<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Holderness, Penn,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Holderness, Penn,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mymcpl/rss/search?query=Holderness%2C%20Penn%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:45:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[ADHD Is Awesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[The must-have resource for anyone who lives with ADHD, either themselves or with an affected family member. Written to appeal to the ADHD brain, ADHD is Awesome is the engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4499578</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4499578</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Penn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4499578110</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Guide to (mostly) Thriving With ADHD</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400338610/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1427376741</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADHD is Awesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD!</strong></p><p><strong>The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).</strong></p><p>You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you're failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome.</p><p>Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it.</p><p>Penn was in college when he was diagnosed with ADHD, although the signs of having a brain that worked just a little bit differently had been there since he was a kid. Rather than view the diagnosis as a curse or give in to feelings of inadequacy or failure, he took a different approach, one that he wants to share with fellow ADHDers and the people who care about them.</p><p>Drawing on their often-hilarious insights and the expertise of doctors, researchers, and specialists; Kim and Penn provide fun, easy-to-digest advice and explanations, including:</p><li>What it's actually like to live with an ADHD brain.</li><li>How to find humor in the pitfalls, sob stories, and unbelievable triumphs (like the time they won The Amazing Race!) that come with ADHD.</li><li>How to tackle the challenges ADHD presents with a positive outlook.</li><li>Targeted tools and techniques to play to your unique strengths.</li><li>Fun extras like ADHD Bingo, an ode to cargo pants, and what the world would look like if ADHDers were in charge.</li><p>Take it from Penn: Having ADHD can be scary, but it comes with incredible upsides, including creativity, hyperfocus, and energy. You might even say it's kind of awesome. Whether you have ADHD or want to support someone else in their journey, this is the guide you need to make the life you want.</p>]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9974287</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9974287</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9974287980</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400338627/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All You Can Be With ADHD]]></title><description><![CDATA["An empowering and joyful picture book that invites young readers to join the ADHD Club-a celebration of creativity, resilience, and the endless possibilities that come with thinking differently!"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4671113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4671113</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Penn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4671113110</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316597678/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1516185672</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody Fights]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller!</strong></p><p><strong>Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood.</strong></p><p>We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it?</p><p>For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight or a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom?</p><p>With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their 10 most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and successfully close hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle—and maybe laugh a little more along the way.</p><p>In Everybody Fights, couples will learn how to:</p><li>Use "magic words" for healthy conflict resolution</li><li>Address unspoken and unrealistic expectations</li><li>Banish the three Ds of unhealthy communication—distraction, denial, and delay</li><li>Carry individual baggage while helping your partner deal with theirs</li><p>Penn and Kim want you to know you're not alone. Everybody fights. Marriage is messy. Marriage is work. But marriage is worth it. Fight for it!</p>]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5573771</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5573771</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Kim, Holderness, Penn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5573771980</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>So Why Not Get Better at It?</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780785235743/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADHD Is Awesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[The must-have resource for anyone who lives with ADHD, either themselves or with an affected family member. Written to appeal to the ADHD brain, ADHD is Awesome is the engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4645538</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4645538</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Penn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4645538110</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Guide to (mostly) Thriving With ADHD</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781401662622/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADHD is Awesome]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Read by the authors.</strong></p><p><strong>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD!</strong></p><p><strong>The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).</strong></p><p>You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you're failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome.</p><p>Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it.</p><p>Penn was in college when he was diagnosed with ADHD, although the signs of having a brain that worked just a little bit differently had been there since he was a kid. Rather than view the diagnosis as a curse or give in to feelings of inadequacy or failure, he took a different approach, one that he wants to share with fellow ADHDers and the people who care about them.</p><p>Drawing on their often-hilarious insights and the expertise of doctors, researchers, and specialists; Kim and Penn provide fun, easy-to-digest advice and explanations, including:</p><li>What it's actually like to live with an ADHD brain.</li><li>How to find humor in the pitfalls, sob stories, and unbelievable triumphs (like the time they won The Amazing Race!) that come with ADHD.</li><li>How to tackle the challenges ADHD presents with a positive outlook.</li><li>Targeted tools and techniques to play to your unique strengths.</li><li>Fun extras like ADHD Bingo, an ode to cargo pants, and what the world would look like if ADHDers were in charge.</li><p> </p><p>Take it from Penn: Having ADHD can be scary, but it comes with incredible upsides, including creativity, hyperfocus, and energy. You might even say it's kind of awesome. Whether you have ADHD or want to support someone else in their journey, this is the guide you need to make the life you want.</p>]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9955871</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9955871</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9955871980</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400338634/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody Fights]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller!</strong></p><p><strong>Learn how to fight better and end your arguments with your partner feeling closer, more loved, and better understood.</strong></p><p>We take our cars in for oil changes. We mow our lawns and pull weeds. Why don't we do maintenance on our marriages? This relationship is the most important one we will ever have, so why not get better at it?</p><p>For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness of The Holderness Family have done the hard maintenance and the research to learn how to fight better. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight or a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom?</p><p>With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their 10 most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and successfully close hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle—and maybe laugh a little more along the way.</p><p>In Everybody Fights, couples will learn how to:</p><li>Use "magic words" for healthy conflict resolution</li><li>Address unspoken and unrealistic expectations</li><li>Banish the three Ds of unhealthy communication—distraction, denial, and delay</li><li>Carry individual baggage while helping your partner deal with theirs</li><p>Penn and Kim want you to know you're not alone. Everybody fights. Marriage is messy. Marriage is work. But marriage is worth it. Fight for it!</p>]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5572527</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5572527</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Kim, Holderness, Penn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5572527980</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>So Why Not Get Better at It?</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780785235750/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody Fights]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the last several years, Penn and Kim Holderness have done the hard maintenance and the research. With the help of their marriage coach Dr. Christopher Edmonston, they break down their biggest (and in some cases, funniest) fights. How did a question about chicken wings turn into a bra fight (no, not a bar fight; a bra fight)? How did a roll of toilet paper lead to tears, resentment, and a stint in the guest bedroom?  With their trademark sense of humor and complete vulnerability, Penn and Kim share their ten most common Fight Fails and how to combat them. Throughout the book, they offer scripts for how to start, continue, and wrap up hard conversations. Couples will emerge equipped to engage and understand, not do battle--and maybe laugh a little more along the way.]]></description><link>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4071998</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S110C4071998</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holderness, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://mymcpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4071998110</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>So Why Not Get Better at It?</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780785235729/MC.GIF&amp;client=mconpublib&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1235847711</image_url></item></channel></rss>