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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2 practices

Reading, numbers and learning differences Struggling right now On my own Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

Someone I care about 2 A practitioner 2 Me 1

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Getting ready for something 10 Struggling right now 2 Coping, mostly 2

On your own, or with someone · On my own

Both of us together 5 Involves someone else 4 On my own 2

Theme · Reading, numbers and learning differences

Your nervous system 44 What anger actually is 31 Grounding and settling 30 Cool the body first 26 The moment before you snap 24 Get started 23 Touch and bodywork 19 Choosing your response 17 When everything feels flat 17 Shame and stigma 16 Equanimity and perspective 16 What ADHD actually is 15 Food, caffeine and fuel 14 Your sense of time 14 The fear underneath anger 14 Screens and attention 14 Systems for daily life 13 Tolerate distress 13 Medication and how it works 11 Obsessions and compulsions 11 Moving your body 11 Breathing 10 Shame 10 Treatment and medication 10 Feelings and focus 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 9 Feeling from the inside 9 Being seen and judged 8 When you use something to cope 8 Practising under provocation 7 Treatment and medication 7 What worry does 7 Bringing the future closer 6 Question the thought 6 Making it stick 6 Exercise, food and other supports 5 Structure and routine 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Growing empathy 4 Remembering to do it 4 Letting it out safely 4 Emotions as signals 4 When you go numb 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Self-compassion 3 Living with uncertainty 3 What you are actually defending 3 Facing it a step at a time 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Panic and the body 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Use your strengths 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Righteous anger and perfectionism 1 Rest and pacing 1

When

In a change 1 Under stress 1

Some people get all the way to university before anything is named, then meet eighty pages of reading a night and cannot do it. Nothing broke that night. The volume simply outgrew a way of coping that had held for years.

The history reads the same way every time afterwards: always needed longer, avoided reading aloud, dreaded timed tests, stomach trouble in exam…

Five minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 2:286

A child who cannot bear the noise, the lights and the scratchy jumper all day will be hard to be around by the afternoon. That child usually gets described as badly behaved rather than as overwhelmed.

Once a child is understood to be choosing it, everything that follows is punishment, the arousal climbs, and the sensory difficulty gets worse. That…

Twenty minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 49:11

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