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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.
In any quiet practice, dhikr, prayer, sitting still, your mind will go. The practice is not staying put. It is noticing you have gone and coming back, however many times that turns out to be.
Set the bar at a length you can actually manage, two or three minutes to begin with, rather than the twenty minutes somebody recommended. Counting on…
Plenty of adults with ADHD keep tripping over rules nobody ever stated: how long a turn in a conversation lasts, when a story has gone on too long, when a joke reads differently than you meant it.
You can learn these the way you would learn anything else you were not taught. Ask one person you trust to tell you plainly what they notice, since…
Eating and body image are part of this for more people than you would think. Forgetting meals all day and then eating without stopping in the evening is a very ordinary ADHD pattern rather than a separate failing.
The useful move is usually to eat by the clock rather than by hunger, since the signal arrives late or not at all when you are absorbed. Put one…
Keep two or three trustworthy places to read about ADHD and go there first. Confident, tidy explanations online are easy to find, and most of them have nobody checking them.
Look for organisations that cite their sources and say when something is uncertain, and treat a personal account as a personal account rather than as…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
ADHD tends to surface at the points where life asks for more organising: a new school year with seven teachers, the first term at university, a first job, a promotion into managing other people.
The pattern is always the same. Something that was holding things together is removed, or the amount you have to run yourself goes up, and what was…