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106 practices
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 54Worry and anxiety 21Your body 17Anger 9Low mood and hard feelings 5
How long you have
A minute 19Five minutes 55Twenty minutes 21Longer 11
Who it is written for
A practitioner 101Someone I care about 83Me 69My husband or wife 13
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Coping, mostly 413Getting ready for something 106Struggling right now 106
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 563Involves someone else 106Both of us together 62
Theme
Screens and attention 13The cost of avoiding 11Medication and how it works 8Systems for daily life 5What ADHD actually is 5What worry does 4Grounding and settling 4Reading, numbers and learning differences 4Breaking the worry loop 4Your nervous system 3What anger actually is 3Feelings and focus 3Remembering to do it 3Posture and how you carry yourself 3Treatment and medication 3Structure and routine 2Emotions as signals 2Moving your body 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2The moment before you snap 2Shame and stigma 2Touch and bodywork 2When you use something to cope 1Cool the body first 1Choosing your response 1Bringing the future closer 1Treatment and medication 1Shame 1Your sense of time 1Rest and pacing 1Practising under provocation 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Obsessions and compulsions 1When you go numb 1Get started 1Feeling from the inside 1Growing empathy 1Food, caffeine and fuel 1
Approach
ADHD skills 28CBT 24Core 18Medical and treatment 17Body based 14Emotionally focused 4Gottman 1
When
Under stress 39Any ordinary day 36After a row 18In a change 6When apart 4Coming and going 3

Sourness, shutting down, snapping at everyone: these are as often worry as they are attitude. The person is not giving you a hard time, they are having one.

This matters because of what happens next. Read it as rudeness and the house responds with punishment, which adds to the load that produced the…

Five minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 41:36

When you help someone rethink a frightening thought, go slowly and stay honest. A cheerful line swapped in for a scared one tends to get refused, and fairly so.

The aim is not a brighter thought but a truer one that is also bearable. Something in the shape of "this is going to feel horrible and I can get…

Five minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 3:159

Sometimes there really is evidence for the fear. Say so. The balance comes from the other column being fuller, not from pretending the first column is empty.

Children are being bullied, are laughed at, do get things wrong in front of everyone. If you wave that away, they learn the exercise is fixed and…

Twenty minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 53:28

Reaching for another person when you are wound up is not a distraction from coping. Contact can turn the alarm down at the source.

This is why a short call, a message to someone who knows you, or sitting in the same room as family is worth doing before you get as far as the…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 13:28

When you cannot settle yourself, borrow somebody else's steadiness. Sitting near a calm person, even without talking, is a real thing to try.

Choose by effect rather than by closeness. Some people you love leave you more wound up than you started, and some people you barely know are easy to…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:248

When someone finally reaches somewhere safe, do not be surprised if they fall apart rather than bloom. Stay close through that part.

People who have lived on high alert often start grieving once the danger stops, and it can look like going backwards: more tears, more fear about the…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 106:4

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