Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this!
As someone who was diagnosed late in life with ADHD and teaches many ADHD students this book was incredibly helpful, not only in understanding my own diagnosis and how it affects me but better ways to communicate with my students and a resource to show them and their parents. Its bite sized, offers good information, and is packaged in a cute book with adorable graphics and pictures.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me review this book. This book has some great tips and ideas on how to manage adhd and not let it overwhelm you.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC, the opinions that follow are my own.

I cannot thank you enough for granting me access to this ARC! As someone who wasn’t diagnosed until her 30s, reading this was so helpful! Informative and adorably illustrated, I will definitely be buying a copy for my mom and would recommend to any friend new to their diagnosis and looking for a well of self compassion.

✨ Review ✨ The Mini ADHD Coach: Tools and Support to Make Life Easier—A Visual Guide by Alice Gendron

This adorable book gives you bite-size chunks to help you understand ADHD and absorb tricks and tips to help you out. Filled with cute illustrations, lots of headings and sections, it seems like a book that'd be easy to pick up and put down as you have the attention for it. Many of the pages have just a handful of words -- making this super digestible and relatable.

So many of these pages were impactful. There's a page with a rainbow feelings wheel with how ADHD can effect emotions -- super straight forward and nothing revolutionary but it left me feeling seen that ADHD can affect emotions in different ways.

The book is filled with different hacks -- tools for working with your ADHD brain. Things like habit stacking, pomodoro method, working in batches -- many of these things were familiar to me but the book presented them in such an achievable way. Instead of giving you pages of text, it presented it in short blurbs with images and tips.

This also could be really great with a younger audience to explain how ADHD works and how you can understand it better but NOTE there is a section on sex. Of course, none of this replaces a doctor / medical care, but it has the potential to be a great resource for lots of people!

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Genre: mental health, self-help
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2023

Thanks to Chronicle Books and #netgalley for an advanced e-copy of this book!

Excellent book for individuals to learn about ADHD symptoms and how to handle them. Quick and easy read for individuals with ADHD. The illustrations would be great for using in therapy sessions with clients. Definitely will add this to my collection of books on hand for therapy.

As an adult with ADHD I'm very away there is no easy solution or magic bullet. I found the book well organized and the information attractively presented. I definitely found some tips and tricks o well incorporate. Thank you for the opportunity to review this book, I look to adding strategies to my daily routines.

This is great for anyone that has just received diagnosis/or has recently self-diagnosed. It offers insight and tips on how to function in daily life.

The Mini ADHD Coach is a wonderfully informative read with an ADHD user friendly format. The information is presented clearly and the drawings throughout make it so fun! I have already utilized several tips and ideas from the book in my life and have noticed a huge difference. I am so excited for this to be on my shelf to reference whenever I need some encouragement or to refresh my brain. I think anyone with or without ADHD needs to read this book to help understand the hidden symptoms that cause daily hardships.

This was a super helpful, easy to read guide on the basics of ADHD which even included tips to incorporate into daily life to manage ADHD symptoms. With a social work/mental health background, I was pretty familiar with ADHD as an abstract concept but recently started realizing that a lot of the daily tasks/functions that I struggle with may be a result of adult ADHD. It's always encouraging to read another person's struggle when you can resonate so much. The cartoons throughout the guide were entertaining and relatable as well. There were so many specific tips that I've started to use when feeling overwhelmed and I highly recommend this book to anyone else struggling with symptoms of ADHD or to anyone who would just like to learn more about the diagnosis in general. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this ARC @netgalley and Alice Gendron!

Wow.

That was my first thought when I closed this book at the end.

As a mid-30s wife and mother who was diagnosed with ADHD recently, this little companion guide contained a wealth of knowledge and acceptance I wasn’t ready for. Written by someone with ADHD, you could tell. Part graphic novel to settle that ADHD fog and half engaging writing and I found myself focusing and absorbing so much information.

This is a MUST READ for anyone with ADHD. You’ll learn about different symptoms and stims and ways to help you take control of your life and diagnoses. The tone of the book is playful and calm rather than instructive which is so helpful! Like I said, you can tell this book is written by someone with ADHD for people with ADHD.

𝘼𝙍𝘾 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚. 𝙈𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮. Thanks to Netgalley and Chronicle Books.

DNF'ing at 22%

I was hoping this would be a fun/interesting look into ADHD, to make it relatable and easier to understand. But it ended up being super scientific and hard to digest.

