Brilliant at Work, Disaster at Home: Survival Strategies for High-Performing Women with ADHD Who Crush It at Work and Fall Apart at Home — A Guide That Works With Your Brain, Not Against It

You crushed it today.You managed a crisis before 9 AM. You ran three back-to-back meetings, solved a problem no one else could crack, and held it together in front of everyone who needed you to. Then you drove home, walked through the door, looked at the kitchen — and couldn't move.Not because you're lazy. Not because you don't care. Because you were already empty.High-performing women carry a hidden cost that nobody names. Every act of focus, every decision, every moment of professional composure draws from the same finite resource. By the time you get home, the account is overdrawn. This is Executive Function Debt — and if you've lived it, you know exactly what it feels like.Brillant at Work, Disaster at Home was written for the woman who has mastered the professional world and quietly struggles with everything behind her own front door.(Yes, the title is misspelled. On purpose. Because if you didn't catch it — or if you did and felt an immediate flash of recognition — you're exactly who this book was written for.)Written by a Director of Technology with 30 years in K–12 education and an ADHD brain, this is not a productivity system. It is not a program. It is not a challenge to do better.It is the survival guide someone should have handed you a long time ago.For women with ADHD — diagnosed, suspected, or simply exhausted in ways you've never been able to explain — this book doesn't ask you to build new habits on top of a depleted brain. It works with the brain you actually have, after the day you actually had.Inside you'll find:The science behind why you can run a department but can't start the dishes — and why that makes complete neurological sense.The Junebugging Method — a home management approach built for the distracted brain, not the Pinterest-organized one.The Launch Pad System that ends the morning panic spiral before it starts.How to survive low-spoon days without shame, and why survival mode is a legitimate strategy.Practical tools for reducing the financial, emotional, and time cost of an ADHD brain operating in a neurotypical world.14 worksheets, rescue cards, and a 30-day action plan designed to be picked up, put down, and picked up again.Good enough is not settling. It is wisdom.Your home doesn't need to look like you have more capacity than you do. Your brain isn't broken — it's been spending itself on the wrong priorities because the world handed you the wrong map.This book is a different map.And yes, “Brillant” is intentional. It reflects the lived ADHD experience: bright, capable, creative, and powerful, even when life does not look polished on the outside.If you have ever wondered why you can thrive at work but struggle so much at home, this book will make you feel seen, understood, and supported. Read more