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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3 practices

Being seen and judged Twenty minutes A practitioner Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 8 Five minutes 13 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 4

Who it is written for · A practitioner

Me 4 A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 2 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Being seen and judged

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

Approach

Narrative 2 CBT 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 1

Build the ladder from what you do now, not from what you think you should be managing. If phone calls are currently impossible, the first rung sits somewhere below a phone call.

Have an honest look first. Which apps you talk on, whether you send voice notes or only type, whether you have ordered anything out loud in the past…

Twenty minutesBeing seen and judgedCBTQur’an 20:26

Social fear usually has a first address. School corridors, a year when appearance decided everything, a group that made a project of you. Knowing where it began does not undo it, but it stops it feeling like a fact about your character.

What often keeps it alive is that the rules of that place travelled with you. The hierarchy ended at graduation and the watchfulness carried on.…

Twenty minutesBeing seen and judgedNarrativeQur’an 24:15

Sometimes the help you need is not insight. It is someone sitting with you while you sort out what actually happened this week and which bit of it mattered.

When anxiety is running at full speed, everything arrives at the same volume and nothing can be ranked. A bad week becomes one undifferentiated bad…

Twenty minutesBeing seen and judgedNarrativeQur’an 15:97

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