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.

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Exercise, food and other supports Five minutes Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 8 Twenty minutes 4 Longer 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 8 Someone I care about 7 Me 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 7 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 31 Involves someone else 8

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

Medication and how it works 43 The cost of avoiding 15 Screens and attention 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 10 Rebuilding trust 8 Bringing the future closer 8 Your nervous system 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Your sense of time 8 Moving your body 8 Exercise, food and other supports 8 What worry does 7 Knowing your partner 7 Treatment and medication 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Remembering to do it 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Listening and understanding 5 Feelings and focus 5 Choosing your response 5 When everything feels flat 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Cool the body first 5 Emotions as signals 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 Structure and routine 4 When you use something to cope 4 The moment before you snap 4 Growing empathy 3 Rituals of connection 3 Shared spiritual life 3 Tolerate distress 3 Touch and bodywork 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Food, caffeine and fuel 3 Being seen and judged 2 Grounding and settling 2 Get started 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Panic and the body 2 Shame and stigma 2 Shame 2 Treatment and medication 2 Practising under provocation 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Rest and pacing 1 Breathing 1 Repair after rupture 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Affection and touch 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Making it stick 1 Help someone grieving 1 When you go numb 1 What you are actually defending 1 The fear underneath anger 1 Ask and say no well 1

When

Any ordinary day 7 Under stress 1

When a parent is set on something that will not hold, one honest story often lands better than a pile of studies. A family finished the better part of a year of neurofeedback and watched their child slide back to where he started within weeks.

Told plainly, with no note of triumph in it, a story like that raises durability without telling a parent they were foolish. They were not foolish.…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Saying that something does not work leaves a parent holding the same worry that sent them looking in the first place. Say what the time and money would buy instead, and put exercise at the top of the list.

The energy behind an unevidenced treatment is usually love with nowhere to go, and if it is not given somewhere to go it moves on to the next…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 67:15

Ask which direction a person's sensory difficulty runs before offering anything. Someone who is under responsive needs more input and someone who is over responsive needs less, and the wrong one makes the day harder.

The under responsive child is the one climbing, chewing, pressing into things, hunting for sensation in order to feel settled. The over responsive…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 28:73

Keep something to eat and drink within reach for hard conversations. Handing someone a biscuit and a glass of water often settles a room faster than any instruction does.

Part of why it works is that nobody has to be told how. A person too wound up to follow a breathing exercise can still take a sip and chew. Sharing…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:57

Ask what someone takes that is not food, rather than asking what medications they are on. People do not file their supplements under drugs, so the usual question comes back empty.

There is a case worth carrying around for this. A liver transplant patient kept rejecting the organ, and it turned out he was quietly taking…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 16:69

More clinicians now raise supplements themselves, and more of them will suggest something like omegas. The shift matters less for what gets recommended and more for what it does to disclosure.

People hide what they expect to be laughed at. Someone braced for an eye roll simply does not mention the four bottles in the kitchen cupboard, and…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

Sensory integration training is popular and it does not help ADHD. Whatever value it has elsewhere, the capacity it works on is not the one that is impaired here.

What is impaired in ADHD is holding back a response and steering your own behaviour over time. Sensory modulation is a different thing altogether.…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 53:39

A child can learn a self control routine beautifully in the therapy room and not use it once all week at school. Knowing the steps and performing them under pressure are two different skills.

This is why supports that sit in the moment tend to beat supports that sit in the mind. A prompt at the point of need, a changed seat, a rule the…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 73:20

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