Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults

On Sale: Apr 14, 2026
Page Count: 240 pages
Publisher: Balance
ISBN-13: 9781538773086

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Therapist and author of Already Enough, Lisa Olivera blends her own personal experience of living with depression with therapeutic wisdom in a moving exploration of the emotional pain each of us lives with to offer readers guidance on holding the ache alongside the beauty

Emotional pain, of all kinds and magnitudes, is part of life. We’ll never be able to find ourselves free of it; no meditation or amount of therapy will cure us of the harder parts of being alive. The practice of turning toward the ache with care – reverence, even – might be one of the most meaningful gifts we can give ourselves. It might even save us.

Lisa Olivera has confronted this reality for years as a therapist, weaving her exploration of it throughout her popular Substack newsletter, Human Stuff. She asks questions like, how do we confront and tend to the painful parts of being human without letting that pain entirely overtake us? How do we find joy even when depression visits, even when we lose someone we love, even when another war breaks out somewhere in this crumbling, brutal world? How do we cultivate aliveness in the midst?

When The Ache Remains explores these questions for readers in a tender and wise exploration of how ache shapes life, how we can alchemize our pain into medicine, and how presence is accessible even in the midst of difficulty. Blending deeply personal narrative, humanistic psychology, lessons from nature, words of nourishment, and her naturally poetic undertone, Lisa invites readers on a journey alongside her as she explores the impact of depression and the process of learning to tend to it, and all of our aches, in more open, integrative, and loving ways.

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Caroline Maguire

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Caroline Maguire is an in-demand expert in social emotional learning, and a sought-after key-note speaker with more than 200 speaking engagements at organizations and schools each year, including Moms 2.0 Conference, International Conference on ADHD, and the Association of Speech Pathologists. As a Neurodivergent person with ADHD, dyslexia and learning disabilities, she’s also been a featured TEDx speaker and keynote presenter at the International Conference on ADHD. She lives in Massachusetts.

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