ADHD Body and Mind is currently a number 1 bestseller on Amazon
ADHD Body and Mind is currently a number 1 bestseller on Amazon.
Since launching on 21 April, it has also stayed in the top 10 in Disability, the top 30 in Public Health and Preventative Medicine, and the top 50 in Other Branches of Medicine.
I’m deeply grateful. And also, if I’m honest, a little overwhelmed.
The last few months have been challenging. My mum and dad have both been fragile health-wise, and I’ve been travelling back and forth to Spain to spend time with them, sit with them, worry about them, love them, and hold the tenderness of watching my parents become more vulnerable while life keeps asking me to keep going.
Because of that, I’ve done very little promotion. I’ve probably let opportunities fall through the cracks. Emails have sat unanswered for too long. Ideas have stayed as notes on my phone and endless "to do" lists. Things I “should” have done have not been done.
But I have also been trying to listen to my body.
Having got to know burnout intimately before, I had no desire to walk myself back into those dark depths just because my book was out and I felt I had to become a machine overnight.
So I’ve had to practise what I write about. I’ve had to balance my autistic need for order, clarity, and control with my ADHD tendency to say “yes” to everything that feels exciting, meaningful, urgent, or full of possibility.
I’ve had to remember that capacity is not a character flaw. It's biology, a nervous system state, life context, grief, travel, work, love, uncertainty, and the body asking not to be ignored, sometimes in ways that aren't even that subtle!
I’m an independent author working with a specialist publisher, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd. I’m also very much a one-man band. There is no big team behind me managing all the moving parts. No big PR budget, no Google ads or army of people turning this book into a campaign. Just me, my laptop, my lived experience, my science, my family, my nervous system, and a burning desire to create something useful.
This book was part of my own healing process.
I wrote it during an intense and difficult personal time, not from a place of having everything neatly figured out, but from the messy, honest place of trying to make meaning while still living the questions. So every message I receive from someone who tells me the book has helped them feel less broken, less alone, or more able to understand what their body has been trying to say, means more than I can easily put into words. To know that those words are now giving other people’s nervous systems a little more room to breathe makes me very happy.
Thank you to everyone who has bought it, reviewed it, shared it, messaged me, or simply held it close. And thank you to my mum and dad, who are in these photos, and who have always been part of the story behind the story.
I may not be promoting this book perfectly. But perhaps that is fitting. Because ADHD Body and Mind was never about perfection. It was always about permission.
With love and gratitude,
Dr Miguel 🙏🏽💛
