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Journeys through ADDulthood – Sari Solden

Book review

Shared adult ADHD experiences

Sari Solden, ADHD herself, describes how her own absent-mindedness and disorganization have not prevented her from being a successful lecturer and counsellor. She describes the frustrations of four “example” people with ADHD, who struggle with different challenges.

This book is about overcoming ADHD Adult challenges using a three-step approach:
  • focus on the brain
  • then focus on the self
  • finally focus on the “self in the world”
Solden recommends seeking help from others for difficult or uninteresting tasks like paperwork or cleaning.

Solden also covers the “grief cycle” of Adults upon discovering they have ADD: relief in finally identifying the reason for life-long problems and differences, upset and anxiety because a diagnosis naturally brings with it a change in self-image, frustration with the long delay in diagnosis and with working through the partial treatments available, learning to cope with ADD, building a new identity and life whilst putting the past and the present into context.
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ADHD Coach, Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours and 20 years of experience in coaching over 600 ADHD executives, ADHD business professionals and ADHD creatives. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. He is an ADHD specialist backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales and to running a few software start-ups. 

Further reading

ADHD at work
Well researched, well written, clear overview of ADHD as a disorder
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Much of the advice reads as if written for ADHD adults, but then it probably was written for ADDicts
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The first ADHD auto-biography, lots to relate to
ADHD at work
Many of with ADHD reach a point of being stuck, unsure where to go and unable to move anyways. This book has a unique and helpful prespective.
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A helpful guide for a parent helping their teen ADHD daughter
ADHD at work
A guide to helping ADHD kids, though a little too focussed on "bad" behaviour
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