Being a Mom with ADHD: Reduce Stress, Manage Sensory Overwhelm, and Enjoy the Parenting Adventure
About this ebook
If you’re a mom with ADHD, you already know that the mental load of parenting can feel like a full-time job for your brain. The lists, schedules, sensory chaos, executive-functioning demands, and emotional labor could push even the most organized person to the brink. If you’re feeling tapped out, touched out, and completely overwhelmed, this book is for you.
Being a Mom with ADHD offers the understanding, compassion, and tools you need to reset and recenter. Drawing on her experience as both a therapist and an ADHD mom, Anita Robertson helps you navigate motherhood with less guilt and more confidence.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Research-based insights into how ADHD uniquely affects women and mothers
- Real stories from other ADHD moms who’ve found ways to thrive
- Strategies to manage sensory overload and calm your nervous system
- Step-by-step tools for tackling mental load and executive-function challenges
- Guidance for improving relationships and getting the support you need
With humor and heart, this book reminds you that your neurodivergence isn’t a flaw—it’s part of your creative, compassionate, resilient nature. It also shows that you can build a family life that works with your brain, not against it.
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About the author
Anita Robertson, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and ADHD mom who specializes in helping adults and families understand and thrive with neurodivergence. She is coauthor of ADHD and Us, and a sought-after speaker and presenter in the ADHD community, including at the inaugural Neurodiversion Conference. Known for her warm, relatable voice, Anita blends clinical wisdom with lived experience to empower other ADHD moms to find calm, focus, and connection in motherhood.
Foreword writer Tracy Otsuka is a certified ADHD coach, attorney, best-selling author of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, and host of the ADHD for Smart Ass Women podcast, with more than 8 million downloads in over 160 countries. Her insights have been featured in top-tier media outlets like Bloomberg, CBS Mornings, ABC News Live, Forbes, ADDitude, and Prevention.
Afterword writer Tamara Rosier, PhD, is a highly regarded speaker, and widely recognized as a leading authority on ADHD and neurodiversity. As founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, Rosier has dedicated her career to empowering individuals, families, and organizations to embrace the unique strengths of ADHD.
