The ADHD Life Guide Library
The Flourish Reading Room
A Curated Collection of Values-Based Books & Journals Available for Purchase
🎯 FOCUS
Three ADHD-friendly guides to awareness, insight, and everyday change.
Start your journey with clarity. The FOCUS Series helps you observe your ADHD from a new perspective, dive deeper into your patterns, and build structure with a planner designed for real life. Grounded in the HOPE framework, these books are your first steps toward intentional living.
🌬️ BREATHE NOW
A mindfulness companion to ADHD recovery, from overwhelm to restoration.
For the days when you’re frazzled, restless, or running on empty—BREATHE NOW helps you slow down and reconnect. Rooted in nature-based mindfulness and the HOPE model, this soothing trilogy teaches breathwork and gentle practices to restore clarity, calm, and balance.
⚡ ACT NOW
Four action-focused books to help ADHD minds move from stuck to started.
Distraction, disorganisation, delay, and depletion—this series tackles the four horsemen of ADHD procrastination. With relatable storytelling, actionable strategies, and brain-friendly tools, ACT NOW empowers you to take meaningful action, one challenge at a time.
MelodioTherapy
We’re trying fresh, creative ways to make ADHD strategies stick in everyday life. We’ve launched MelodioTherapy for ADHD Minds, a Spotify album from ADHD Life Guide. Our first album is on Spotify and Apple Music, the other two are due to be released soon. Watch the space.
Each song has two halves:
- it names the symptom (so it feels seen and understandable), and
- it teaches simple strategies you can use right away.
Please follow “ADHD Life Guide” on Spotify and listen to the album on repeat/loop — let the words and rhythms sink in. We’ll be releasing one album each month over the coming months, each focused on a different aspect of ADHD.
- Follow the artist
- Listen to Album 1 — The ADHD Mind
How to use the songs
- Put the album on while doing dishes, commuting, or getting ready.
- Let it loop for a week; treat it like daily practice for your brain.
- When a lyric fits your day, try the matching strategy straight away.
This is not a replacement for treatment, but a friendly soundtrack to support it. I’d love to hear which songs resonate and what changes you notice. We would also love to hear suggestions and requests that you might want us to focus on future songs, albums, releases and any other creative / innovative approaches you believe might work.
Values for the ADHD HOPE Trail
For wandering hearts, racing minds, and those seeking direction that lasts.
This transformative five-book series invites readers on a journey through the inner terrain of ADHD—using values as both compass and guide. At the heart of it lies HOPE: a gentle, metaphor-rich framework to help readers pause, reflect, and walk with purpose.
Whether you’re navigating emotional storms, searching for identity, craving connection, or simply looking for a more values-guided way of living, this series offers both structure and soul.
🔰 Book 1: HOPE on the ADHD Trail
Subtitle: Values for Wandering Hearts and Minds
Begin your journey with the HOPE framework—Helps or Harms, Own My Values, People and Pursuits, Enact and Evaluate. Meet Alex and Maya as they trek through metaphorical ADHD landscapes, discovering how to walk with intention, not perfection. Includes grounding tools, trail metaphors, and real-world examples for living a values-rich life.
🌳 Book 2: Roots of Self
Subtitle: Values that Ground Identity and Inner Integrity
Explore 25 values that anchor your sense of self—like Authenticity, Integrity, Self-Reliance, and Wisdom. These values help you stand tall in stormy weather and guide internal decision-making with confidence and calm.
🕊️ Book 3: Wings of Connection
Subtitle: Values that Strengthen Relationships and Belonging
Delve into values like Kindness, Loyalty, Forgiveness, and Support. This volume helps you nurture deeper bonds, repair relational ruptures, and walk side by side with others—open-hearted and strong.
🔥 Book 4: Flame of Purpose
Subtitle: Values that Inspire Action and Meaningful Pursuit
Reignite your why. With values like Courage, Passion, Growth, and Vision, this book guides you through purpose-driven living. Whether you're starting new goals or redefining success, this flame will keep you warm.
🌊 Book 5: River of Life
Subtitle: Values that Celebrate Vitality, Joy, and Discovery
Flow with curiosity, joy, spontaneity, and balance. This final volume invites you to embrace the beauty of change, the spark of play, and the quiet wonder of the present moment.
Together, these books form a map—not to a perfect life, but to a meaningful one.
Walk slowly. Reflect deeply. Choose what to carry.
The trail begins here.
🧭 Compass Chronicles
A 5-part values series for professionals and seekers of purpose.
Written by Dr Manaan Kar Ray, a leader in values-based care, this powerful series begins with HOPE: Compass of the Heart and expands into four casebooks exploring 100 life-shaping values. Ideal for mental health professionals, coaches, and anyone wanting to lead with meaning.
📓 HOPE Journals
A four-part workbook series for building a values-based life.
From Acceptance to Wonder, the HOPE Journals guide you through 100 values—one each week—with reflective prompts, guided actions, and space to grow. A perfect companion to the Safe Life Guide app and FLOURISH journey, these journals make values practical, personal, and transformational.
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