Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience
If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may have trouble building and maintaining relationships. Social pressures may send you spiraling into fits of chaotic thought and speech, or feelings of shame and low self-esteem. You aren't alone, and it's not your fault. Many adult ADHDers struggle with communication and social interactions. The good news is there are skills you can easily learn to help you cultivate meaningful connections and thrive. This empowering guide can help you get started.

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD translates the neuroscience behind ADHD into practical skills for improving your communication and building better relationships. You'll gain crucial insight into how your brain works, and—most importantly—how it differs from a neurotypical brain. You'll also develop new social executive functioning skills, giving you the ability to appropriately process and respond to social information, smoothly navigate complex relationships, and improve interpersonal interactions.

From enhancing self-awareness to staying cool under pressure, this is your guide to genuine, authentic connection with yourself and others. If you're ready to overcome the obstacles of ADHD and take your conversations, relationships, and confidence to another level, pick up this book on your way to a life full of promise.
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Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience
If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may have trouble building and maintaining relationships. Social pressures may send you spiraling into fits of chaotic thought and speech, or feelings of shame and low self-esteem. You aren't alone, and it's not your fault. Many adult ADHDers struggle with communication and social interactions. The good news is there are skills you can easily learn to help you cultivate meaningful connections and thrive. This empowering guide can help you get started.

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD translates the neuroscience behind ADHD into practical skills for improving your communication and building better relationships. You'll gain crucial insight into how your brain works, and—most importantly—how it differs from a neurotypical brain. You'll also develop new social executive functioning skills, giving you the ability to appropriately process and respond to social information, smoothly navigate complex relationships, and improve interpersonal interactions.

From enhancing self-awareness to staying cool under pressure, this is your guide to genuine, authentic connection with yourself and others. If you're ready to overcome the obstacles of ADHD and take your conversations, relationships, and confidence to another level, pick up this book on your way to a life full of promise.
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Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD: Shame-Busting Strategies to Build Better Relationships Using Polyvagal Theory and Neuroscience

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If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may have trouble building and maintaining relationships. Social pressures may send you spiraling into fits of chaotic thought and speech, or feelings of shame and low self-esteem. You aren't alone, and it's not your fault. Many adult ADHDers struggle with communication and social interactions. The good news is there are skills you can easily learn to help you cultivate meaningful connections and thrive. This empowering guide can help you get started.

Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD translates the neuroscience behind ADHD into practical skills for improving your communication and building better relationships. You'll gain crucial insight into how your brain works, and—most importantly—how it differs from a neurotypical brain. You'll also develop new social executive functioning skills, giving you the ability to appropriately process and respond to social information, smoothly navigate complex relationships, and improve interpersonal interactions.

From enhancing self-awareness to staying cool under pressure, this is your guide to genuine, authentic connection with yourself and others. If you're ready to overcome the obstacles of ADHD and take your conversations, relationships, and confidence to another level, pick up this book on your way to a life full of promise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798228660519
Publisher: Tantor
Publication date: 12/01/2025
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Shawn Horn, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, host of the Inspired Living podcast, blogger, self-help author, and recognized expert in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and shame psychology with over three decades of experience in the mental health field. In addition to her private practice, she has served as adjunct faculty at Gonzaga University, Moody Bible Seminary, and as a psychotherapy supervisor for the University of Washington and Washington State-affiliated psychiatric residency program in Spokane, Washington. On social media platforms, she is known as the "Shame-busting Psychologist," followed by thousands for her honest and informative content on overcoming shame, adult ADHD, rejection-sensitive dysphoria (RSD), finding hope, and living an inspired life.

Dr. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis is the author of several self-help books, including five on the subject of ADHD in adults. She is an American Mental Counseling Association diplomate and a clinical specialist in child and adolescent counseling, one of twenty in the United States. She is also a national certified counselor, licensed mental health counselor, qualified LMHC supervisor, and Florida Supreme Court certified family mediator and Circuit Civil Court mediator. She is also a blogger for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She has a private practice in Tampa, Florida.



Christa Lewis and her pseudonym Pippa Jayne have narrated 265 audiobooks between them. Christa is a conservatory trained actor with a smart and funny vibe who can also meet the moment in nonfiction thanks to a seventeen-year stint as a newsreader. Christa speaks accent-free German fluently and offers a variety of accents and dialects.

Magically, there have been eight AudioFile Earphones Awards in nonfiction/biography and memoir, YA, and fiction-as well as a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listeners Award, a Listeners Choice Award, and two Audie nominations.
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