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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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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 2Longer 1
Who it is written for · A practitioner
A practitioner 4Someone I care about 3Me 2My husband or wife 1
On your own, or with someone
On my own 2Both of us together 1Involves someone else 1
Theme · Treatment and medication
What anger actually is 21Equanimity and perspective 14The fear underneath anger 12Feelings and focus 11Cool the body first 9Emotions as signals 9Choosing your response 7Screens and attention 6The moment before you snap 6Practising under provocation 6Treatment and medication 4Tolerate distress 4Shame and stigma 3Bringing the future closer 3When you go numb 3What ADHD actually is 3Remembering to do it 3When anger turns to harm 3Your nervous system 2Shame 2Making it stick 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Growing empathy 2The cost of avoiding 2Moving your body 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Grounding and settling 1Breaking the worry loop 1Facing it a step at a time 1Your sense of time 1Righteous anger and perfectionism 1Use your strengths 1What you are actually defending 1
Approach
ADHD skills 2Medical and treatment 2
When · After a row
Any ordinary day 44Coming and going 10In a change 4After a row 4Under stress 2When apart 1

Listen for the sentence that says the child could manage all of this perfectly well if they only decided to. However kindly it is meant, that is the belief to take apart.

It sounds like encouragement and it works like a verdict, because it says the ability was always there and only the willingness was missing. In a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 49:6

The point of explaining ADHD to a parent is to produce a particular kind of parent: one who is kind about it, quick to forgive the day's failures, and willing to make a nuisance of themselves at school.

Those three are results, not manners. Harsh days breed pushing back, pushing back breeds harsher days, and that loop is the main road from ADHD to a…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

Medication does not make somebody care more. It narrows the distance between meaning to do the thing and doing it, and that distance is exactly what the other person has been feeling as being let down.

It helps a couple enormously to have the right name for what has been happening. The intention was real every single time. What went missing was the…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 48:17

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

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