The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series

 The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series is a collection of practical, scenario-based guides for neurodivergent adults navigating real life — at work, in relationships, at the shops, and in every sensory-hostile, socially confusing, executive-function-depleting environment in between. Each field guide delivers scripts, strategies, and structured options for the situations that come up most often, calibrated to how much energy you actually have on the day. No theory. No lengthy self-reflection. Just something your brain can use, right now, in the car park. Written by Dr. Melanie du Preez — a clinical psychologist with over 26 years of experience and the lived reality of late-diagnosed AuDHD — the series combines clinical rigour with the kind of honesty that only comes from knowing what it costs to get through a Tuesday. The Field Guides are the practical companions to the main Psychology of Wellbeing books, which provide the deeper clinical foundations, neuroscience, and identity work behind the strategies. The field guides give you something to do with what you’ve learned — or something to hold onto while you’re still figuring it out. 

EMBRACING DIVERSITY: The Field Guide: Practical Strategies for Navigating the World as Your Neurodivergent Self (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 1)

The book you read in the car park before walking back inside.
You know the theory. You’ve read about neurodivergence, maybe even done the deeper work of understanding your brain. But right now you’re sitting outside a work function, or staring at a message you can’t reply to, or trying to decide whether the family braai is worth the three-day...

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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 —...

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The Loneliness Breakthrough: The Fieldguide- Practical Strategies (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 3)

For autistic adults, ADHD adults, and AuDHD adults who want practical strategies for making friends and building social connection, this field guide offers something the standard loneliness self-help books don’t: scenario-based, clinically grounded approaches written for a brain that processes the social world differently.

You know the feeling....

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Reclaiming You: The Field Guide: Practical Strategies for Building Confidence and Wellness after Eating Disorders (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 4)

Recovery from an eating disorder doesn’t pause for dinner parties, doctor’s appointments, or Tuesday mornings in the supermarket. It happens in ordinary life — in the moments before a meal, in a changing room, across a table from someone who knew you when you were sick.

Reclaiming You: The Field Guide is a practical companion for adults in...

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Quiet the Noise: Practical Tools for Managing Anxiety in Daily Life (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 5)

This is not a book you read from beginning to end.

It is a reference. A practical one, designed for the moment something is actually happening — you are about to walk into the room you cannot bring yourself to enter, the anxiety has just spiked in the meeting, the spiral started at 3am and is still running.

Quiet the Noise: The Field Guide is the...

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Burnout to Balance: The Field Guide: Burnout to Balance: The Field Guide (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 6)

You know the feeling. The manager conversation you keep rehearsing and abandoning. The family gathering you cannot face. The moment you realise you cannot keep going the way you have been going. Understanding burnout is one thing. Knowing what to actually say and do in the middle of a specific, difficult moment is another.
Burnout to Balance: The...

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The Trauma You Carry: The Field Guide: What to Say and Do in the Hard Moments: A Practical Companion (The Psychology of Wellbeing Field Guides Series Book 7)

When it is actually happening, you do not need theory. You need to know what to do next.

The meeting where your voice goes. The message from a relative you were not ready for. The 3 a.m. when the shame gets loud. The touch you wanted and flinched from anyway. These are the ten-minute stretches that trauma is really made of, and they arrive with...

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