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The Midlife Mind Series · Book 5
The ADHD Workbook for Women Over 40
A No-Nonsense CBT Guide to Focus, Follow-Through, and Finally Understanding Your Brain
It was never laziness. You were working from the wrong manual.
For decades, you may have been called scattered, late, or not living up to your potential, by teachers, bosses, and perhaps most often by yourself. Then midlife increased the load, your old coping strategies stopped working, and ADHD became a possibility. This CBT-based workbook is written for women meeting a diagnosis, or a strong suspicion, in midlife. It draws on executive-function research and offers tools that fit the brain you have.
Inside this book
- Why midlife can unmask ADHD in women: masking, mental load, and the hormone-dopamine link few people explain
- The external brain: one capture tool, one calendar, and one fifteen-minute weekly sweep
- Tools for time blindness: your estimation multiplier, T-minus exit alarms, and the one-more-thing rule
- ADHD-friendly organization: visible beats hidden, easy beats perfect, and doom boxes get appointments
- Thought records for shame spirals and forty years of lazy verdicts
- Starting tools that meet you where you are: five-minute doors, body doubling, and interest-led design
- A 30-day scaffold that includes leaving and returning, because that is how durable ADHD systems work
Educational self-help, not a diagnostic instrument, and neutral on treatment choices. Includes a full chapter on pursuing assessment as a midlife woman.
- Author
- Ellis Hartwell
- Series
- The Midlife Mind Series · Book 5
- Written for
- Women over 40
- Editions
- Paperback
- Trim size
- 8.5 × 11 in
- Publisher
- Tsunami Reading
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