Philip Lye · Unbowed Health

Practical help when work and life weigh heavy.

No-nonsense e-books for anyone living with ADHD, facing workplace abuse, or dealing with anger, numbness and burnout. Real fixes you can use this week, not just theory.

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Is this you?

Finishing a shift feeling like you've run a marathon inside your own head?

Being undermined, blamed or gaslit at work, and starting to doubt yourself?

Snapping at the people you love, or feeling nothing at all?

Running on empty, and tired of advice that doesn't survive a real week?

If you nodded at any of these, you're in the right place.

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ADHD on Shift: A Practical Guide

For nurses, doctors and anyone working shifts

A$29

35-page PDF · templates included
Reads on phone, tablet and computer

  • A no-nonsense survival guide for nurses and doctors with ADHD
  • Practical fixes for charting, focus and burnout, built around a 12-hour shift
  • Useful for anyone who works shifts, not just healthcare
What's inside

Every chapter ends with a short "Do this" list of practical steps you can try on your next shift.

  • Introduction: You're not lazy, unmotivated or broken
  • 1. Adult ADHD, explained simply: why high achievers so often get missed, and what "masking" really costs
  • 2. Why this job is hard on your brain (and where it shines): the friction points, and the strengths worth protecting
  • 3. The documentation debt: how to stop charting piling up until after your shift ends
  • 4. Taming the 12-hour clock: five anchor points that do the job your internal clock can't
  • 5. Sleep, shift work and your ADHD brain: protecting sleep on a rotating roster
  • 6. Decision fatigue and clinical safety: keeping your judgement steady late in the shift
  • 7. Rejection sensitive dysphoria at work: when one piece of feedback won't let go of you
  • 8. Medication, disclosure and your licence: refills around shift work, telling your workplace, and licensing boards
  • 9. The ADHD tax: the visible and hidden costs, and how to cut them
  • 10. Burnout, overwhelm and getting support: knowing when it's time for more than a better system

Also included: a printable One-Page Shift Card, a plain-English glossary, and further reading.

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The Male Brain Reset

For men facing anger, numbness and burnout

A$29

30-page PDF · templates included
Reads on phone, tablet and computer

  • What neuroscience says about male anger, numbness and burnout, in plain words
  • A 30-day plan with achievable, practical steps
  • Written by someone who has been through it and come out the other side
What's inside

Every chapter ends with a short "Do this" list of simple steps you can start today.

  • Introduction: It's not your willpower. It's your wiring.
  • 1. The alarm system: why anger fires before your thinking brain catches up, and how to build a gap
  • 2. The stress spiral: how long-term stress turns into burnout and that "tired but wired" feeling
  • 3. Testosterone, mood and motivation: the side of testosterone nobody talks about, and when to ask for a blood test
  • 4. The dopamine drought: why you feel numb, and how to reset your baseline
  • 5. Why you can't name it: when feelings come out as anger because there's no word for them
  • 6. Rewiring: how your brain changes with repetition, and the Reset Plan brought together
  • 7. When to get backup: the signs it's time, and how to find help that suits you

Also included: the 30-Day Reset Plan, week by week, a plain-English glossary, further reading, and a personal word from Philip.

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How to Navigate Conflict Zones Responsibly

For independent travellers and field reporters

A$32

30-page PDF
Reads on phone, tablet and computer

  • A grounded, practical guide to travelling and working in and around the Kurdistan Region
  • Visas, currency, culture and places of interest, with dispatches from Jordan and Egypt
  • From an Australian who has been coming to the Middle East since 1979
What's inside
  • Before you read any further: what this guide is, and what it isn't
  • 1. Foundations of responsible travel: checking advisories properly, insurance, check-ins with home, the ethics of photographing people, and what to pack
  • 2. The Kurdistan Region: why the US and UK advisories disagree, e-visas, where to go (Erbil, Duhok, Amedi, Sulaymaniyah, Lalish), checkpoints, fixers, sites of memory, money and bargaining
  • 3. Jordan: Amman as a base, where the caution really applies, refugee-camp areas, money and bargaining
  • 4. Egypt: the resort coast, the Nile Valley, the Sinai's two faces, and visiting Bedouin communities
  • 5. Universal field skills: handling checkpoints, first-aid awareness, digital security at borders, and how risks differ for solo, women and LGBTQ+ travellers

Also included: a printable One-Page Checklist, a glossary, and further resources.

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Unmasking Workplace AbuseComing soon

Unmasking Workplace Abuse

For anyone facing bullying or abuse at work, in any job

Coming soon
  • Unmasks the seven types of workplace abuser: The gaslighterThe credit-takerThe lazy free-riderThe manipulatorThe saboteurThe narcissistThe sociopath and psychopath
  • Plus coaching guides, templates and forms to help you respond
  • For every kind of workplace, from the shop floor to the boardroom
Coming soon

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Philip Lye

About Philip

I'm Philip Lye. My books aren't built on theory. They come from more than 30 years of pain, depression and burnout, and the long road back to wholeness.

I hold a doctorate in cross-cultural training, a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, and I'm a qualified accountant in both the UK and Australia. None of that protected me. I spent years being bullied, gaslit and manipulated at work, until I sought the help I needed to stop it and rebuild. Later, as full-time carer for my late wife Janine, a tetraplegic after three spinal strokes, I met the same patterns again in the care system. I studied medicine and pharmacology independently to hold my ground, and worked through to forgiveness.

Every guide is written for the person living it, and for the person standing beside them.

I also write about travel and culture in the Middle East, including Kurdistan. My field guide, How to Navigate Conflict Zones Responsibly, is in the e-books above.

Follow along on Instagram: @phil_kurdi, or connect with me on LinkedIn.

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