4 Missing Letters

By: Dr. Staci Ekblad, PhD

Description: 

What if you weren’t broken—you were just missing four letters?

For years, Dr. Staci Ekblad, PhD thought she was simply trying harder than everyone else to keep up with life.

She was a psychotherapist, wife, mother, and high-functioning adult who had spent years helping other people understand their emotions and behaviors. Yet behind the scenes, everyday life could feel strangely difficult. She overthought. Overcommitted. Lost track of time. Struggled to start simple tasks. Felt emotions intensely. Created elaborate systems that worked—until they didn’t.

And she kept wondering:

Why does everything feel harder than it seems like it should?

At 46, she discovered the answer: ADHD.

Those four missing letters didn’t magically fix everything. But they gave her something she had been searching for all along—an explanation.

In 4 Missing Letters, Dr. Staci Ekblad combines personal stories, professional insight, humor, and practical tools to explore what ADHD can actually look like in everyday life. From the planner graveyard and time blindness to task paralysis, sensory hypersensitivity, dopamine seeking, emotional overload, decision fatigue, parenting, relationships, and the never-ending side quests of an ADHD brain, she invites readers to look beyond the stereotypes.

Sometimes, you're simply missing information.

You weren’t broken. You were missing four letters.