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

2 practices

Breaking the worry loop Twenty minutes On my own Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 9 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 1

Who it is written for

Someone I care about 2 Me 2 A practitioner 2

On your own, or with someone · On my own

Involves someone else 4 On my own 2

Theme · Breaking the worry loop

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

Ask one question about the worry: is there something to be done here that has not been done? If yes, make the plan. If the plan already exists, or there is nothing to plan, the worry gets no more of your time.

Making a study timetable is useful once. Making it for the fourth time is worry wearing the clothes of work. The test is not how serious the topic is…

Twenty minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 3:159

Online you can edit, delete, mute and leave. People who have done most of their socialising that way often find ordinary company unbearable, because ordinary company cannot be controlled.

If that describes you, the answer is not to become a different sort of person. It is practice in rooms you cannot manage: a class, a job with shifts,…

Twenty minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 29:45

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