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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A minute 3 Five minutes 12 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 4

Who it is written for · A practitioner

Someone I care about 3 A practitioner 3 Me 2

Theme · When you use something to cope

Cool the body first 34 The moment before you snap 34 Choosing your response 30 Grounding and settling 28 What anger actually is 26 Your nervous system 25 Medication and how it works 24 Systems for daily life 23 The fear underneath anger 22 Treatment and medication 18 Bringing the future closer 18 Get started 18 Equanimity and perspective 17 Your sense of time 17 Making it stick 14 Structure and routine 14 Practising under provocation 14 Touch and bodywork 13 Growing empathy 13 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 Feelings and focus 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 When everything feels flat 9 Breathing 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 Moving your body 9 Treatment and medication 8 Being seen and judged 8 What ADHD actually is 8 The cost of avoiding 8 Tolerate distress 7 Shame and stigma 6 Screens and attention 6 What worry does 6 What you are actually defending 5 Remembering to do it 5 Shame 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Feeling from the inside 5 Emotions as signals 5 Facing it a step at a time 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 When you use something to cope 3 Self-compassion 3 When anger turns to harm 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Question the thought 2 Panic and the body 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Letting it out safely 1 When you go numb 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Rest and pacing 1

Not feeling sleepy is not the same as not being affected. Younger drinkers often stay awake through a great deal more than their body is actually handling.

The tiredness that ends an older person's night arrives much later, so the evening runs on and the amount climbs with it. Which is why a limit has to…

A minuteWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 7:31

A tablet is not safer because of where it started out. Taken by someone it was never prescribed for, it is simply an unprescribed drug.

Borrowed stimulants get treated as harmless because a doctor's name is on the box somewhere. The dose was worked out for another person's body and…

A minuteWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 2:168

When someone tells you how much they use, take it as a floor rather than a total. Then keep that adjustment to yourself.

Under-reporting is rarely a lie. There is legal risk, there is shame, and there is genuinely losing count. So plan around a larger figure than the…

A minuteWhen you use something to copeDBT skillsQur’an 12:53

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