Audiobooks by Melissa Orlov

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The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD

[The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD] is Hands down the best book for couples dealing with ADHD. No other book comes even close to providing a balance of the positives, negatives and all that is between: 'Thrive' provides both inspiration and concrete strategies for couples learning to find joy again after years of struggling with ADHD. I love this book! - Bryan Hutchinson, Author of 7 Crucial Tips for Parents and Teachers of Children with ADHD More and more often, adults are realizing that the reason they are struggling so much in their relationship is that they are impacted by previously undiagnosed adult ADHD. Learning how to interact around ADHD symptoms is often the difference between joy together and chronic anger and frustration. So The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD lays out the most important strategies couples can use – right now – to rebuild trust, fight less, disagree more productively, get the attention they deserve, and rebuild intimacy in their relationship. These are strategies honed over years of working specifically with couples impacted by ADHD, and demonstrated to change lives for the better. ‘Thrive’ is the go-to book for couples struggling with ADHD who want to actively work to improve their relationship. Melissa Orlov is a marriage consultant who helps ADHD-affected couples and also teaches marriage counselors and other professionals about effective marriage therapy for couples impacted by ADHD, Nancie Kohlenberger, LMFT, is a psychotherapist and an ADHD adult relationship coach. Combining many years of experience between them, The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD helps couples move away from their negative emotions and interactions to create a calmer, more loving partnership. Organized into 21 common emotional Hot Spots, 'Thrive' shows you how to diminish frustration, optimize treatment, revive intimacy, utilize communication skills, and improve partner reliability. This audiobook is skillfully read by Sarah Zimmerman, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Sam Platt.

Melissa Orlov, Nancie Kohlenberger (Author), Sarah Zimmerman (Narrator)

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The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

An invaluable resource for couples in which one of the partners suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), this authoritative book guides troubled marriages towards an understanding and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by it, and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way. Going beyond traditional marriage counseling, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages-such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues-through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions. This resource encourages both spouses to become active partners in improving their relationship and healing the fissures that ADHD can cause.

Melissa Orlov (Author), Laura Jennings (Narrator)

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Married to Distraction

Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples' therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today's overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to maneuver your marriage out of the destructive roadblocks created by the avalanche of busy living. • Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play. • Develop and nurture empathy-the essential building block to healthy communication. • Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other. • Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation. All of us who have been part of a couple for more than a few years will recognize ourselves in this reassuring book. Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.

Edward Hallowell, Edward M. Hallowell, Melissa Orlov, Sue Hallowell (Author), Edward Hallowell, Edward M. Hallowell, Sue Hallowell (Narrator)

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