Focus and Flourish: The Field Guide with Practical Strategies for Neurodiversity Challenges (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 2)

You drafted the email. You just never sent it.

You said yes to three things you cannot do on the same Saturday. You were twenty minutes late to a meeting you knew about for a week. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you have decided this means something is wrong with you as a person.

It does not. But the explanation you have been using — that you are lazy, careless, or simply not trying hard enough — is wrong, and it is making everything harder.

Focus and Flourish: The Field Guide is a scenario-based reference for adults with ADHD. It is not a workbook. There are no exercises, no reflection prompts, no cheerful invitations to reframe your executive dysfunction as a superpower. This is the book you open when the meeting starts in ten minutes, or the task has been sitting there for three weeks, or someone has said something mildly critical and your nervous system has treated it as a five-alarm emergency.

Each entry covers a specific, named situation — from time blindness and task initiation failure to RSD spirals, impulse spending, and the email that has been living in your drafts folder since last Tuesday. Every scenario explains what is happening neurologically, offers immediate damage control, provides scripts for the conversations that follow, and tells you what to do when the strategies fail. That section is in every chapter, because ADHD and strategy failure are not separable, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

Written by Dr. Melanie du Preez, a clinical psychologist with over twenty-six years of experience who was diagnosed with ADHD and autism in her fifties — after spending decades diagnosing it in other people. She is not here to inspire you. She is here to help you get through Tuesday.

Part of The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series. Companion to Focus and Flourish: Building Attention and Wellbeing with ADHD (The Psychology of Wellbeing Series).