Proven strategies for strengthening executive functioning skills and overcoming adult ADHD symptoms
Executive functioning skills—including focus, organization, stress management, and more—are critical to succeeding in all aspects of your life. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with ADHD or you’ve lived with it your entire life, you know that developing these skills can be a challenge. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build this mental skill set and take control of your ADHD.
Make real, sustainable changes with practical guidance and activities for sharpening your memory and attention, learning to plan and organize, strengthening your mental flexibility, enhancing your emotional regulation, improving your impulse control, and living your best life.
This adult ADHD book includes:
- Executive functioning overview—Learn what executive functioning is, how it relates to ADHD, and how these exercises can help you develop it.
- Solutions for all settings—Discover actionable advice for managing ADHD symptoms at home, at work, and in relationships.
- Self-assessments—Identify your personal strengths and weaknesses with quick self-evaluations.
Don’t let ADHD symptoms hold you back. Gain the skills you need to achieve your goals with help from Thriving with Adult ADHD.
Ive underlined and highlighted so so much of this book, it's wild. It is very validating to learn that many struggles are part of my ADHD and not just me being a failure of a person. But don't buy the book for validation; buy it because it is full of information and coping mechanisms that, if put into practice, make like more bearable, less daunting, less overwhelming. There are exercises/challenges to do at the end of each section, because it's important to DO things to learn rather than simply reading, particularly with attention span issues! And because all brai s are different, so these exercises help you realize the unique features of YOUR own ADHD so you can adjust your habits accordingly.
No, my life isn't fixed now, every day is a massive challenge and it sucks, frankly. But I'm really glad I found this book; it sucks a bit less now.
My suggestion? Mark the book, but don’t read it—that is, until you comprehend you’ve got enough down time to gulp it all down like a tall glass of ice cold lemonade on a hot and sweaty summer day. The reason I suggest this is because there is information that you’ve no doubt heard before. But there’s also new information you’ll miss if you aren’t paying attention.
This book is short enough for a voracious reader to easily conquer in two days, if they haven’t finished it in one. Myself? (Since you’ve asked.) I made it a third of the way through before another book captured my attention BEFORE I solved the dilemma. But, I’ll come back and finish—promise! 🫣
I especially like the exercises designed to allow the reader to practice strategies using their own notebook and other devices. So many books give suggestions, but this is unique in giving actual assignments to practice the techniques so that they are reinforced and actually learned. In fact, the suggestions are great for anyone wanting to become more successful in managing information and accomplishing goals.
I’ve read a number of books on ADHD, and this is one of the most useful ones I’ve ever found. I’ll be recommending it to clients and therapists alike.