Skip to content

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.

Narrowed down

385 practices

A practitioner Getting ready for something Clear all

Area

Focus, starting, and ADHD 180Anger 97 Your body 69 Worry and anxiety 26 Low mood and hard feelings 13

How long you have

A minute 65 Five minutes 197Twenty minutes 83 Longer 40

Who it is written for · A practitioner

A practitioner 385Me 328Someone I care about 245My husband or wife 7

Where you are right now · Getting ready for something

Coping, mostly 1384Struggling right now 716Getting ready for something 385

On your own, or with someone

On my own 248Involves someone else 105Both of us together 32

Theme

Medication and how it works 47 Food, caffeine and fuel 20 Systems for daily life 19 The moment before you snap 17 Choosing your response 17 Practising under provocation 16 Cool the body first 16 Treatment and medication 14 Exercise, food and other supports 14 What ADHD actually is 14 Reading, numbers and learning differences 13 Facing it a step at a time 12 Getting assessed and diagnosed 12 Your nervous system 12 Your sense of time 11 Bringing the future closer 10 Moving your body 10 Grounding and settling 9 What anger actually is 9 Feelings and focus 8 Making it stick 8 Equanimity and perspective 6 Breathing 6 Remembering to do it 6 Touch and bodywork 5 The cost of avoiding 5 The fear underneath anger 5 When you use something to cope 4 Tolerate distress 4 When everything feels flat 4 Structure and routine 3 Being seen and judged 3 Treatment and medication 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Shame and stigma 3 Get started 2 Screens and attention 2 Use your strengths 1 What you are actually defending 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Shame 1 Self-compassion 1 Rest and pacing 1 Panic and the body 1 Growing empathy 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 122ADHD skills 89 Core 52 CBT 44 Body based 39 Mindfulness 34 DBT skills 2 Gottman 1 Emotionally focused 1 Narrative 1

When

Any ordinary day 287Coming and going 50 In a change 41 Under stress 7

If you want to breathe more slowly, add one count at a time over weeks. Four in and four out this month, five next month, and no hurry after that.

Very slow breathing can bring on air hunger, that feeling of not getting enough, and for some people it tips straight into panic. Good reason to…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:286

Yoga, breath practice, loving kindness, gratitude, forgiveness work, tapping, rubbing your own shoulders: they all seem to move the same dial. Choose whichever one you will actually keep doing.

It is a strangely mixed list, and the mix is the point. If practices that look nothing alike arrive at similar places, then the argument about which…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 33:41

Yoga, slow breathing with feedback, neurofeedback and listening programmes are all aiming at the same target. Pick the one you can actually get to and keep doing.

Because they share a mechanism, they are largely swappable. Cost, travel, waiting lists and whether you enjoy it are legitimate grounds for choosing…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:152

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

Neurofeedback reads your brain's electrical activity through sensors on your scalp and turns it into a game. Nothing goes into your head.

You might watch a plane that flies smoothly when your brain produces the pattern being encouraged and wobbles when it does not. Nobody tells you how…

LongerYour nervous systemMedical and treatmentQur’an 91:7

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