Moving Beyond ADD/ADHD, Second Edition
Review
“…hands-down, the best, most down-to-earth, fun, and encouraging book on parenting a child with ADD/ADHD that I’ve ever read.” — Christiane Northrup, M.D., Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, Women’s Bodies, Woman’s Wisdom
This holistic approach to treating A.D.D./A.D.H.D. offers a powerful new perspective that enables those with this disorder, and their loved ones, to shift their focus from the negative symptoms that disrupts their lives and effectively move beyond A.D.D. Lighting the way with up-to-date information, and penetrating insight, the authors provide readers with holistic and clinical wisdom and tools for lasting recovery for themselves and their loved ones.
I am personally appalled that the prevalent solution to A.D.D., A.D.H.D. in the U.S. is dependence on drugs for our children. That is why I am convinced that the suggestions offered in “Moving Beyond A.D.D., A.D.H.D.” should be a first line of defense, not the last one. Debroiter and Hart offer practical, insightful techniques for grounding both children and adults who suffer from these deficits where wholeness is restored, and balance is self-regulated. For those who suffer from the disconnection that ensues from this disorder, holistic exercises and routines that help re-connect mind, body, and spirit must be accessed from within to be lasting. This is a “must read” for all stakeholders who love and work with children.
Finally someone has the courage to say NO to drugs. This book shows you that there is life before taking drugs for this disorder. I commend the authors for doing an outstanding job of showing how anyone can overcome this setback in their life. On a scale of 1-5, I give this book a 10. Everyone should read this book to get a better insight to what this so called disorder can do to you or your family.
Michael Monji, author of “Does It Pay to Die?”, a living trust workbook.
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All I can say is “simply outstanding.” Many health practitioners have been saying for years that ADD/ADHD needs a “multi-modal” approach, and the authors, while very careful not to dismiss medications for ADHD state, “whatever the cause of these symptoms, there are certain things common to all who are experiencing them, as well, certain things that can be ‘retraind’ and ‘reframed’” (my paraphrase)
I am 46 and was a “victim” of ADHD all of my life, until my late 30’s living on the edge, at times almost homeless…Even before I read this book, I had learned much of it intuitively, and when I came across it, found it “languaged” my experience to the “T”. Whatever the cause (ultimate or proximate) of ADHD, there are things we can do to change our world, and our perception of the world.
ADHD folk, never quite get the joke: “DR. DR., it hurts when I do this, ’so DON’T do it!’”, rather we just continue using old strategies that accomplish nothing. Using some of the book’s excersizes, in a sense, I “graduated” from them…more than giving me useful tools, (which it did) it opened up my thinking, and hence I have forged my own unique set of tools, through examining my experience in the world…and it would not have been possible (to my mind) without the “concretization” that this book did for my intuitions.
Not everything in the book, may be for everyone, but if you walk away with the book’s jist, it can help you change your own life…You are not a victim, neither is your child…ADHD, rather than a disease is a set of neurological traits, which when misunderstood can wreak havoc in our lives, but when understood and harnessed can help us not only to overcome, but to exceed ours and others expectations entirely!
I wish I had had this book when I was an adolescent, in hindsite, I might not have been ready to receive its message, but who knows…more important than the excersizes, imho, is the main message this book speaks about! A MUST READ!