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“When we’re mindful, we notice sooner when we’re barreling into mental “time travel.” We come back to what’s in front of us, which otherwise may not get much attention at all. We recognize when thoughts make a challenging situation even more challenging.”

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD: Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence by Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth

December 31, 2023 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

Beginning this review has been more challenging than I anticipated because I find myself stumbling over language. There is a lot of misunderstanding and stigma around ADHD. I don’t like calling it a “condition” and I certainly don’t want to call it a “disorder” because that supposes that there is a “right” way to be and exist. In our society, we have lumped brains into “neurotypical” and “neuroatypical” categories, and ADHD drops you into the “neuroatypical” box. Having a diagnosis for my kiddo has enabled […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ADHD, Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth, Self-help, teens

cheerbrarian's CBR15 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ADHD, Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth, Self-help, teens ·
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I wish I had this book 8 years ago and glad it exists now.

How to Keep House While Drowning: A gentle approach to cleaning and organizing. by KC Davis, lpc

November 3, 2023 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

This past July, I read KatSings review of How to Keep House While Drowning and immediately put it on hold at my library.   Eight years ago I was drowning.  I was a SAHM who was deeply depressed and feeling very worn down with a sickly four year old and a neurodivergent eight year old.  When every day is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting it’s hard to keep house to the level of “clean” that we often feel morally compelled to do.  And because we can’t […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ADHD, CBR15, cleaning, Depression, Dome'Loki, KC Davis, KC Davis, lpc, Mental Health, neurodivergent, non fiction, Organization

Dome'Loki's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ADHD, CBR15, cleaning, Depression, Dome'Loki, KC Davis, KC Davis, lpc, Mental Health, neurodivergent, non fiction, Organization ·
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If you had access to a machine that handed out orgasms like candy on Halloween, wouldn’t you give up on mere mortals?

Caught A Vibe (Love In The Quarantimes Book 1) by Eva Moore

October 15, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Why am I swooning over the one guy who treated me like a professional? Ridiculous. That should have been the bare minimum of every interaction today. ― Eva Moore, Caught A Vibe The image of her personally researching and testing out the product screams through my brain. I snap my eyes to hers and my mouth shut until I’m sure my filter is working again. I will not be that guy. ― Eva Moore, Caught A Vibe Penny is a robotics genius trying to get her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: ADHD, badass female lead, bisexual mc, Contemporary Romance, COVID inspired, Eva Moore, hurt/comfort, sex positive, tech startups

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: ADHD, badass female lead, bisexual mc, Contemporary Romance, COVID inspired, Eva Moore, hurt/comfort, sex positive, tech startups ·
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April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

May 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. What? Whatever. I’ll still keep reading this garbage. The Hunting Party*** I was prepared to write about this being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre

Jake's CBR15 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, ADHD, Boston, Donald Westlake, Flux, hard case crime, Jackie Collins, Jinwoo Choo, Lady Boss, Lucky Santangelo, Lucy Foley, mystery, New York City, Peter Shankman, politics, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, The Boy with the Faster Brain, The Cutie, The Hunting Party, The Widening Gyre ·
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Slightly Baffled

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

October 30, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Warning: here be spoilers America, sometime in the near future. Astrobiologist Theo Byrne raises his son Robin alone after the death of his wife. He feels like he’s doing a terrible job, especially when Robin is sent home from school for smashing his only friend’s face with a thermos. Robin is a complicated child; intelligent but suffering from Aspergers, ADHD, OCD and probably a few other things. Theo is weary to accept the decision; Robin’s school, meanwhile, is pushing him to put the boy on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ADHD, Asperger's, autism, Bewilderment, child psychology, cllimate change, Environment, flowers for algernon, politics, Psychology, richard powers

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ADHD, Asperger's, autism, Bewilderment, child psychology, cllimate change, Environment, flowers for algernon, politics, Psychology, richard powers ·
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A glimmer of hope to all the teens who are a little bit off…

The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

September 7, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

Abelard and Lily are both neurodivergent. Abelard has Asperger’s and Lily has ADHD. Abelard fixes things and Lily destroys them.  After an awkward kiss, a trip to detention and with the aid of a worn copy The Letters of Abelard and Heloise the two fall hard for each other. I thought of Abelard, under the same anxious impulse to touch everything in the world of the here and now that we could feel with our hands. But unlike me, he was thinking about the hidden […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: ADHD, Asperger's, cbr13bingo, high school, Laura Creedle, young love

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: ADHD, Asperger's, cbr13bingo, high school, Laura Creedle, young love ·
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