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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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6 practices
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How long you have · A minute
A minute 6Five minutes 18Twenty minutes 12Longer 6
Who it is written for · Me
A practitioner 8Me 6Someone I care about 6My husband or wife 1
Where you are right now
Getting ready for something 2Struggling right now 2Coping, mostly 2
On your own, or with someone
On my own 5Involves someone else 1
Theme · Treatment and medication
Staying regulated in conflict 46The moment before you snap 39Choosing your response 36Cool the body first 33What anger actually is 25Your nervous system 24Grounding and settling 24Medication and how it works 23Answering bids 22Systems for daily life 22Bringing the future closer 22The fear underneath anger 21Get started 20Equanimity and perspective 17Fondness and admiration 15Your sense of time 15Knowing your partner 14Treatment and medication 14Practising under provocation 14Affection and touch 14Repair after rupture 13Growing empathy 13Making it stick 13Structure and routine 12Feelings and focus 12Touch and bodywork 12Food, caffeine and fuel 11Breathing 9Gratitude 9Exercise, food and other supports 8Listening and understanding 8Being seen and judged 8When everything feels flat 8Getting assessed and diagnosed 7Remembering to do it 7What ADHD actually is 7Moving your body 7Tolerate distress 7What you are actually defending 6What worry does 6Rituals of connection 6Treatment and medication 6Shared spiritual life 6Shame and stigma 5Posture and how you carry yourself 5Rebuilding trust 5Screens and attention 5Self-compassion 4Question the thought 4Feeling from the inside 4Safety and grounding 3Name what you feel 3Emotions as signals 3Righteous anger and perfectionism 2Hold a boundary 2Ride the urge 2Working with anger 2Breaking the worry loop 2Your worth is not conditional 2Shame 2Let the wave come 2Validate yourself and others 2Patience and trust 2Obsessions and compulsions 2Facing it a step at a time 2Notice the pattern and flex 2When you use something to cope 2Calm the body 2Meaning after harm 2The cost of avoiding 2Face it gently 1Letting it out safely 1When you go numb 1Your window of tolerance 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Keep the bond 1Help someone grieving 1Care for yourself in loss 1Panic and the body 1Get it out of your head 1Act on your values 1Ask and say no well 1Listen to the body 1Rest and pacing 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 4ADHD skills 1CBT 1
When
Any ordinary day 3After a row 1Under stress 1Coming and going 1

If someone selling you a treatment for ADHD uses the word cure, that is your cue to leave. There is no cure. What good treatment offers is fewer symptoms, and that is a real and worthwhile thing.

A registered clinician is not allowed to promise you an outcome, because nobody can honestly guarantee one. So a provider who promises makes you a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

Somebody will eventually ask you whether you want what is best for your child. It is a sales line, and knowing that in advance is most of what you need to withstand it.

Parents of a newly diagnosed child are frightened, motivated and often exhausted, which is exactly the state that gets marketed to. The question is…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 49:6

ADHD is managed rather than cured, across a whole life. Anything advertising a cure is telling you it is not working from the evidence.

Managed sounds like a disappointment until you look at what it means in practice: treatment that fits your life now, adjusted when the life changes,…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Listen for the sentence that says the child could manage all of this perfectly well if they only decided to. However kindly it is meant, that is the belief to take apart.

It sounds like encouragement and it works like a verdict, because it says the ability was always there and only the willingness was missing. In a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 49:6

If mindfulness is going to help with ADHD, the version with a chance is small and spread out. A few seconds of noticing, several times a day, rather than one long sitting you come to dread.

A forty five minute block asks you to get settled in one place and then somehow carry that into the afternoon, and the carrying is exactly what tends…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 22:78

By response rate, extended release stimulants are among the most effective medicines in psychiatry, and most people tolerate them well. That is worth hearing plainly, particularly from people who are not generally keen on medication.

What the long acting form buys you is coverage. A dose that has faded by four in the afternoon leaves the evening bare, and the evening is where home…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

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