“How to Understand and Deal with ADHD” Became an Immediate Bestseller

When How to Understand and Deal with ADHD launched last month, the goal was simple: provide a grounded, compassionate, and deeply practical resource for ADHD individuals and those supporting them.

To our total surprise, within the first week our book reached the Independent Publishers non-fiction bestseller list, sitting alongside enduring, transformative works like Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Those are both books Charity has loved, and recommended, for years, and seeing our new book on the same list was a powerful moment. Some of Tom’s favorite books are also on the list, including The Color of Law and A Philosophy of Walking.

To see a new resource on ADHD sharing space with foundational texts on human resilience, connection, and self-understanding is both humbling and deeply validating. It signals a growing, vital shift in how we approach mental health.

Why This Book Resonates Right Now

For years, ADHD has often been framed primarily through a lens of deficit or disruption. Many adults and professionals seeking clarity encounter resources that are either overly clinical, rigid, or detached from the lived, daily experience of managing an atypical nervous system.

How to Understand and Deal with ADHD was written to bridge that exact gap. Rather than offering standardized productivity hacks or rigid frameworks, the book explores:

• Somatic & Nervous System Dynamics: Understanding how attention, focus, and emotional regulation show up and how to work with your nervous system instead of fighting it.

• Reframing Self-Advocacy: Moving away from shame-based narratives and building daily rhythms, environments, and boundaries tailored to how your brain actually operates.

• Parts Work & Self-Compassion: Integrating gentle, internal inquiry to address the chronic masking, overwhelm, and burnout that so often accompany neurodivergence.

• Practical, Adaptable Toolkits: Clear strategies designed for real life, allowing readers to build a personalized approach to focus, emotional grounding, and executive functioning.

Bridging Science, Compassion, and Lived Experience

Standing on the bestseller list alongside works like Braiding Sweetgrass- which honors ecological wisdom and reciprocal connection- and Man’s Search for Meaning- which explores purpose amidst struggle- reflects a collective shift in what readers are looking for today.

People are looking for depth. They are seeking mental health and personal growth resources that honor their whole identity, validate their lived experience, and offer sustainable paths forward. The rapid response to How to Understand and Deal with ADHD speaks to a widespread hunger for tools that merge clinical grounding with genuine empathy.

Where to Find the Book

Whether you are navigating an ADHD diagnosis yourself, supporting a loved one, or looking to deepen your clinical or personal understanding of neurodiversity, How to Understand and Deal with ADHD is designed to offer clarity, relief, and actionable guidance.

How to Order Your Copy:

• Online Retailers: Available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on all major book platforms.

• Local Independent Bookstores: Order directly through your local indie bookstore or Bookshop.org to support local booksellers. We personally love supporting our local bookstore, The Frenchtown Bookshop!

Thank you to every reader, advocate, and community member who picked up a copy during launch week, shared it with a friend, or left a review. This milestone belongs to everyone committed to building a more compassionate, understanding world for neurodivergent minds.

If the book resonated with you and you want to work with Tom, you can find him here!

And if you want to schedule an intensive or consultation with Charity, you can do so here.