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

4 practices

When you use something to cope Twenty minutes On my own Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 3 Five minutes 8 Twenty minutes 4 Longer 4

Who it is written for

Me 4 A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 3

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 2 Getting ready for something 1 Coping, mostly 1

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 4 Involves someone else 1

Theme · When you use something to cope

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

Approach

DBT skills 3 Medical and treatment 1

There are medicines that make stopping smoking easier, and one of them can sometimes cover a mood or attention problem at the same time. That is a fair thing to ask a doctor about.

All of them carry side effects, so the conversation is a weighing up rather than a yes or no. Go in with what you already know about yourself: how…

Twenty minutesWhen you use something to copeMedical and treatmentQur’an 5:87

When someone keeps doing the risky thing after every explanation, the missing piece is usually not information. The pull is simply louder than the knowledge.

Which means another lecture is mostly wasted breath, while changing what is within reach is not. Fewer bottles in the house, a route home that avoids…

Twenty minutesWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 45:23

Sometimes the drinking or the smoking is not the first problem at all. It is somebody's own treatment for an attention difficulty or an anxiety nobody has looked at yet.

You can usually tell from what it is used for: to speak in a group, to sit still long enough to work, to sleep. Where that is the shape of it, work…

Twenty minutesWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 13:11

Draw your own chart of the moment you usually give in, with the questions you actually ask yourself, and put it where you will see it.

One woman smoking around ten bowls a day made hers as a set of branches: is it a working day, have I been to work, are the errands done, are the…

Twenty minutesWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 16:67

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