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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5 practices

Exercise, food and other supports Struggling right now On my own Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 3

Who it is written for

Someone I care about 5 A practitioner 5 Me 5

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 26 Getting ready for something 13 Struggling right now 5

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 5 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

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 Screens and attention 14 Your sense of time 14 Food, caffeine and fuel 14 The fear underneath anger 14 Systems for daily life 13 Tolerate distress 13 Obsessions and compulsions 11 Moving your body 11 Medication and how it works 11 Breathing 10 Shame 10 Treatment and medication 10 Feeling from the inside 9 Feelings and focus 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 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 Making it stick 6 Question the thought 6 Bringing the future closer 6 Exercise, food and other supports 5 Structure and routine 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Emotions as signals 4 Remembering to do it 4 Letting it out safely 4 Growing empathy 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

Any ordinary day 3 Under stress 2

Weight across the body settles a lot of people and sends some of them to sleep quickly. It is a preference though, not a remedy, and for others it feels like being closed in.

If you try it, watch what actually happens rather than what is supposed to happen. Some people have wanted pressure, small dark spaces and being…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 25:47

Being told you are too sensitive is usually someone else's comfort talking. Feeling things strongly is not the problem to solve; what to do once the feeling has arrived is.

Both halves have to be said together. Validation on its own leaves a person flooded with permission and no handles. Teaching control on its own joins…

Five minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28

Peripheral biofeedback, the sort that tracks skin conductance and heart rate rather than brainwaves, has more behind it than neurofeedback does. You practise letting the body drop into a calmer state while a monitor shows you it happening.

Once that state is familiar, pair it with a distinctive scent used only for this. After enough repetitions the smell starts pulling the state along…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28

When omega levels are low, everything about ADHD tends to get louder: attention, mood swings, holding things in mind. Low omega does not cause ADHD, but it can be sitting on top of it.

Think of it as one more layer to lift off rather than the thing underneath. Specialist labs can measure levels if it seems worth checking, and…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 23:21

One woman's ADHD symptoms climbed and her thinking slowed as each B12 injection wore off, then settled again after the next one. The deficiency came down one side of her family and the ADHD down the other.

The two lived in the same person without either causing the other. What made it findable was the timing, because difficulties that follow a cycle are…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 23:21

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