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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
Five minutes 4Longer 1
Who it is written for · A practitioner
A practitioner 5Me 5Someone I care about 3
Where you are right now
Struggling right now 2Coping, mostly 2Getting ready for something 1
On your own, or with someone
On my own 4Involves someone else 1
Theme · Your nervous system
Systems for daily life 15Medication and how it works 14What ADHD actually is 13When everything feels flat 8Getting assessed and diagnosed 6The cost of avoiding 5Your nervous system 5Treatment and medication 4Moving your body 4Bringing the future closer 3Treatment and medication 3Your sense of time 3Being seen and judged 2When you use something to cope 2Self-compassion 2Living with uncertainty 2Use your strengths 1Reading, numbers and learning differences 1Making it stick 1Get started 1Feelings and focus 1Equanimity and perspective 1Food, caffeine and fuel 1Breathing 1Obsessions and compulsions 1What you are actually defending 1Touch and bodywork 1Structure and routine 1Shame and stigma 1Remembering to do it 1Panic and the body 1
Approach
Body based 3Medical and treatment 2
When · In a change
Any ordinary day 87Under stress 23In a change 5After a row 2Coming and going 1When apart 1

A skill that lives in your own body and your own phone stays with you after the appointments stop. That is worth choosing for.

Plenty of what helps during treatment ends when the relationship does. This does not. People often say afterwards that the breathing thing was the…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 50:16

Neurofeedback usually starts with an assessment, then a block of sessions, then a review, and it is mostly paid for privately. Ask about all of that before you begin.

It is a referral rather than something your therapist adds to a session, so you are taking on a second appointment, a second bill and a second…

Five minutesYour nervous systemMedical and treatmentQur’an 78:11

Feeling worse as things get safer is confusing, and it is common. When the guard finally comes down, whatever it was holding down gets felt.

This shows up when someone starts a calming practice, or moves somewhere safer, and instead of relief they get grief, irritability or a wave of old…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 94:1

Getting ill the week after the exams, the deadline or the funeral is not bad luck. It is the pattern.

You hold together through the push, and the moment it stops you are in bed with something. Often it was already brewing while you were still going.…

Five minutesYour nervous systemMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:2

When someone finally reaches somewhere safe, do not be surprised if they fall apart rather than bloom. Stay close through that part.

People who have lived on high alert often start grieving once the danger stops, and it can look like going backwards: more tears, more fear about the…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 106:4

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.