Description
Title: Beyond the Edge of Chaos: ADHD, Identity, and the New Science of Thriving
Author: Jon L. Thomas, EdD
Publisher: The ADHD College Success Guidance Program
Language: English
Format: Paperback; 549 pages, (other formats available). Written in a dual-access format designed for both audiences:
- For readers with ADHD: short, story-based sections, visual metaphors, and practical self-reflection tools make complex ideas accessible and engaging.
- For professionals and supporters: integrated models and evidence-based frameworks (such as the Signal Compass, Stress Wagon, and Success Curve), supported by chapter-end annotated bibliographies, provide a rich foundation for coaching, teaching, or clinical use.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9992946-0-9
Audience: Adults with ADHD, college students, and young adults — as well as parents, educators, clinicians, and coaches seeking a strengths-based understanding of ADHD and new tools for helping others thrive.
Beyond the Edge of Chaos reimagines ADHD as a difference in human signal processing — not a defect of willpower. Blending neuroscience, counseling wisdom, and lived experience, Dr. Jon Thomas offers a fresh, hopeful framework for turning chaos into clarity.
Through vivid stories and practical tools like the Signal Compass, Stress Wagon, and Success Curve, readers learn to decode their emotional “signals,” build systems that fit their brains, and restore energy, focus, and meaning to daily life.
More than a survival guide, this is a roadmap for transformation — showing how the very traits that cause struggle can become the keys to creativity, purpose, and thriving.
