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

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Because adults with ADHD have more negative self-talk than those without the condition, it’s important to take a look at how you’re talking to yourself (Mitchell et al.

In this unique guide, you’ll find a groundbreaking 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.You might have experienced automatic, critical, even downright mean self-talk as well as intense and uncomfortable emotional experiences during this stage of the journey. And we have found that colluding with the desire to fundamentally fix yourself, your life, and your brain is incredibly harmful to the process of ultimately finding the peace and joy you most desire. After all, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear” (Redmoon 1991). Often at this stage, ADHD differences and the behaviors that result are assumed to be character flaws. In particular, these self-statements relate to how you may see yourself, not just your experience of living with invisible differences.

From our current vantage point, we can see that Solden’s bold and honest words changed the landscape of ADHD forever.Sari and Michelle are your super-smart, empathic friends who have been there before you and want to save you a lot of unnecessary suffering. Michelle Frank, PsyD, is a well-regarded clinical psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, education, and empowerment of individuals with ADHD.

Surviving Bravely: Life Before Untangling When ADHD is undiagnosed, untreated, unmanaged, or misunderstood, the challenges associated with this brain difference are overwhelming.These management functions of the brain can affect your ability to activate yourself enough to begin a task, to sustain focus once you start the task, and to stick with it when your energy or interest wanes—and that’s just for starters! The more we avoid that which brings discomfort, the more likely we are to keep having that very discomfort (Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson 2016). From this courageous place of honoring yourself, you can begin to take new actions from a foundation of empowerment and careful discernment of your unique needs and desires. You and the World Living with ADHD can be tough, and within its inherent difficulties are the seeds for either self-realization or self-constriction.