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Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD, by James M. Ochoa LPC
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“Focused Forward gets it! If you or someone you care about has the adult version of ADHD, read this book. Written by a man who’s worked in the trenches his whole career, this book is full of practical tips as well as a deep understanding for what this widely misunderstood condition is truly like. A hugely valuable contribution to the treatment of adult ADHD.” --Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., New York Times–bestselling author of Driven to Distraction “James Ochoa’s new book, Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD is very moving, easy to read, and reflects the obvious depth of the author’s clinical experience. This book could only have been written by someone who has spent many years successfully guiding adults to navigate the complex storms of adult ADHD. This book is a rare combination of warmth, wisdom, and innovative tools that can sooth the ADHD soul! I have already started recommending this book to my clients! Mr. Ochoa’s ground-breaking concept of the Emotional Distress Syndrome profoundly affects countless adults with adult ADHD and now gives clinicians and adults a previously missing but critical understanding that can lead to healing the wounds of the accumulated assaults of growing up with ADHD.” --Sari Solden, MS, LMFT, bestselling author of Women with Attention Deficit Disorder and Journeys Through ADDulthood “Finally, a book that gets to the heart of the matter! James Ochoa breaks the silence and brings a voice to possibly the most devastating and misunderstood aspect of ADHD—the emotional distress. He offers practical tools and coping strategies to help people with ADHD close the gap between surviving and thriving. This book is a must for people with ADHD, their loved ones and their helping professionals!” --Nancy A. Ratey, Ed.M., MCC, bestselling author of The Disorganized Mind “If you’ve struggled to make sense of your adult ADHD brain, Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD is the owner’s manual you’ve been waiting for.” --Christie Sprowls, Psy.D “James Ochoa has a unique perspective on the emotional stress of ADHD—he has the disorder himself and he’s spent his career working with ADHD adults. I believe there’s a tremendous need for this book, Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD. As a cognitive behavioral therapist, I’m no stranger to patients who can describe the emotional distress of ADHD in vivid personal detail, without knowing what it’s called, let alone how to address it. Indeed, as far as I know, James Ochoa is the first clinician not just to identify this all-too-common syndrome, but to brainstorm unique fixes. The techniques and stories in this book will serve as a valuable adjunct to cognitive therapy making it invaluable to patient and therapist alike. If you strive for emotional health, pick up this book!” --Lawrence P. Bachus, Ph.D. “From a firm grounding in neurobiology and sound clinical experience, James Ochoa, LPC, has created a masterful toolkit for those with Adult ADHD, their loved ones and the therapists who work with them. With endearing candor and warmth, James ignites compassion and hope with practical tools for healing. I have already applied these non-pathologizing principles with my clients with gratifying results. Focused Forward is a treasure.” --Lucy Griffith, Ph.D.“James Ochoa’s book is a wonderful resource not only for adults with ADHD, but also for those who love and work with them. As with any chronic condition, ADHD can have a profound effect on emotional well-being. Mr. Ochoa aptly demonstrates the corrosive effects ADHD has on emotional functioning. He is not content simply to identify the challenges of ADHD for adults, but goes on to provide immediately useful and practical strategies for successfully managing ADHD. Focused Forward is a welcomed resource full of practical guidance.” --Gary Yorke, Ph.D., Founder, Austin Behavioral Health Center “James Ochoa’s breakthrough methodologies have turned a weakness into strength for adults with ADHD. His insights and techniques have helped creative people and entrepreneurs achieve their potential. He has written a very engaging book which is easy to digest and simple to follow. You’ll learn how the ADHD brain works and more importantly, how to use ADHD to your advantage. What makes this book so important are the concrete steps James outlines to help people with ADHD be their best. Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD provides a new, unique treatment for adults with ADHD. It is a must read.” --Doreen Lorenzo, Co-Founder, Vidlet, Past President, frog design and Quirky “The tools in this book are what I have been looking for ever since I was diagnosed with ADHD. I have used most of the techniques for dealing with the external world. They have all helped but only to a point. I was missing the techniques for dealing with my internal world but could not find them, until now. I dove into the middle of the book as James suggested for someone like me and found techniques that I was able to immediately put to use. I look forward to integrating these ideas into my life and passing them onto my clients. It is my personal opinion that this book could also be valuable to those that are not ADHD but are being stressed by the hectic modern world we live in. That could be just about anyone!” --Tom Viets, ADHD Life Coach “As a classroom teacher, reading specialist and dyslexia therapist for the past 30+ years, I have taught and experienced numerous students with ADHD. Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD was quite enlightening and informative for me because it helped me understand this disorder at a deeper level. As I read the book, many of my past and present students came to mind and what they go through as a person with this disorder. It will be a book of reference for me and I have even implemented a few of the strategies with some of my students and the response was very positive. I feel a much stronger compassion for these students now.” --Mary Cook, Academic Language Therapist at Rawson Saunders School in Austin, TX“Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD by James Ochoa is a small, but powerful book that will change lives for those with ADHD and their significant others who read it. The style of writing is extremely user-friendly with each section flowing seamlessly into the next. It is full of valuable information about the diagnosis of ADHD, particularly for adults, along with practical and relevant strategies that can be of immediate help to those persons struggling with the emotional impact of ADHD in their lives. The uniqueness of this book is the very personal and authentic stories that the author, himself a therapist, shares of his own struggles in living his life with ADHD, stories that will resonate with and touch the hearts of all who read it. Focused Forward is a much-needed and important addition to the resources available on ADHD.” --Rona Pogrund, Ph.D., Professor, Texas Tech University, College of Education-Special Education Program “Insightful and plain spoken, this book goes to the heart of what can be the crippling self-doubt and self-sabotage of adult ADHD. The analogy in the title to a ’storm’ is very powerful image for the ADHD individual who has often struggled for years. The diagnosis of Emotional Distress Syndrome captures that overwhelming sense of private hopelessness with a public face that is maintained to attempt functioning with a crippling emotional distress.” --Kern Vanderburg, Business Development Professional
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About the Author
James Ochoa, a native Texan and Licensed Professional Counselor, is a therapist, writer and speaker who investigates the conundrums, challenges and rewards of adult ADHD—all of which he’s experienced first-hand, being a diagnosed “ADHD-er†himself. He is founder and director of the Life Empowerment Center in Austin, Texas, where he sees clients in group and private sessions and offers trainings for his peers in the mental health world. Equally grounded in neuroscience and intuition, his personal brand of therapy is uniquely empathetic, often transformative. He lives in Austin with his wife Edie Vitemb and their dog Taz, a rescued brindled mix breed. They have two sons, Gabe and Jules.
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Product details
Paperback: 154 pages
Publisher: Empowering Minds Press (February 12, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0996983902
ISBN-13: 978-0996983907
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
39 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#47,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
There are not enough words to express my love for this book.I was diagnosed in August 2015 (at the age of 44) with ADD. It was the missing puzzle piece that finally made my life start making sense. A couple of months later, I began medication. Skeptical at first, I soon realized that it made a HUGE difference in the way my brain functioned, it actually started functioning like I'd wanted it to my entire life!! Problem solved, right???!Wrong. As some with ADD understand, and I quickly realized, there is no "Fix" to ADD. It just IS. I struggled for several months, going from elated back to frustrated. I mean, I was diagnosed, I was on medication, wasn't life just supposed to "click" now?In February 2016, someone suggested I read "Focused Forward" by James Ochoa. At the time, I had several books: How to Clean Your House, How to Organize, How to How to How to. So, I thought "Hey, what's one more book?". I will forever be grateful for the suggestion.As an adult with ADD, reading is hit or miss. If it's a Great book, I'm hyper focused and read it in a matter of days. If it's less so, I struggle and often put it down never to be picked up again. So, one of THE most important tools in our ADD tool chest, I made a strategy. I love to write, nothing specific, just pen going over paper. It's soothing...what better way to keep me (somewhat) interested than to take notes as I read "Focused Forward".While I didn't read the book in a matter of days, actually just finished it in the beginning of May 2016, I was drawn every day to pick it up. Some mornings (my designated time for this book), I didn't want to put it down!! "What's next?!", I just HAD to find out! Every time I read it, I took away something I could DO. A tip, a tool, a strategy, an idea, an understanding...I began to see ME! The awesome ME I really was! Not the failure, not the scatter brain dumb blonde. The me that could be successful! The me that decided I don't have to be perfect at everything, or anything, the decision was mine to make. I could stop comparing myself to everyone else, I could stop believing I was lazy and difficulty. I could FINALLY just be me and know that was perfectly OK and acceptable!Twelve pages of notes later, when I read the last sentence, I just sat and smiled. "I'm going to make it!!", I thought, no, I BELIEVE. Just like the diagnosis and medication didn't fix me, this book didn't "fix" me either. What it DID do, was show me I'm not Broken!! It gave me things I never even began to consider as ways to handle the "storms" of ADD.This book is worth every penny. I actually have spent a LOT more in talk therapy (which helps tremendously!!), but the things I gleaned from this book are priceless. For those that can't afford therapy, or avoid therapy because of your situation, GET.THIS.BOOK. You will not be sorry. It WILL change you.
