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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Touch and bodywork Coping, mostly Involves someone else Clear all

Where you are right now · Coping, mostly

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 2

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 30 Both of us together 6 Involves someone else 2

Theme · Touch and bodywork

Medication and how it works 34 Systems for daily life 24 Staying regulated in conflict 24 The cost of avoiding 20 Moving your body 16 Knowing your partner 15 Rebuilding trust 14 Exercise, food and other supports 13 Affection and touch 13 Listening and understanding 12 Screens and attention 12 Repair after rupture 11 Answering bids 11 Rituals of connection 11 Shared spiritual life 10 Your nervous system 8 What anger actually is 8 Bringing the future closer 8 Feelings and focus 8 Your sense of time 7 Getting assessed and diagnosed 7 Structure and routine 7 Treatment and medication 7 What ADHD actually is 7 Breaking the worry loop 7 Growing empathy 6 Equanimity and perspective 6 What worry does 6 Emotions as signals 5 Get started 5 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 Grounding and settling 4 Breathing 4 When you use something to cope 4 When everything feels flat 4 Treatment and medication 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Choosing your response 3 The moment before you snap 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Touch and bodywork 2 Fondness and admiration 2 Being seen and judged 2 Help someone grieving 2 Ask and say no well 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Shame and stigma 2 What you are actually defending 2 The fear underneath anger 2 Remembering to do it 2 Gratitude 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Panic and the body 2 Tolerate distress 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Safety and grounding 1 Shame 1 Validate yourself and others 1 Cool the body first 1 Practising under provocation 1

You rarely need the whole tour. Pick the one place the tension actually lives for this person today, and work there.

A real session has no room for a long sequence and no need of one. Watch where the holding shows itself: a jaw that never rests, shoulders up near…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 12:93

Keep offering these small practices and people start asking for them. When someone requests one by name, something has changed about who is running their regulation.

Responses also speed up with repetition, so what needed ten minutes in the first month can take two later on. Name that shift out loud when it…

Five minutesTouch and bodyworkBody basedQur’an 48:29

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.