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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.

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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 1Twenty minutes 2
Who it is written for · Me
A practitioner 10Someone I care about 4Me 4
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 3Struggling right now 1
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 28Both of us together 18Involves someone else 4
Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Medication and how it works 47Systems for daily life 26Staying regulated in conflict 24Knowing your partner 15Rebuilding trust 14Affection and touch 13Moving your body 13Listening and understanding 12Repair after rupture 11Answering bids 11Rituals of connection 11Shared spiritual life 10Breaking the worry loop 10Food, caffeine and fuel 10The moment before you snap 10Screens and attention 9What anger actually is 8Bringing the future closer 7Choosing your response 7Growing empathy 7Feelings and focus 7Your nervous system 7Treatment and medication 7Grounding and settling 6Get started 6Remembering to do it 6Breathing 6The cost of avoiding 6Equanimity and perspective 5Facing it a step at a time 5Treatment and medication 5Posture and how you carry yourself 5Exercise, food and other supports 5Getting assessed and diagnosed 4When you use something to cope 4When everything feels flat 4Structure and routine 4What ADHD actually is 4What worry does 4Cool the body first 4Practising under provocation 3Emotions as signals 3Your sense of time 3Being seen and judged 3Tolerate distress 3Rest and pacing 2Shame 2Fondness and admiration 2Touch and bodywork 2Panic and the body 2What you are actually defending 2Help someone grieving 2Gratitude 2Ask and say no well 2Making it stick 1Living with uncertainty 1Validate yourself and others 1Safety and grounding 1The fear underneath anger 1When you go numb 1Obsessions and compulsions 1
When
Any ordinary day 2Under stress 1In a change 1

Some of what looks like muddle is the system's fault. Our tenth month is named for eight, because two months were added later and nobody renamed the rest.

Worth saying to anyone who feels stupid about dates and forms. A calendar whose numbers are out of step, a tax year starting in April, forms asking…

A minuteGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 20:26

Home DNA tests turn up relatives nobody expected. If someone is thinking of taking one to fill in a blank family history, it is worth saying out loud that it may hand them more than they asked for.

People find half siblings. Sometimes they find that the story they were told about their birth was not the story. That is a great deal to receive by…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 50:16

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7

Ask whether anyone kept the old school reports. The same lines turn up generation after generation: not working to potential, talks too much, never has the right books with him.

They were written by teachers who had never heard of ADHD, about children nobody was going to assess, and that is exactly what makes them worth…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 96:5

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