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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Low mood and hard feelings Body based Under stress Clear all

Area · Low mood and hard feelings

Your body 97 Anger 27 Low mood and hard feelings 3

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 3 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now

Getting ready for something 2 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Involves someone else 1

Approach · Body based

Mindfulness 11 DBT skills 9 Trauma informed 7 Emotionally focused 6 Grief 4 Core 4 Body based 3 CBT 3 Medical and treatment 3 Parts work 3

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 9 Under stress 3 After a row 1

Before going towards a hard feeling, decide what will hold you while you are inside it: a way of breathing, a way of standing, a sentence, a person you can picture or ring.

Going in with nothing is not brave, it is flooding, and it teaches your system that feelings really are dangerous. Pick two or three supports in…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 2:153

Whether a feeling is nowhere to be found or far too much, the questions are the same: what breath, what movement, what sentence, what person helps me stay with this?

Numbness and overwhelm look like opposites and they are both a problem of not being able to stay with the material. The same supports work in either…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 94:6

Say it out loud before you start: you decide how much of this you feel, and when. Stopping for a bit is part of the plan, not a failure of it.

Being in charge of the dial is most of what separates useful contact with a hard feeling from being flooded by it again. If you are helping someone,…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 2:286

There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.