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.

Narrowed down

3 practices

Feelings and focus Struggling right now Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

Me 3 Someone I care about 3 A practitioner 2

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 8 Struggling right now 3 Getting ready for something 2

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 9 Both of us together 8 Involves someone else 3

Theme · Feelings and focus

Screens and attention 13 The cost of avoiding 11 Medication and how it works 8 What ADHD actually is 5 Systems for daily life 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 4 Breaking the worry loop 4 What worry does 4 Grounding and settling 4 What anger actually is 3 Remembering to do it 3 Feelings and focus 3 Your nervous system 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Treatment and medication 3 Shame and stigma 2 Emotions as signals 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Moving your body 2 Structure and routine 2 The moment before you snap 2 Touch and bodywork 2 Treatment and medication 1 Shame 1 Your sense of time 1 Rest and pacing 1 Practising under provocation 1 Exercise, food and other supports 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When you go numb 1 Get started 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Growing empathy 1 Food, caffeine and fuel 1 When you use something to cope 1 Cool the body first 1 Choosing your response 1 Bringing the future closer 1

Approach

CBT 2 ADHD skills 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 1

A wave across the road, a joke with the man in the shop, asking someone how they are and meaning it. These unplanned seconds count for more than they look like they should.

They are also the easiest place to start when arranging a proper meet up feels like too much. Almost nothing is at stake in a greeting, so a fear of…

A minuteFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 25:63

If rating a feeling out of ten means nothing to you, use something that does. Colour in bubbles, point at a picture, hold your hands apart to show how big it is today.

This began as an adaptation for children, swapping the numbered anxiety ladder for bubbles to colour in, and it is just as useful for anyone who goes…

Five minutesFeelings and focusCBTQur’an 2:286

When someone has gone flat, the question is not what they ought to be doing. It is what still has any life in it for them, however small or unimpressive, and then how to get more of that.

Activities handed out from the outside do not lift much. Someone who brightens talking about their car, or a cousin, or a game has just given you the…

Twenty minutesFeelings and focusCBTQur’an 94:1

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