A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD

Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honour your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity. If you are a woman with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you've probably known-all your life-that you're different. As girls, we learn which behaviours, thinking, learning and working styles are preferred, which are accepted and tolerated and which are frowned upon. These preferences are communicated in innumerable ways-from media and books to our first-grade classroom to conversations with our classmates and parents. Over the course of a lifetime, women with ADHD learn through various channels that the way they think, work, speak, relate, and act does not match up with the preferred way of being in the world. In short, they learn that difference is bad. And, since these women know that they are different, they learn that they are bad. It's time for a change. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD is the first guided workbook for women with ADHD designed to break the cycle of negative self-talk and shame-based narratives that stem from the common and limiting belief that brain differences are character flaws. In this unique guide, you'll find a ground-breaking approach that blends traditional ADHD treatment with contemporary treatment methods, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), to help you untangle yourself from the beliefs that have kept you from reaching your potential in life. If you're ready to develop a strong, bold, and confident sense of self, embrace your unique brain-based differences, and cultivate your individual strengths, this step-by-step workbook will help guide the way.

Vorwort
Women with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often feel misunderstood and experience a sense of alienation because of their differences. This radical guide empowers readers to challenge the cultural stigma and deeply internalized shame of being a woman living with an invisible disorder.

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Psychotherapist Sari Solden, MS, has counselled adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for thirty years. She is author of the pioneering books Women with Attention Deficit Disorder and Journeys Through ADDulthood, as well as a prominent keynote speaker at national and international conferences. She serves on the professional advisory board of the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association and is a past recipient of their award for outstanding service by a helping professional. Solden's areas of specialization include women's issues, inattentive ADHD and the emotional consequences and healing process for adults who grew up with undiagnosed ADHD.
Michelle Frank, PsyD, is a well-regarded clinical psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, education and empowerment of individuals with ADHD. She draws from cognitive behavioural therapies, mindfulness-based practices and psychoeducational approaches based in the latest research to help individuals with ADHD live fulfilling, empowered lives. Frank is vice president of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), the only non-profit organization dedicated to helping adults with ADHD. She speaks nationally on issues related to ADHD, neurodiversity and women's empowerment..