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and struggling to understand what that means and how I can find coping skills. This book was so useful to helping me understand my brain and how to work with it!

If you were able to get through this book with relative ease when you typically struggle with other books then you might have adhd. In a easy format with visuals and small chunks of relevant information instead of long paragraph, this book is a create way to find out if you have adhd, to learn more about adhd whether it be for you or someone you know who had adhd.

Really insightful & helpful book.


//I received the book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

Full disclosure, I have been following The Mini ADHD Coach on Instagram (@the_mini_adhd_coach) for a few years, so I’m predisposed to love this book! (& I absolutely loved this book!) This is an amazing guide as it helps explain what ADHD is, how it might present, & tips to help those with ADHD (& those who love them) help navigate the world as a person with ADHD. It’s basically a guide that should be given to every teen/adult when they receive a diagnosis. I received my diagnosis later in life & I still struggle to understand it - this guide legit helped educate me & opened my eyes to some strategies I never considered. Not to mention, the art style is adorable & really separates this guide from many of the books out there that can feel more like a medical textbook than a functional guide that could ACTUALLY help me everyday. I wish I had this book back when I first got my diagnosis, but I’m so glad that it exists now!

Thank you to Chronicle Books/Chronicle Prism & NetGalley for providing a digital copy of this book to review. All thoughts & opinions expressed are my own.

“People with ADHD have a brain that works differently from those without ADHD.”

I’ve known from almost as far back as I can remember, that I have ADHD. It’s looked different throughout the different phases of my life. Things are always changing and I’m constantly juggling how to respond and manage things. Being a mom of 2 kids required different adjustments than now being a mom of 3. I’ve found various things throughout the years to utilize to manage this condition. I’ve had aha moments about things I struggle with and realizing that they are also a part of my ADHD. When I saw an advanced copy of this book being offered by the publisher, I decided to check it out. It may surprise you to know this is the first official book on ADHD that I’ve really read (though I’m sure my mom read them all and verbally imparted their information to me over the decades).

I love that this book starts at the beginning and is written in a way that everyone can understand. It’s not some scientific, psychological textbook. This book is a great resource for all: whether you have ADHD, know and love someone with it, or just want to learn more. I highly recommend this easy to read and follow resource.

While this book was incredibly helpful in understanding the many ways ADHD has impacted my life and validating some of the issues I've undergone and never known to attribute to ADHD, I'm not sure that the complicated language would be very helpful to young children. I definitely think this would be a great book for parents/caregivers to read with their children as there are some helpful and digestible graphics.

A cute, welcoming book and a very thorough introduction.

From symptoms and that process of moving from suspicion you have it to seeking a professional screening, from a glossary of useful terms to how to cope better in daily life - this was a comprehensive look at life with ADHD. Even better was the fact it was half picture book\graphic novel; my ADHD eyes could easily skim what was going on for each page's concept with the mixed format. So many aspects of my own experience received a helpful name in this, making me feel not so alone, like overcompensation by arriving suuuper early to things, or being stuck in Waiting Mode all day when I know I have an appointment later on.

The introduction also makes it clear this was written by someone with ADHD: it's designed so that you can read it front to back, sure, but more relevant to ADHD patients is that it can be opened at any point for useful, concise, and kindly worded guidance. You can read just the glossary and never the rest. This is really a self-help book that aids you in being nicer to yourself as you manage your ADHD in daily life, and that gentle tone was so important for me as a very tightly-wound ADHD patient and reader.

5 stars for usefulness. I could easily see myself getting a physical copy just for the glossary alone.

This book would have been wonderful just after receiving my diagnosis! I've learned a lot of these strategies since then, but a reminder of them is always helpful! I know how valuable this would be to someone new to the diagnosis or a loved one trying to better understand a person. The author did a good job of being succinct and illustrating things in a digestible way!

I dont have an ADHD diagnosis, I’ve yet to go in for it but in the midst of struggling with getting my life in order I found this book might be insightful. It was incredibly insightful, full of information about common characteristics of ADHD and some helpful tips to keep my life on the right track. I found myself identifying with so many of the traits described as well as finding myself already implementing a few of the tips and hacks that the book suggested. I found this book to be super helpful and made me feel even more comfortable about asking for help. I would definitely recommend this to those who are struggling with ADHD, actually or those looking for help in understanding others with ADHD.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a copy.