Tamara Phd Rosier - Your Brains Not Broken

Tamara is your new best friend. She is smart and funny and has a lot of good ideas to help you better understand your ADHD. With her help, youll create a more fulfilling life by getting more things done and feeling good about yourself while you do it. Trust me, you will love this book.

Ari Tuckman , PsyD, CST, author of four books on ADHD, including ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship

Your Brains Not Broken is the best kind of ADHD book. You can open it up to any random page and find practical, actionable ideas. And those ideas are shared in a relatable, easy-to-understand style that makes you want to apply them! Read this book!

Brendan Mahan , MEd, MS, host of the ADHD Essentials podcast

Love the approach Your Brains Not Broken takes with ADHD. After my ADHD diagnosis, I devoured books about what science thought was happening in my brain. And I compared that to how it manifested in my life. I soon realized adult ADHD is not one-size-fits-all. Many of the ADHD descriptions didnt apply. Others were close but not quite right. And big pieces of the puzzle were missing. For years, the emotional aspect of ADHD was, at best, mentioned in passing. At worst, they ignored it completely. Yet the emotional volatility related to my ADHD has cost me the most. In relationships, in jobs, in most aspects of my life. What I discovered in Your Brains Not Broken is how entwined my emotions, and the energy that comes from them, are in everything I do! Even better, theres something I can do to take control. And now you can discover what you can do too!

Duane Gordon , president of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association

What joy, what relief are in these pages of hope from the expertise of Dr. Rosier. There are clear, sound strategies for navigating ADHD for you or a loved one. This means a new freedom, a new understanding, and a new plan of hope!

Dr. Gregg Jantz , author of 40 books and founder of The Center a Place of HOPE

Too many books on ADHD present a simplified paint-by-numbers approach to ADHD. Tamara brings a robust palette of colors illustrating the multifaceted hues and textures of ADHD. Her writing style is engaging and entertaining with a balance of compelling and thought-provoking stories, relevant science, and brilliant and original tools and strategies that can be put into play immediately. Make space on your bookshelf for this fresh take on ADHD!

Cameron Gott , PCC, executive ADHD coach and cohost of the Translating ADHD podcast

If you or someone you know struggles with ADHD and you want something more than medication can provide, then this book is for you. Medications for ADHD are like glasses for near-sightednessthey help with focus but dont teach people how to read. Treating ADHD with medications alone leave millions still struggling to function with everyday life. Your Brains Not Broken is the best book I have ever read on teaching people with ADHD (and their family members) how to readhow to understand their own brain and develop effective strategies to succeed. As a psychiatrist who has treated thousands of people with ADHD, I believe this book provides a comprehensive toolkit for success. I recommend it!

Timothy R. Jennings , MD, DFAPA, author of The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life , president of Come and Reason Ministries, and past president of the Tennessee and Southern Psychiatric Associations

Dr. Rosier tactfully addresses the very real and painful emotions that most children and adults with ADHD experience. Dr. Rosier, through examples of her own experiences, shares with us the insights and mindset shifts that helped her cope with the big emotions.

Caroline Maguire , MEd, author of Why Will No One Play With Me?

Dr. Rosier does a masterful job of giving language to the experience of being an adult with ADHD. She uses concrete, relatable examples to explain the difficulties adults with ADHD often experience and then provides practical strategies for successfully navigating these difficulties that can be easily adapted to fit a variety of circumstances. This is an excellent resource for adults with ADHD and for anyone who wants to better understand someone struggling with adult ADHD.

Jean Holthaus , LISW, LMSW, author of Managing Worry and Anxiety and When Anxiety Roars

2021 by Tamara Rosier

Published by Revell

a division of Baker Publishing Group

PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

www.revellbooks.com

Ebook edition created 2021

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

ISBN 978-1-4934-3198-4

The names and details of the people and situations described in this book have been changed or presented in composite form in order to ensure the privacy of those with whom the author has worked.

To the ADHD posseBrooke, Kaitlynn, Megan, and Tom. Thank you for your daily inspiration. Were all in this together. To the neurotypicalsLauren, Adam, and Ridge.
Thank you for your love, your patience, and
lending us your prefrontal cortices every once in a while. CONTENTS Endorsements Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: No More Pretending 1. And Then Ping! Goes My Brain 2. Elves, Dirty Babies, and Lucille Ball 3. The Case of the Missing Butler 4. Following the Rabbit 5. The Monsters We Face 6. Malicious Motivation 7. Solving Motivational Murders 8. Living on the Grid 9. Predictable Patterns 10. Climbing the Ladder: Cultivating Emotional Health 11. Welcome Home: Creating Healthy Boundaries 12. Dancing through the Day: Hacks for Adulting 13. The Island of Misfit Toys: Parenting the ADHD Child 14. Now What? Writing Your ADHD Story Appendix A: Your Life on the Grid Appendix B: Writing Your ADHD Story Appendix C: If You Love Someone Who Has ADHD Appendix D: Resources for Those with ADHD Appendix E: What Is ADHD Coaching? Notes About the Author Back Ads Back Cover ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

While writing this book, I slipped into all of the malicious motivational snares that I write about in chapter 6avoidance, anxiety, procrastination, anger, shame, and self-loathing. I want to thank my family and others who helped me confront those manipulative scoundrels.

To my husband, Tom Emigh: You believe that properly supported, I can do anything. You are my proper support. Thank you so much for listening as I worked out my ideas.

To my children with ADHD, Kaitlynn Tefft, Brooke Rosier, and Megan Lorenz: Thank you for all that you have taught me about your experiences with ADHD. It has been a privilege to walk beside you as you matured. I am so relieved that you all grew up to be the beautiful adults you are. You kept me guessing for a little bit.

To my child who doesnt have ADHD and kept asking if she could be in this book, Lauren Rosier: Here you are. I study you when I want to understand how a neurotypical thinks. Thank you for your consistency, love, and patience with those of us who are consistently inconsistent.

To my son-in-law, Adam Lorenz: Thank you for your encouragement to write a book proposal and for believing that I had something to say. Your encouraging texts chased away the malicious motivators.

To my writing coach, Lissa Halls Johnson: Thank you for convincing me to abandon my academic-toned voice for something real. Your gentle prodding helped me develop more confidence. You were this books doula.

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