Embracing Your ADHD Brain: An Actually Helpful Guide for Teens - Paperback

by Danielle Sullivan (Author)

A solution-focused guide for ADHD teens on how to work with their brains, not against them!

Embracing Your ADHD Brain is a neurodiversity-affirming self-help guide for teens, written by a certified neurodiversity coach. By helping teens recognize how outdated social stigma can affect their sense of self, this book empowers readers to overcome internalized shame and start working with their strengths and values to build the life they want.

With warm, inspiring language and an ADHD-friendly layout, Embracing Your ADHD Brain helps readers understand how their brains work and make the most of their strengths. Inside, teen ADHDers will find tools and strategies for:

• Emotional regulation: Identify and manage big feelings, create a feelings dictionary, and build calming routines.
• Executive functioning: Use visual aids, structured breaks, body doubling, and systems to organize tasks and homework.
• Sensory processing: Handle sensory overwhelm and improve awareness of body needs (like hunger, movement, and rest).
• Strength-based living: Uncover personal strengths and use them to overcome challenges.
• Social skills and communication: Develop active listening, express needs, and navigate tough conversations.
• Motivation and rewards: Boost dopamine, use external rewards, and stay engaged with challenging tasks.
• Problem-solving: Tackle obstacles creatively and confidently.
• Values-based decision-making: Identify personal values and leverage them for motivation and goal-setting.

This resource offers readers evidence-based strategies from positive psychology, strengths-based coaching, and more, helping teens understand, own, and thrive with ADHD.

Author Biography

Danielle Sullivan is a multiply-certified neurodiversity coach and autistic ADHDer who centers positive psychology, solution-focused approaches, and trauma-informed learning to help neurodivergent humans succeed. She is the author of Embracing Your ADHD Brain. After her eldest child was diagnosed autistic, Danielle was also diagnosed around age 30. In looking for resources for neurodivergent parents, she found very little and began producing the "Neurodiverging Podcast" to develop and offer resources for others like her, who have kids like hers. She later founded Neurodiverging Coaching, an equity-centered coaching platform for neurodivergent people. Danielle lives near Denver, Colorado.