Discovering you have ADHD as an adult is at once incredibly relieving and completely disorienting. It's the mother of diagnoses-- now everything makes sense, but you have no idea what to do about it.Well, it turns out that unless you deal with the emotional disruption of ADHD (i.e., how you seem to magically blow up your life every so often with mystifyingly inexplicable behavior and mistakes...and the accumulated stress and anxiety that produces), you're not going to get very far with anything else.This book offers real solutions to help adults deal with the emotional issues that can be the most pernicious aspect of this otherwise kind-of-wonderful way of being.
I was diagnosed with ADHD after the birth of my second child when I was 35. I had spent my life knowing I was smart but I just couldn't seem to put all the pieces together and spent so much time wondering what was wrong with me. I couldn't find my car keys, my glasses, the TV remote, my (fill in the blank) and every time I couldn't find said object I felt like more and more like a failure. I kept asking myself: what is wrong with me? This is so simple, why can't I just do this and get it over with. Along comes James and Focused Forward. I admit, I was skeptical at first: Emotional Safe Place? Mental Support Group? Isn't this stuff that I was supposed to have gotten over when I became an adult? Boy was I wrong! This is the best way I can describe the difference between me pre Focused Forward and post Focused Forward: I had a really rough morning today. My 6 year old son (also ADHD) had a meltdown over what he was having for breakfast, while my 9 year old daughter (also ADHD - yes our house is in a constant state of chaos) needed to be reminded to to get her glasses, turn off the lights, etc. By the time we get to school (on time, which is rare), I'm working with my son to get him in a space to be his best that day. Talk about a storm! Finally everyone is ready and I'm back in the car heading to work, and I reach over to my backpack to grab my ADHD meds (they really work for me) only to realize that I've shut one of the straps in the passenger door and of course my backpack was unzipped and now everything in there is falling on to the passenger seat. This is the moment. I start to fall into an old pattern of shame and guilt and failure, but instead I said to myself "Well, this has been an interesting morning, I didn't expect this when I woke up today" It's that survival vs. thrival that so many of us deal with, and that is why Focused Forward and the techniques James Ochoa has laid out are so powerful.
The content and research in this book are very helpful and encouraging. The narration is very frustrating because they read the bullet points, and parentheses, and even when mentioning a “YA novel†the narrator actually says “yah†instead of “why ayeâ€. I have t even been able to finish it yet, because I’ll be listening, and the wonky reading gets so frustrating I have to turn it off. I think there are two different readers too, which is strange because it’s not fiction with multiple characters.This book came highly recommended, and I am thankful to have found it, because I need the information found in it. I just wish I had gotten the physical book instead of the audio. Even better, I wish the author would have the audio re-recorded and also make some printables of some of the lists. As someone with ADHD, audiobooks are my best friend, but this one is counter productive. Get the paper book, and save yourself the frustration.
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