My summary:

The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women starts out with an easy-reading and succinct overview of ADHD and then launches into an easy to follow overview of coping strategies to not only help you survive, but thrive in life. 

My thoughts:

The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women is a no-nonsense guide to basics that can help anyone function better in life, with ADHD or not. 

The publisher reached out to me and asked if I’d be willing to read this book and leave a review. Although I don’t have ADHD, nor do I have anyone close to me with it, I agreed. I hoped some coping mechanisms or techniques discussed might just be generally helpful in life. 

This book is a good reminder that basics matter. 

It lays out easy steps to take in every facet of life. Instead of making whole, sweeping lifestyle changes, it recommends manageable ideas to form lasting habits. For example, in the food section, it recommends picking 1-3 of the suggestions to implement instead of the entire list. 

I already practice a lot of the recommendations in this book, so although not life-changing in that respect, it does feel validating. 

Some great recommendations mentioned in this book, that I personally use daily and that have been nothing short of life-changing for me, are the Balance app and the 5-Minute Journal. I also have read and highly recommend Atomic Habits by James Clear, which would be a great supplement to this book to help put suggestions here into practice. 

Overall, I found this book to simply lay out some practical life tips. Although a lot of it is not applicable to me or new information for me, it is still a good reminder of the important basics in life.