Books I Recommend
There are so many wonderful books on the topics I'm passionate about, so this is just a selection of some of my favorites.Categories
ADHD – Executive Function Productivity/Time Optimization Parenting/Education Organizing Relationships/Couples Personal Development/Health Career/Workplace Teen/Young Adult
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ADHD – Executive Function
ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
Strategies that work for the neuro-atypical mind, from an acclaimed professional organizer and a renowned ADD clinician.
You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?
The classic self-help book for adults with ADD. Warm, honest and funny, it offers understanding, practical how-to’s and moral support.
A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults
A research based guide to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of ADHD and executive function impairments.
The Disorganized Mind:
Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks and Talents
Proven strategies to help anyone with ADHD get focused, stay on track, and get things done – and finally get what they want from their work and their life.
Is It You, Me or Adult ADD?
Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love has ADD
ADHD symptom, ‘selfish’ behavior or both? A look at both sides to help find solutions that work for all.
Organizing for the Creative Person
Right-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals.
The ADHD Effect on Marriage:
Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps
A guide to dealing with the impact of ADHD on marriage without making either partner ‘wrong.’
Productivity/Time Optimization
The Disorganized Mind:
Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks and Talents
Proven strategies to help anyone with ADHD get focused, stay on track, and get things done – and finally get what they want from their work and their life.
Parenting/Education
A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults
A research based guide to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of ADHD and executive function impairments.
Organization
ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
Strategies that work for the neuro-atypical mind, from an acclaimed professional organizer and a renowned ADD clinician.
Organizing for the Creative PersonRight-brain styles for conquering clutter, mastering time, and reaching your goals.
relationships/couples
Is It You, Me or Adult ADD?
Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love has ADD
ADHD symptom, ‘selfish’ behavior or both? A look at both sides to help find solutions that work for all.
The ADHD Effect on Marriage:
Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps
A guide to dealing with the impact of ADHD on marriage without making either partner ‘wrong.’
Organization
Personal Development/Health
SPARK:
The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Evidence-based support for the transformative effects of exercise on the brain: Beat stress, lift mood, fight memory loss, sharpen intellect and more.
Career/Workplace
Finding a Career That Works for You:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing a Career
An essential guide for choosing a career or finding a job: From clarifying your interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals to practical tips for each step in the job-finding process.
Teen/Young Adult
By teaching how to better understand one’s interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals, practical tips are provided on how to find a job in a chosen field—where to search for available jobs, the best ways to prepare a resume, how to write a cover letter, and how to make the best impression during a job interview.
For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The inattention, time-mismanagement, procrastination, impulsivity, distractibility, and difficulty with transitions that often go hand-in-hand with ADHD can be overcome.
We only have so much time in the day and there are plenty of resources to look into how to best leverage that time. Alan’s book breaks things down to practical actions you can take now, using what you already have at your disposal – the thing between your ears: your brain. Alan offers practical and actionable advice in these pages that will help you process and prioritize better than before.
Whether you’re drowning in clutter or just looking for a new way to deal with the perennial challenge of organizing and managing material things, this fresh and reassuring approach is sure to help. Making Peace with the Things in Your Life will help you cut down on your clutter and cut down on your stress!

This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming™ Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming.