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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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Area

Focus, starting, and ADHD 224Your body 75 Anger 58 Worry and anxiety 37 Low mood and hard feelings 31

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 586Five minutes 1297Twenty minutes 425Longer 177

Who it is written for · A practitioner

A practitioner 425Me 380Someone I care about 304My husband or wife 57

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 226Struggling right now 116Getting ready for something 83

On your own, or with someone

On my own 254Involves someone else 100Both of us together 71

Theme

Systems for daily life 37 Medication and how it works 30 Moving your body 26 Treatment and medication 18 What ADHD actually is 17 Screens and attention 17 Getting assessed and diagnosed 17 Get started 16 Feelings and focus 16 The cost of avoiding 15 Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Your nervous system 14 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Exercise, food and other supports 10 Your sense of time 9 What anger actually is 9 Bringing the future closer 8 Touch and bodywork 8 The moment before you snap 8 Tolerate distress 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Grounding and settling 6 Emotions as signals 6 Shame 6 Cool the body first 6 Breathing 5 Remembering to do it 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Shame and stigma 5 When you use something to cope 5 When everything feels flat 5 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 Choosing your response 4 Growing empathy 4 When anger turns to harm 4 What worry does 4 Making it stick 3 Practising under provocation 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Being seen and judged 3 Structure and routine 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Use your strengths 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Letting it out safely 2 Treatment and medication 1 Living with uncertainty 1 What you are actually defending 1 Rest and pacing 1 Question the thought 1

Approach

ADHD skills 137Medical and treatment 99 CBT 54 Core 54 Body based 42 Mindfulness 11 Emotionally focused 7 DBT skills 6 Trauma informed 6 Gottman 3 Parts work 2 Narrative 2 Grief 2

When

Any ordinary day 313Under stress 47 In a change 27 After a row 18 Coming and going 16 When apart 4

If you are the person who steadies every room, ask yourself when a room last steadied you.

Some people are very good at this because they were handed the job at six years old, in a house where somebody had to keep everyone level. It becomes…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 28:73

Real rest, closeness and unhurried prayer all ask for the same thing: being still while feeling safe. That is harder than it sounds if stillness has ever been dangerous.

It is why some people cope beautifully in a crisis and find a quiet evening unbearable, and why intimacy and slow worship are often the last things…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 78:10

If you cannot feel your own state yet, a device that shows it on a screen can stand in until you can.

Ear clips and phone apps that display your heart rhythm turn something invisible into a light changing colour, and for people who have spent years…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:260

If a practice feels like homework you are failing at, turn it into a game. Some feedback tools do this for you, bringing colour and birdsong to a grey screen as your heart rhythm settles.

Trying hard to relax is a trap. The effort keeps you keyed up, and then you have one more thing to be bad at. Play sidesteps that entirely. It is the…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 16:78

You do not need other people to reach a settled state. Breath, a slow walk somewhere green, a cat asleep on your lap: all of them get you there.

The name social engagement system makes it sound as though company is the only door, which is bleak if you are isolated, and worse if people are the…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:22

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