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SAD light for winter blues

Light to help your sleep and your mood

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Vitamin D to lift your mood

Probably the most important vitamin for your health and wellbeing

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What makes us happy?

We can take simple actions to improve our happiness.

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Theanine reduces anxiety and improves sleep

The best supplement for ADHD issues with anxiety and sleep

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Delivered from Distraction – Hallowell & Ratey

The fantastic, follow up to the original best guide to adult ADHD

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Is it You, Me or Adult ADD – Gina Pera

A helpful guide for couples where one partner is ADHD

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I Know What I Want, But It’s Not This – Julie Jansen

A career coach takes you through a series of exercises to help you find what you want (and don't) from work

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Reinventing Your Life – Young & Klosko

If you are stuck in life this book has some very helpful advice and tools to get you back and functioning again

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Irrationality – Stuart Sutherland

It never ceases to amaze me how irrational we (humans) all are

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States of Denial – Stanley Cohen

Not sure we do denial in our matrix-interconnected ADHD minds but an interesting read

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Mismatch – Gluckman & Hanson

Social and technical evolution seems to have out -paced our ability to keep up

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Happiness: A guide to developing Life’s most important skill – Ricard

How to develop inner resources for a sense of happiness and fulfilment that is not dependent on outer circumstances

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Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

A profound insight into how meaning gives strength, hope and happiness

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Dealing with Depression Naturally – Syd Baumel

With alarmingly increasing rates of depression in the World and SSRIs poor results, better to seek a cause than manage the symptoms

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Positive Psychology in Practice – Linley Joseph

A seriously heavy and comprehensive guide to happiness

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The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem – Nathaniel Branden

Low self esteem comes as part of the package with ADHD, this book has excellent advice in building self esteem

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The Road Less Travelled – M. Scott Peck

A classic, a profound and helpful life guide. The New Psychology of love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”., by M. Scott Peck, a former clinical psychiatrist who shares his insightful client experiences.

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The Art of Happiness at Work – Dalai Lama & Cutler

Keep an optimistic outlook, calm mind and a realistic perspective, grounded advice from the Dalai Lama

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Authentic Happiness – Martin E. P. Seligman

The original, the brilliant book that kicked off the new field of positive psychology, the study of happiness

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The Antidepressant Solution – Joseph Glenmullen

Many SSRIs are ineffective and problematic, sometimes proving very difficult to stop taking. This books shows the smart way to do so

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No Mind Left Behind – Adam Cox

Somewhat clinical perspective by a clinical psychologist but does have some helpful suggestions

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6. Negative thought patterns

What do you pay attention to? Interview with David Giwerc, President ADD Coaching Academy Andrew: You’re right David, after my years with depression and feeling stuck, I started to make a series of changes to my lifestyle and my outlook. I made new decisions that affected my health, wellbeing and attitude, to be more positive and […]

Interview on hope

9. What we pay attention to grows

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow Interview with David Giwerc, President ADD Coaching Academy Andrew: It’s important to wake up and start with a pleasant ease-in to the day. ADHD adults are emotional, so if the start to our day isn’t a positive one, a day can turn into a series of distractions and avoidances. I see mornings as […]

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13. Why seek help?

Find the right help Interview with David Giwerc, President ADD Coaching Academy Andrew: In many ways society conditions us to ask for help with physical challenges but not with mental. I’m quite tall, 6’4″, and I am occasionally asked to reach for something off the top shelf in the supermarket. No one is concerned, there is no judgement […]

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14. Final thoughts

Find an ADHD coach Interview with David Giwerc, President ADD Coaching Academy Andrew: So many Adults with ADHD that I speak with in the UK and Europe are only recently diagnosed. Do you have one final message for somebody who’s newly self-diagnosed or medically-diagnosed, or who maybe just figured there are ADHD from a friend or a web […]

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Finding the good in people we love

A wonderful talk about forgiveness

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Natural remedies for ADHD

What else can I do to help my delicate ADHD brain?

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Gratitude grows

Gratitude proven as effective as anti-depressants in lifting your mood

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ADDictions

If we are ADHD we are at great risk of addiction, and it's not surprising

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Ten steps to a healthy ADHD diet

We are what we eat. Choose the foods that boost your brain

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Controlling our emotions

We don't inhibit our ADHD emotions, so life is usually a roller coaster

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Learning to be happy

Positive psychology, a new scientific field is just a decade old. Finally we are studying happiness,

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See your ADHD reflected in others

Understand your own ADHD by seeing it reflected in others

Being ADHD

Reading to work

One of my weirdest ADHD strategies

ADHD at work

Novelty lessons from the camel market

Travel is peak stimulation for my novelty seeking mind

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Getting past the ADHD label

The label ADHD helps more than it hinders Once we get past the fear of a label, there is a lot of benefit in knowing and accepting our ADHD, much better than a life in denial or misunderstanding. My life would have been very different had I known about my ADHD from an early age: […]

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