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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Let the wave come On my own Under stress Clear all

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Theme · Let the wave come

The moment before you snap 30 Cool the body first 30 Grounding and settling 27 Choosing your response 26 Touch and bodywork 22 Your nervous system 20 What anger actually is 18 The fear underneath anger 15 Equanimity and perspective 14 Tolerate distress 10 Breathing 10 Staying regulated in conflict 9 Feelings and focus 9 Feeling from the inside 8 Practising under provocation 7 Medication and how it works 7 Moving your body 7 Making it stick 6 Systems for daily life 6 Bringing the future closer 6 Shame 5 What worry does 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Question the thought 5 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 Facing it a step at a time 4 Shame and stigma 4 Letting it out safely 4 What you are actually defending 4 When everything feels flat 4 Treatment and medication 4 Get started 4 Emotions as signals 3 Calm the body 3 Growing empathy 3 Let the wave come 3 Name what you feel 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Working with anger 3 Safety and grounding 2 Screens and attention 2 Self-compassion 2 Your sense of time 2 Patience and trust 2 Exercise, food and other supports 2 Meaning after harm 2 Knowing your partner 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 When you use something to cope 2 Being seen and judged 2 Answering bids 2 Ride the urge 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Care for yourself in loss 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Affection and touch 1 Remembering to do it 1 Rebuild trust 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Panic and the body 1 Act on your values 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Validate yourself and others 1 What ADHD actually is 1 Listen to the body 1 Reading, numbers and learning differences 1

When grief rises like a wave, let it come and let it pass. Do not brace against it or push it down.

Grief arrives in waves, not a straight line. A wave allowed to rise will also fall. Fighting it is what makes it last.

A minuteLet the wave comeGriefQur’an 2:156

Let yourself weep. Tears over someone you love are not a failure of faith or of strength.

Crying is not the opposite of patience. It is the body grieving honestly, and it passes more cleanly when it is not shamed.

A minuteLet the wave comeGriefQur’an 12:84

Take the sorrow you cannot say to anyone else and pour it out to God, in your own plain words.

You do not have to hold it alone or find the right phrase. Say the raw thing to the One who already knows it.

Five minutesLet the wave comeGriefQur’an 12:86

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