Description
Written by neurodivergent psychologists for neurodivergent readers. This empowering workbook offers self-compassion skills to help you embrace who you are and thrive.
As an autistic person or neurodivergent individual with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may sometimes feel as if you’re living in a world that wasn’t designed for you. You may have sensory sensitivities, social difficulties, struggles with executive functioning, sleep issues, depression, anxiety, burnout and meltdowns, and trauma from a lifetime of marginalization and microaggressions.
If you are struggling with your neurodivergent identity, know that you aren’t alone. Whether you were diagnosed as a child or are just now realizing your difference, this workbook can help you move beyond the internalized message that there is something wrong with you, so you can embrace who you really are and manage stress before it leads to neurodivergent burnout.
The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook for Autism and ADHD offers acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and self-compassion skills tailored to the needs of neurodiverse people—especially those with ADHD and Autism—so you can live authentically, take pride in your identity, increase overall well-being, and build meaningful connections to thrive as a neurodivergent person in the modern world.
This workbook will help you:
- Acknowledge your needs and be your own advocate
- Unmask and express your authentic self
- Reduce sensory overload and balance emotions
- Manage rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) and social anxiety
- Build meaningful social connections
- Improve executive functioning to get more done
- Adjust your environment to better fit your needs
Most importantly, you’ll learn to take pride in your identity. Whether you’re autistic, ADHD, or both, this workbook can help you overcome self-critical thinking, advocate for yourself in effective ways, and learn practical skills to help you thrive as your authentic self.
As a therapist who specializes in ADHD and Autism, I found that this workbook for the group I was running was very effective. I had feedback from my group members that it has been very insightful, validating, and useful for all the information that was in the book. It is well written. They cover a broad spectrum of characteristics of what ADHD/Autism is. The book has great interactive activities and really makes a person stop and think about what they can do to help themselves. There are some great techniques in this book as well. The only thing I would like to add is about sensory processing.
This book has been indispensable for helping me process and reflect upon my experiences. Very empowering.
As a mental health professional working with a large number of neurodivergent individuals, and being neurodivergent myself, this workbook has been a god send. I even find it applicable when exploring gender identity with clients as well. Very well written with respectful language throughout.
As a newly diagnosed autistic I have found this workbook to be incredibly helpful. I am working with the first two chapters so far and have found them to be great in helping me see my strengths. It also gives me a good way to have conversations with my family who don’t know much about autism. I am on page 42 and have been working in the book daily, sometimes a couple of times per day. I see a lot of myself in these pages. There are of course things that don’t relate to me. There is new terminology that is helpful in describing what I have experienced most of my life. My mom recognized many of the things in me as she flipped through the book. If you are neurodivergent or suspect that you are this book helps you with a framework beyond deficits and helps you to see your strengths, challenges, and how to work with them and how they affect you mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Autistic therapist here who works with a lot of autistic clients. I absolutely LOVE this workbook. It captures concept after concept I’ve discussed with clients in session in clear and judgement-free ways. Love it so much that I’m back here buying my third round of copies because it has been that useful to me and my clients.