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What happens when a multi-award-winning journalist's six-month manic writing spree lands her in the psych ward - hunting down short yellow pencils and sticky notes like they're contraband? You get this book. Not a memoir. Memoir-adjacent. 250 pages of honest, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud-then-ugly-cry truth from a woman navigating daily life with a cocktail of brain hiccups - written the way a neurodivergent brain actually works. No neat chapters. No tidy bow. Just sticky notes, stubby pencils, and the stuff most people are too ashamed to say out loud. This is a multi-layered art experience - scribbles, constellation connections, Easter eggs hidden in every illustration, fandom references, and rabbit trails that somehow all connect. Because you cannot explain a beautifully haywired mind by putting words alone on a page. Neurotypical readers may get dizzy. Neurodivergent readers will finally feel seen. Along the way you'll meet her Keep Calm and Carry On British husband Philip - still processing what he signed up for - her three daughters the Neurospice Girls, and be invited into her sunshine-yellow and coffee grounds kitchen where she is forever perfecting the art of pyrotechnics. Thank you, ADHD. You are not too much. You are not failing spiritually or as a person because your brain works differently. You were never meant to do this alone. ""Honest. Insightful. Disarmingly funny."" - Deseri Cunningham, Psy.D. ""To read Amber is to know her - and to know her is to love her."" - Deborah R. Maxey, PhD, LPC, LMFT "" ""Room for grace, laughter, and hope - for ourselves and those we love."" - Dr. Michelle Bengtson, board-certified clinical neuropsychologist ""An excellent (and legally questionable) prescription."" - Chris Crain, RPh - Amber's Pharmacist Welcome to the #sisterhoodoftheshortyellowpencils. It's messy. So are we. Let's laugh about it.

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Amber Weigand-Buckley is an author, speaker, podcaster, the multi-award-winning founding editor and art director for Leading Hearts magazine (leadinghearts.com, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (awsa.com) marketing director, Bold Vision Books' creative director, and owner of #barefacedcreativemedia (barefacedcreativemedia.com). The Springfield, Missouri native navigates bipolar and anxiety disorder while embracing her best life. At its peak, her mental illness almost caused her to take her own life. And her journey through stigma and shame has helped her embrace her role as an advocate for mental health who knows that a diagnosis does not disqualify you from leadership.

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