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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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264 practices

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Area

Focus, starting, and ADHD 119Your body 57 Anger 45 Low mood and hard feelings 24 Worry and anxiety 13 After harm 2 Grief and loss 2 Your marriage 2

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 610Five minutes 981Twenty minutes 264Longer 119

Who it is written for

A practitioner 254Me 253Someone I care about 172My husband or wife 11

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 134Struggling right now 80 Getting ready for something 50

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 264Involves someone else 126Both of us together 76

Theme

Systems for daily life 23 Moving your body 17 Medication and how it works 13 Your nervous system 12 Get started 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 What ADHD actually is 10 Treatment and medication 9 What anger actually is 8 Bringing the future closer 7 Screens and attention 7 Your sense of time 7 Touch and bodywork 6 Tolerate distress 6 The moment before you snap 6 Cool the body first 6 Feelings and focus 6 Reading, numbers and learning differences 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Grounding and settling 5 When you use something to cope 4 Exercise, food and other supports 4 Shame 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Remembering to do it 4 When everything feels flat 4 Practising under provocation 3 Emotions as signals 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Shame and stigma 3 Being seen and judged 3 Use your strengths 3 Breathing 3 Choosing your response 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Structure and routine 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Making it stick 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 Letting it out safely 2 Keep the bond 1 Repair after rupture 1 What worry does 1 The cost of avoiding 1 What you are actually defending 1 Rest and pacing 1 Safety and grounding 1 Shared spiritual life 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Treatment and medication 1 Question the thought 1 Listen to the body 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Living with uncertainty 1

Approach

ADHD skills 82 Medical and treatment 57 Body based 36 Core 31 CBT 22 Mindfulness 10 Trauma informed 7 DBT skills 5 Grief 4 Emotionally focused 4 Gottman 3 Narrative 2 Parts work 1

When

Any ordinary day 201Under stress 31 In a change 14 Coming and going 9 After a row 7 When apart 1 Something good 1

Real rest, closeness and unhurried prayer all ask for the same thing: being still while feeling safe. That is harder than it sounds if stillness has ever been dangerous.

It is why some people cope beautifully in a crisis and find a quiet evening unbearable, and why intimacy and slow worship are often the last things…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 78:10

If you cannot feel your own state yet, a device that shows it on a screen can stand in until you can.

Ear clips and phone apps that display your heart rhythm turn something invisible into a light changing colour, and for people who have spent years…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:260

If a practice feels like homework you are failing at, turn it into a game. Some feedback tools do this for you, bringing colour and birdsong to a grey screen as your heart rhythm settles.

Trying hard to relax is a trap. The effort keeps you keyed up, and then you have one more thing to be bad at. Play sidesteps that entirely. It is the…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 16:78

You do not need other people to reach a settled state. Breath, a slow walk somewhere green, a cat asleep on your lap: all of them get you there.

The name social engagement system makes it sound as though company is the only door, which is bleak if you are isolated, and worse if people are the…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:22

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