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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43 practices

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How long you have

A minute 5 Five minutes 21 Twenty minutes 9 Longer 8

Who it is written for

A practitioner 38 Someone I care about 33 Me 29 My husband or wife 4

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 27 Struggling right now 10 Getting ready for something 6

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 43 Involves someone else 20 Both of us together 8

Theme · Treatment and medication

Your nervous system 108What anger actually is 83 Medication and how it works 83 The moment before you snap 76 Choosing your response 73 Get started 65 Systems for daily life 62 Grounding and settling 60 Equanimity and perspective 57 The fear underneath anger 57 Cool the body first 55 Your sense of time 52 Touch and bodywork 52 Food, caffeine and fuel 49 What ADHD actually is 49 Moving your body 48 Bringing the future closer 46 When everything feels flat 44 Exercise, food and other supports 44 Treatment and medication 43 Getting assessed and diagnosed 42 Feelings and focus 38 Practising under provocation 36 Staying regulated in conflict 36 Screens and attention 31 Shame and stigma 30 Making it stick 29 Breathing 28 Structure and routine 25 Treatment and medication 24 What worry does 24 Feeling from the inside 23 Tolerate distress 23 Being seen and judged 22 What you are actually defending 21 Remembering to do it 20 Growing empathy 20 When you use something to cope 19 Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Breaking the worry loop 13 Answering bids 13 Righteous anger and perfectionism 13 Obsessions and compulsions 13 Fondness and admiration 13 Self-compassion 12 Emotions as signals 12 Question the thought 11 Facing it a step at a time 11 Shame 10 Knowing your partner 10 Use your strengths 9 Anger, alcohol and the body 8 Posture and how you carry yourself 8 Repair after rupture 8 Shared spiritual life 7 Gratitude 7 When anger turns to harm 7 Meaning after harm 4 Letting it out safely 4 When you go numb 4 Living with uncertainty 4 Calm the body 3 Safety and grounding 3 Notice the pattern and flex 3 Name what you feel 3 Act on your values 3 Let the wave come 3 Your worth is not conditional 3 Working with anger 3 Rest and pacing 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Affection and touch 2 Your window of tolerance 2 Rituals of connection 2 Ride the urge 2 Patience and trust 2 Panic and the body 2 Listen to the body 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Work with your brain 2 Keep the bond 2 Hold a boundary 2 Get it out of your head 2 Find meaning 2 Face it gently 2 Care for yourself in loss 2 Listening and understanding 1 Validate yourself and others 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 26 ADHD skills 11 CBT 4 Core 2

When

Any ordinary day 34 Coming and going 6 After a row 2 In a change 1

When a child with ADHD and a parent get stuck in daily rows, the rows themselves start doing damage. Getting the ADHD properly managed early takes some heat out of those exchanges before defiance settles in as a habit.

The chain people worry about runs from constant friction at home to entrenched defiance, and from there to difficulties in the teenage years that are…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

The therapy that helps adult ADHD is not really about arguing with your thoughts. It is practical work on how your week is built, and it works because you are the one who can go and rebuild it.

Sessions tend to circle the same handful of things. Where the list lives, what the calendar actually does when you are not looking at it, how a large…

LongerTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 2:286

The trouble now is not that nothing works. It is that the things which work are spread unevenly, and whether a family gets any of them depends heavily on where they happen to live.

Medication travels reasonably well, since a prescriber can be found in most places. The psychological and behavioural work travels badly, because it…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 16:69

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