BOOK REVIEWS

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – Edmund J. Bourne

Book review

Practical advice for common ADHD issues

This book by Edmund Bourne is quite specific and practical. It has chapters on nutrition, exercise, visualization, cognitive therapy, mistaken beliefs, emotional needs, spiritual angst, and medication. A diagnostic questionnaire in the first chapter helps you to determine which chapters will help you the most. It is interactive with checklists and simple prompts such as “check all that apply”, True-False, “rate from 1-5” etc, which is easy to do even if you are a little resistant! Every chapter ends with a check-list of homework.

Many books on depression and anxiety focus on knowledge and less on inspiring on change. But knowledge and insight are  seldom enough and helpfully this workbook lets you assume responsibility for your own recovery and gives effective and simple tools to do it. Definitely a good place to start for anyone with anxiety difficulties of any kind.
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ADHD Coach, Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over ten thousand hours and fifteen years of experience in coaching ADHD executives, business professionals and creatives. His expertise with ADHD is personal, with decades of his own experience, bringing up an ADHD child, running a large support group and in coaching clients often for years He has published his writing via this website and has ADHD online courses in development. His business expertise comes from a twenty years career in software, from programming, through marketing, sales and running a few start-ups.

Further reading

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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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Sympathetic and helpful advice for adults with ADHD, from manager of ADHD clinic, with ADHD himself
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Vey personal perspective from a mum and her ADHD son
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A guide to helping ADHD kids, though a little too focussed on "bad" behaviour
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An exploration on the adult experience of ADHD and using Sari's three step approach to self-help
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A deep dive into executive functions and how profoundly they affect our lives
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