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

3 practices

Living with uncertainty Five minutes Me Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 3 Me 3 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 1 Coping, mostly 1 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Living with uncertainty

Medication and how it works 97 Your nervous system 67 What anger actually is 50 Equanimity and perspective 42 The moment before you snap 39 Touch and bodywork 37 Grounding and settling 35 Getting assessed and diagnosed 35 Choosing your response 35 Get started 34 Systems for daily life 34 Your sense of time 32 Exercise, food and other supports 32 Food, caffeine and fuel 30 When everything feels flat 28 Practising under provocation 28 The fear underneath anger 27 What ADHD actually is 26 Bringing the future closer 25 Feelings and focus 25 Screens and attention 23 Moving your body 21 Cool the body first 20 Breathing 18 Shame and stigma 18 Treatment and medication 18 What you are actually defending 16 Feeling from the inside 16 Remembering to do it 15 Breaking the worry loop 15 What worry does 15 Emotions as signals 14 Being seen and judged 14 Growing empathy 13 Structure and routine 13 Making it stick 11 Tolerate distress 11 When you use something to cope 11 Treatment and medication 10 Facing it a step at a time 9 Staying regulated in conflict 9 Obsessions and compulsions 9 Rebuilding trust 9 Righteous anger and perfectionism 8 Knowing your partner 8 Self-compassion 7 Posture and how you carry yourself 6 Shame 6 Listening and understanding 5 Question the thought 5 Shared spiritual life 4 When you go numb 4 Living with uncertainty 3 Rituals of connection 3 Use your strengths 3 When anger turns to harm 3 Meaning after harm 2 Rest and pacing 2 Repair after rupture 2 Work with your brain 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Find meaning 2 Act on your values 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Notice the pattern and flex 1 Help someone grieving 1 Get it out of your head 1 Ask and say no well 1 Affection and touch 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Calm the body 1 Working with anger 1 Your worth is not conditional 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Let the wave come 1 Panic and the body 1

When

In a change 2 Any ordinary day 1

Listen for the condition you have attached to acting: I will apply once I know I will get it, I will go once I know I will like it. If that condition could never actually be met, it is not caution, it is a door you have quietly locked.

From the inside it rarely feels like avoidance. It feels sensible, even responsible, because who would go to all that trouble without knowing. The…

Five minutesLiving with uncertaintyCBTQur’an 31:34

A no is usually information about fit rather than a report on your worth. Some of them have to happen before you can tell which places are right for you.

This is a real reframe rather than a comforting one, because a rejection does carry usable information: about what they were after, about what you…

Five minutesLiving with uncertaintyCBTQur’an 2:216

When a decision feels impossible, put a date on it rather than pressing for the commitment. We will try this and look at it again in three months turns a life sentence back into a choice.

Plenty of people hear any decision as permanent, so picking a course or a job or a city feels like sentencing themselves to it. A review date changes…

Five minutesLiving with uncertaintyCBTQur’an 18:23

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