The Jigsaw Mind Series

For smart women who've spent decades wondering why everything feels harder than it should.

The Jigsaw Mind Series explores what happens when high-achieving women discover their ADHD after 40, 50, or beyond. These aren't clinical textbooks or toxic positivity "ADHD is a superpower" guides. They're raw, honest memoirs that combine lived experience with professional expertise, offering practical strategies for women who've been masking, compensating, and exhausting themselves trying to function in a neurotypical world.

Beginning with recognizing your undiagnosed ADHD and executive dysfunction, through navigating emotional dysregulation and burnout, to rebuilding relationships when your brain works differently — this series tackles the real challenges of adult ADHD in women. Each book addresses the symptoms nobody talks about: the Friday night collapse, rejection sensitive dysphoria, time blindness, sensory overload, and the crushing weight of masking your neurodivergent traits for decades.

Written by a clinical psychologist diagnosed at 50, these books speak directly to women who've been misdiagnosed with anxiety or depression, told they're "too sensitive," labeled as "scattered" or "unreliable," and exhausted from trying harder while achieving less. If perimenopause made your coping strategies stop working, if your child's ADHD diagnosis sparked uncomfortable recognition, or if you're tired of buying planners that don't work and notebooks you'll never use — this series understands.

No shame. No judgment. Just recognition, strategies that actually work for ADHD brains, and permission to stop fighting yourself and start working with your beautifully different mind.

Puzzle Pieces: Unlocking ADHD in Women: A Journey of Self-Discovery (The Jigsaw Mind Series Book 1)

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A South African psychologist diagnosed with ADHD at age 50 shares her raw, unfiltered memoir of finally understanding the puzzle pieces of her life.
Are you a smart woman who has spent decades feeling broken and ashamed, only to discover you have ADHD? You’re not alone.
For many women, the signs of undiagnosed ADHD linger just beneath the surface,...

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Jigsaw Hearts: When ADHD Meets Marriage A Memoir About Neurodivergent Love, Lost Suitcases, and Learning to Laugh at 4:30 AM Chaos (The Jigsaw Mind Series Book 2)

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My husband has ADHD and leaves cupboards open, I have ADHD and slam them shut—this is our love story. After my late diagnosis at 50, our 25-year marriage finally made sense: the GPS fights that felt like war, crying over “lost” suitcases circling on carousels, and why saying “relax” to an ADHD spouse should be considered hostile. This memoir...

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Working Pieces: When ADHD Goes to Work - A Memoir About Pesola Bikes, Email Graveyards, and Learning to Build a Career with the Wrong Operating System (The Jigsaw Mind Series Book 3)

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As a psychologist with ADHD diagnosed at fifty, I’ve spent twenty-six years being brilliant at my work while my workplace systems collapsed around me.

This is a memoir about ADHD in the workplace—the gap between potential and performance, the exhaustion of masking at work, and what it means to be genuinely good at your job while catastrophic at...

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SHIFTING GROUND: When Hormones Meet ADHD : A Psychologist’s Memoir of Perimenopause, Late Diagnosis, and the Body That Stopped Cooperating (The Jigsaw Mind Series Book 4)

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You’re not losing your mind. You’re losing your estrogen. And your estrogen was doing a lot of work you never knew about.

At forty-nine, Dr. Melanie du Preez — a clinical psychologist with twenty-six years of experience diagnosing ADHD in others — stood in her own shower, shampoo in hand, with no idea what to do next. Not in a philosophical way....

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Finding the Picture: Coming to Terms with Late-Diagnosed ADHD — For Women Over 40 Who Did Everything Right and Are Still Exhausted (The Jigsaw Mind Series Book 5)

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Four years after her ADHD diagnosis at fifty, South African clinical psychologist
Melanie du Preez is not recovered. She still walks into her colleague’s office at the
psychiatric clinic where she has worked for twenty-six years and goes completely
blank. She still freezes on the couch while her brain issues commands her body
ignores. She still...

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