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

Difference becomes deviance and deviance becomes sin in a society preoccupied with normality.”

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to form a compassionate, engaging, radically accepting, unconditionally loving relationship with your core self.

the truth of who you are as a complex human being doing the best you can

ADHD inevitably impacts your sense of identity in these three areas:
Your core sense of self
Your feelings about your brain

Acceptance does not mean resignation. It means doing away with judgment and moving into a place of self-respect and integration of the reality at hand

Radical acceptance is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment’s experience. Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is

Our book is called a “radical” guide for women with ADHD to emphasize the simple but “radical” idea that instead of trying to change and fix herself, a woman with ADHD can simply learn to be herself

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change” (Rogers 1961, 17)