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 · Twenty minutes

A minute 8 Five minutes 32 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 1

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 10 Someone I care about 8 Me 5

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 3 Coping, mostly 1 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 4 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

Systems for daily life 38 Medication and how it works 26 Moving your body 24 Get started 17 Your nervous system 14 Feelings and focus 14 What ADHD actually is 13 Treatment and medication 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Your sense of time 10 What anger actually is 9 Screens and attention 9 Bringing the future closer 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 The moment before you snap 8 Shared spiritual life 7 Tolerate distress 6 Touch and bodywork 6 Grounding and settling 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Cool the body first 6 Breaking the worry loop 5 When you use something to cope 5 Emotions as signals 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Exercise, food and other supports 5 Breathing 5 Shame 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Repair after rupture 4 Choosing your response 4 Growing empathy 4 Rituals of connection 4 Remembering to do it 4 Being seen and judged 4 Rebuilding trust 3 Practising under provocation 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 When everything feels flat 3 Shame and stigma 3 Knowing your partner 3 Use your strengths 3 What worry does 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Structure and routine 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Letting it out safely 2 Answering bids 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Making it stick 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Question the thought 1 Keep the bond 1 What you are actually defending 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Treatment and medication 1 Listen to the body 1 Safety and grounding 1 Rest and pacing 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1

When

Any ordinary day 4 Under stress 1

Peripheral biofeedback, the sort that tracks skin conductance and heart rate rather than brainwaves, has more behind it than neurofeedback does. You practise letting the body drop into a calmer state while a monitor shows you it happening.

Once that state is familiar, pair it with a distinctive scent used only for this. After enough repetitions the smell starts pulling the state along…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28

If you are going to take supplements, it is worth paying a small subscription to a service that assays what is actually in them. ConsumerLab is one, at roughly sixty dollars a year.

The thing to check about any such service is who funds it, because a tester paid by manufacturers is a marketing department with a laboratory…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:247

Ask for photographs of every bottle rather than a list from memory, then pass that list to the prescriber. Recall is patchy about names and hopeless about doses.

Intake forms catch some of it and a photo of the shelf catches the rest, including the two things nobody mentions because they seem too minor to…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 6:141

When omega levels are low, everything about ADHD tends to get louder: attention, mood swings, holding things in mind. Low omega does not cause ADHD, but it can be sitting on top of it.

Think of it as one more layer to lift off rather than the thing underneath. Specialist labs can measure levels if it seems worth checking, and…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 23:21

One woman's ADHD symptoms climbed and her thinking slowed as each B12 injection wore off, then settled again after the next one. The deficiency came down one side of her family and the ADHD down the other.

The two lived in the same person without either causing the other. What made it findable was the timing, because difficulties that follow a cycle are…

Twenty minutesExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 23:21

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