The Adult ADHD Brain Explained
Easy, Practical Lifestyle Changes to Boost Focus, Energy and Balance
-Without Overwhelming Protocols
Audio files
Here are the audio files for each chapter of the book.
My advice is that you listen alongside looking inside the book, as the printed book is rich in illustrations and infographics. Together, listening and reading will ease the understanding of the content.
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Copyright © 2025 by Eva Gottrup
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Introduction
So, It’s Not Just Me?
Are you ready to get a deeper understanding of what it means to have ADHD? You will get an overview of common traits: cognitive patterns, emotional, and behavioral expressions. And get prepared for the journey this book will lead you through to get a better understanding of how to deal with ADHD in a way that makes you thrive.
Chapter 1:
New Perspectives
Breaking the ADHD Mold
You will realise that ADHD isn’t a flaw in attention, but attention with no off-switch. You will learn how neurodiversity adds value, and that masking is a way most ADHD'ers have learnt in an attempt to survive.
Chapter 2:
Inside the ADHD Brain
The Science of Why You Think, Feel, and Act the Way You Do
In this chapter, you will learn in depth how your brain works. You will learn about what makes brains in ADHD different when it comes to what motivates you, when it comes to levels of hormones and neurotransmitters, and why emotions act faster than logic.
Chapter 3:
The Emotional Weather of the ADHD Mind
When you feel your thoughts
In this chapter, you will learn about emotional storms and how your feelings and thoughts are interconnected. You will understand the emotional journey that it is normal to go through after the diagnosis of ADHD.
Chapter 4:
The Fundamentals of Focus
How Attention Really Works
In this chapter, you will learn that attention works through three mechanisms. We will embrace the fact that wandering attention can be a really positive trait. You will learn about focus freezes, why they appear, and how to unfreeze.
Chapter 5:
Executive Function, Explained
Why You Struggle, and How to Adapt
In this chapter, you will learn the importance of the brain’s management team: Executive functions. And how adapting your systems to your wiring builds trust in your own mind.
Chapter 6:
Habit Building for the Restless Mind
When Habits Don’t Stick
In this chapter, we’ll explore how body awareness, rhythm, and movement turn scattered effort into a steady flow. You’ll learn how to build habits that begin in the body, and anchor the mind.
Chapter 7:
Nutrition, Sleep, and Focus
Supporting Your ADHD Mind
In this chapter you will learn why listening to what your body needs makes a difference in what your mind demands. We’ll explore how nourishing the body becomes the foundation for focus, calm, and clarity.
Chapter 8:
The Calm Core
Finding Steady Ground in a Fast Brain
In this chapter, we will nourish the inside world: learning to calm the nervous system when life races ahead. We’ll explore how breath, presence, and awareness can anchor a restless mind and turn calm into a daily practice instead of a distant goal.
Chapter 9:
Environmental Design
Technology, Triggers, and Creating Focused Spaces
In this chapter, we’ll step into the modern maze of screens, pings, and open tabs and learn how to build physical and digital spaces that protect focus rather than steal it. You’ll discover how to work with technology, not be ruled by it, and how small environmental shifts can turn distraction into flow.
Chapter 10:
From Managing to Thriving
Owning Your ADHD Strengths
In this chapter, we’ll explore how to weave all the tools we have discovered throughout the book into daily life, balancing rest, relationships, and joy, so that your ADHD mind doesn’t just manage… it thrives.
Epilogue
Owning Your ADHD Strengths
Now we are wrapping everything we have discovered in this book to integrate your new strength. You will also learn how to Explain ADHD to Someone Without It, and you will be inspired on where to go on the next steps on your journey with ADHD.
Your Voice Can Help Someone Else Find Theirs
If this book has spoken to you, if even one story, one sentence, or one idea helped something click, would you take a moment to share that? Your words might be the signpost that helps someone else, standing right where you once stood, finally realize: I’m not broken. My brain just works differently.
Reviews aren’t just stars or numbers, but stories that reach the people who most need hope, understanding, and guidance. When you share what resonated with you, you help others find the support they’ve been searching for, sometimes for decades.
So, if you can, take a few minutes to leave a review where you bought this book. Tell the truth of what you found here, in your own voice. You never know whose day, or life, you might change with it.
With Love
Eva
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No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. Eva Gottrup asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.