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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How long you have · Five minutes

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 4

Who it is written for · Me

Me 3 A practitioner 2 Someone I care about 1 My husband or wife 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Use your strengths

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 Choosing your response 35 Getting assessed and diagnosed 35 Get started 34 Systems for daily life 34 Exercise, food and other supports 32 Your sense of time 32 Food, caffeine and fuel 30 Practising under provocation 28 When everything feels flat 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 Feeling from the inside 16 What you are actually defending 16 What worry does 15 Remembering to do it 15 Breaking the worry loop 15 Being seen and judged 14 Emotions as signals 14 Growing empathy 13 Structure and routine 13 Making it stick 11 When you use something to cope 11 Tolerate distress 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 Shame 6 Posture and how you carry yourself 6 Question the thought 5 Listening and understanding 5 When you go numb 4 Shared spiritual life 4 Living with uncertainty 3 Use your strengths 3 When anger turns to harm 3 Rituals of connection 3 Work with your brain 2 Rest and pacing 2 Repair after rupture 2 Meaning after harm 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 window of tolerance 1 Your worth is not conditional 1 Let the wave come 1 Panic and the body 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 After a row 1

A calm, undemanding life is supposed to be the goal, and for a lot of people with ADHD it is quietly unbearable. Comfort does not hold you. Something with a bit of pull to it does.

This is worth knowing when you are building a plan around less: fewer commitments, lighter workload, nothing too taxing. Take out all the demand and…

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 17:84

A relationship with no friction in it can leave an ADHD partner restless rather than content. A bit of heat is not the same as a bad marriage. What matters is what happens afterwards.

Plenty of couples decide that any argument means something is broken, and then start managing each other into blandness, which nobody enjoys. The…

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 2:148

Give a dull task some fuel: music, a timer, a stake, a partner. Your brain runs on interest.

Do not expect a low-interest task to run on willpower alone. Add the spark it needs to catch.

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 53:39

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