A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers Kindle Edition

In my life previous to my current one as a professional organizer, I was a women’s studies professor. As I grew my organizing company I worked with intelligent and professional women with ADHD who expressed shame, despair, and regret about the condition of their home (messy), their timeliness (often late), and their lists (usually long, rarely completed). Their anxiety didn’t mirror their male counterparts and I set out to find out why. I stumbled upon Dr. Sari Solden’s seminal work, “Women and Attention Deficit Disorder” (1995) and happily discovered a gendered analysis of ADHD.And today, more than 20 years later, having just completed Solden’s latest effort (along with co-author, Dr. Michelle Frank), I can’t recommend highly enough, “A Radical Guide to Women with ADHD,” (New Harbinger, 2019).The “radical” component of this book has everything to do with complete and total self-acceptance of one’s ADHD brain. To get there, Solden and Frank divide the book into 3 sections – Bold, Brave, and Bright – each containing strategies to unpack and un-layer that which can keep a good woman down.This is a workbook, and a journal with excellent writing prompts. Chapter 2, “Begin Bravely” offers a broad reading of how “fear” undermines quality of life. The authors write, that the link that “binds your challenges to your worth” is far more damaging “than any symptom of inattention could every be.” (18)The middle section on shining brightly contain exercises for releasing fear, updating dreams, moving into wholeness, and identifying core values. The final 3rd, on living boldly, encourages readers to dump the “qualifiers” (e.g., sorry, just, actually) … words that fly out of our mouths only to have the effect of diminishing or dismissing our thoughts, beliefs, opinions, and standpoints.Although I am not a woman with ADHD; what I learned in “A Radical Guide to Women with ADHD” will make me a better professional. I work with, and know, A LOT of women with ADHD and I’m excited to tell them about this book.

I preordered this book, eagerly waited for it, and then...eh. I am a librarian, and I read almost every new book on ADHD shortly after publication. I really didn’t learn anything new. The workbook format was interesting and ADHD friendly. Some of the advice like money saving tips was more realistic and doable than in other books which seem to say hiring a coach will fix everything.If you are newly diagnosed, this isn’t a bad book. If you have trouble accepting who you are, this isn’t a bad book. It just didn’t work for me.

4 stars because it looks to be really good but not 5 because having ADHD I haven’t gotten around to it yet partly the because I don’t have the time or focus to do all that work.

I’ve read a lot of the ADD books. I do not enjoy self help books. But I really liked this book. I’d say this is my favorite book on ADHD. Honestly, I want to buy a second copy to give to my therapist so I can get support for the written exercises.

I started reading a couple books after diagnosis that were more physiologically driven and they made me feel more overwhelmed and worse about my differences. I picked this book up from the library and purchased a copy for myself half way through the first chapter. It spoke to my emotional self which I feel I needed to address first and foremost. Some parts of the book are difficult to work through and I really had to sit with the emotions that surfaced. It is a "there is nothing wrong with you" book in a sea of "do these things to survive in our culture" books. I highly recommend buying this book if you want to focus on a lifetime of masking and the shame and negative self talk that comes along with undiagnosed ADHD.

This book appealed to me because I always thought I had a touch of ADHD, but am basically functioning without professional treatment.The main theme of this book is to accept yourself exactly as you are, as a way of controlling ADHD, along with any meds you may be taking - you don't need to "fix" yourself, .The book encourages the reader to follow their internal compass and use "mindful authenticity" to work around your issues and have more control over things that distract you & trigger your emotions, which cause undesirable coping mechanisms like impulsiveness, over-thinking minor decisions, avoiding cleaning up, leaving unfinished projects and clutter wherever you go.I would recommend the simple and positive approach this book has, which makes it acessible to many people.It does not downplay professional help, but shows what an individual can do to help themselves to achieve the life they deserve.

I like the book, I enjoyed the reading. I would recommend to those women as well, who are not struggeling with ADHD. I expected the book helps to live your life more fully, when you have ADHD, but this was not the case. It helps you to confirm if you have ADHD or not. It makes you understand, you are not alone, there are many out there like you, which is a big relief. I could feel myself connected with the writer, even I am not sure she has/had problem with ADHD. The writer highlight it is important to accept yourself, to accept that you are different. There was no advice in the book how to live a better life, it just had a big emphaty for women with ADHD, and confirmed how it can be hard sometimes, which was actually nice to "hear", as women with ADHD are lack of emphaty I think.

Extremely helpfulEasy to read & understand with small bitesize extracts to fill in.Very informative & insightful

If your english is sufficient to get all the content and you or one of the girls / ladies / women OR men (hang on guys, there is things to profit from in it for us as well) i highly recommend reading this.The authors blow a breach in many a topic.The first and obvious still is an issue - even in the so called first world."Women got ADHD".A sentence that STILL causes 50 - 60 % of all psychiatrists and 70% of psychologists to either laugh or yawn.The hints in here - find your skills, find friends with matching skills, team up (in business or leisure) are worth the books price times tenthousand.As for the "wtf should a man do with this book?" - i can hear you.Remember having issues beeing part of teams?Remember beeing picked the latest and moist likely not for your preferred position in team topics?Well, here you can find answers, guys.

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