Loving ADHD
A Partner's Guide to Self-Care, Understanding and Communication
Published on 1. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-83688-880-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is not just another book about ADHD, it is a guide for the people who love, support, and live alongside someone with ADHD.
If you are in a relationship with someone who has ADHD this book offers insight, empathy, and practical strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges and rewards of your partnership. Most books focus on the individual with ADHD, leaving partners feeling overlooked; this book places you right at the centre. It provides the understanding, reassurance, and tools needed to strengthen your connection, and care for yourself along the way.
Inside you will find:
¿ Ways to protect your own well-being and build resilience.
¿ Clear, simple explanations of how the ADHD brain works.
¿ Practical, compassionate strategies for better communication & teamwork.
Although written with romantic relationships in mind, these insights are equally valuable for parents, siblings, friends, flatmates, or colleagues.
This book gives you guidance, encouragement and hope, showing that ADHD relationships can thrive.
Jay Macleod is a personal coach who specialises in helping adults with ADHD. Being neurodivergent himself, he draws on both his personal and professional experiences to encourage and enable healthier, more fulfilling partnerships.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83688-880-2 (9781836888802)
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Person
Jay is an author and personal coach who specialises in helping adults with ADHD. He spent many years as a clinical hypnotherapist, worked in the NHS as an Operating Department Practitioner, and has been a full-time university lecturer, and a people manager. He holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Computer Science, a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring.His move to personal coaching was set in motion by a close family member's ADHD diagnosis. Motivated by their challenges, Jay combined his extensive experience in therapeutic care, teaching, mentoring, and coaching, along with research, critical thinking and further specialist training, to establish Jay Macleod Coaching. Jay's ADHD coaching method is grounded in empathy, deep listening, and a strong belief in each person's capacity for growth. Compassion is at the heart of his work.