/ADHD – Brilliant
The Holderness Family – Comedy – ADD/ADHD – Brilliant. This loving, extroverted, outrageously creative family is giving a gift to the world, finding astonishingly inventive ways to cope during life in shelter-in-place. Penn Holderness, the Mr. of the household, is very open about his ADD-ableness and a splendid example of a person who uses it…
Read More“Controversial” because he needed to publish a book?
This is a review of the 2012 Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD by Matthew Smith, a chaired faculty member of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. My first reaction to this book is loathing. Dr. Smith’s two basic premises are: (1) because CIBA (now Novartis) encouraged the potential over-prescription of Ritalin as…
Read MoreDr. Edward Hallowell Special Event Thursday October 18 2018 in Bellevue
Hope & Resiliency Through Challenge A SPECIAL EVENT ABOUT CHESS, ADHD, EMPOWERMENT AND MORE! Join us for this special event all about embracing our differences, rising to challenges and unwrapping our unique gifts. World renowned author and ADHD advocate Dr. Edward Hallowell is teaming up with Elliott Neff, National Chess Master and founder of…
Read MoreSmart but Stuck by Thomas E. Brown
Dr. Brown is a clinician and Professor with Yale University who specializes in the treatment of people with attention and related disorders. He is an insightful, highly creative and patient healer. In Smart but Stuck Emotions in Teens and Adults with ADHD, he offers portraits of 11 people suffering because of an overlooked, underappreciated facet…
Read MoreMore Attention, Less Deficit Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD by Ari Tuckman
I’m puzzled by my reaction to this book. Ari Tuckman is a renowned, compassionate ADHD clinician. I intend to take some of his on-line courses, offered through my professional societies. All of his advice in this book is excellent, built upon many years of experience. It’s also written in an extremely ADHD-appropriate structure – short…
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