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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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106 practices
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 50Anger 20Worry and anxiety 17Your body 14Low mood and hard feelings 5
How long you have
A minute 22Five minutes 52Twenty minutes 24Longer 8
Who it is written for
A practitioner 105Someone I care about 75Me 68My husband or wife 1
Where you are right now · Getting ready for something
Coping, mostly 413Struggling right now 106Getting ready for something 106
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 253Involves someone else 106Both of us together 32
Theme
Medication and how it works 19Treatment and medication 10Systems for daily life 8Facing it a step at a time 7Cool the body first 5The moment before you snap 5The cost of avoiding 5Food, caffeine and fuel 4Moving your body 3Making it stick 3Your sense of time 3Choosing your response 3Breathing 3When everything feels flat 3What anger actually is 2Tolerate distress 2Feelings and focus 2Treatment and medication 2Feeling from the inside 1Equanimity and perspective 1What ADHD actually is 1Being seen and judged 1Living with uncertainty 1Structure and routine 1Shame and stigma 1Screens and attention 1Rest and pacing 1Remembering to do it 1Practising under provocation 1Posture and how you carry yourself 1Panic and the body 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Grounding and settling 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Get started 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 40ADHD skills 22CBT 18Body based 10Mindfulness 10Core 6
When
Any ordinary day 66In a change 19Coming and going 17Under stress 4

Changing how the family understands the child comes before the medication, before the charts, before the meeting at school. It is step one, not a friendly introduction to the real work.

Skip it and the behaviour plan still gets written, but it gets delivered with an edge, applied on the good days and abandoned on the bad ones. When…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 20:114

Paediatric and psychiatric bodies have moved towards treating earlier than used to be usual. The reasoning is that the damage builds on itself.

A year of falling behind makes the next year harder, a reputation among classmates is quick to form and slow to shift, and a household that has been…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 39:53

When a decision feels impossible, put a date on it rather than pressing for the commitment. We will try this and look at it again in three months turns a life sentence back into a choice.

Plenty of people hear any decision as permanent, so picking a course or a job or a city feels like sentencing themselves to it. A review date changes…

Five minutesLiving with uncertaintyCBTQur’an 18:23

Explain ADHD to the child themselves, in words they can hold. Something like: your brain is brilliant at things it finds interesting and needs extra help with things it finds boring, and we are going to work out that help together.

Children build an explanation whether or not you give them one, and the one they build is usually about being bad. A short, matter of fact account,…

Five minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 23:12

There is no single correct account of anger that works on everyone. Keep a few to hand and offer the one this person can actually take.

Some people settle the moment they hear that the body moves before thought arrives. Others need it put as an old survival system, or as something…

Five minutesWhat anger actually isCoreQur’an 3:159

One clear explanation is rarely enough. Say the important part again later in different words, and expect to say it again after that.

The thing you most want someone to have in a hot moment is the first thing that goes missing. Reactivity arriving ahead of thought is worth stating…

Five minutesWhat anger actually isCoreQur’an 23:96

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