Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

4 practices

Remembering to do it A practitioner Involves someone else Clear all

Who it is written for · A practitioner

Me 6 My husband or wife 4 A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 3

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 2 Coping, mostly 1 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 17 Involves someone else 4 Both of us together 1

Theme · Remembering to do it

Medication and how it works 61 Systems for daily life 37 The cost of avoiding 35 Screens and attention 26 Moving your body 21 Treatment and medication 19 Exercise, food and other supports 15 What ADHD actually is 13 What anger actually is 12 Feelings and focus 11 Breaking the worry loop 11 Your nervous system 10 Structure and routine 10 What worry does 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Facing it a step at a time 10 Getting assessed and diagnosed 10 Your sense of time 10 The moment before you snap 9 Grounding and settling 9 Bringing the future closer 8 Get started 7 Breathing 7 Choosing your response 7 Cool the body first 7 Emotions as signals 7 Growing empathy 7 Equanimity and perspective 7 When everything feels flat 7 Treatment and medication 7 Reading, numbers and learning differences 6 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Shame and stigma 5 When you use something to cope 5 Tolerate distress 4 Touch and bodywork 4 Remembering to do it 4 Being seen and judged 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Practising under provocation 3 Panic and the body 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Making it stick 3 Rest and pacing 2 The fear underneath anger 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Shame 2 Living with uncertainty 1 When you go numb 1

When

After a row 2 Any ordinary day 2

Saying it is done when it is not is a common next step, and it makes more sense than it looks. The lie is rarely about the parcel, it is a way out of the look on somebody's face.

It also makes everything worse, because being found out turns a forgotten task into a trust problem, and that is a much longer repair. If this is…

Five minutesRemembering to do itADHD skillsQur’an 2:283

Somebody should ask the boring question: is there a list at all, anywhere? It gets skipped for being too obvious to ask, which is how a person can go years with nothing.

The format does not matter: Outlook, a notes app, the back of an envelope kept in one place. What matters is that intentions live somewhere outside…

Five minutesRemembering to do itADHD skillsQur’an 12:47

You will still forget things. What decides how much damage a missed task does is usually the ten minutes after you notice, not the miss itself.

Two moves reliably make it worse: sinking into shame until you cannot look at the person, and defending yourself as though nothing had been dropped.…

Five minutesRemembering to do itADHD skillsQur’an 18:24

The standard was never that you drop nothing. It is that the effort is steady and visible, and the misses that remain get some grace.

This matters as much for the person waiting on you as it does for you. Perfection gives them nothing to notice and gives you nothing to reach, so…

Five minutesRemembering to do itADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

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