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

A minute 8 Five minutes 32 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 1

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 61 Someone I care about 58 Me 46

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 28 Getting ready for something 12 Struggling right now 6

On your own, or with someone

On my own 41 Involves someone else 5

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

Medication and how it works 155Your nervous system 113Systems for daily life 103What anger actually is 89 The moment before you snap 88 Choosing your response 81 Get started 73 Grounding and settling 67 Equanimity and perspective 66 Moving your body 63 Cool the body first 61 Staying regulated in conflict 60 Food, caffeine and fuel 59 Feelings and focus 58 The fear underneath anger 58 Bringing the future closer 58 Your sense of time 58 Touch and bodywork 56 Getting assessed and diagnosed 50 What ADHD actually is 48 Practising under provocation 46 Exercise, food and other supports 46 When everything feels flat 44 Treatment and medication 42 Screens and attention 40 Breathing 34 Growing empathy 34 Making it stick 30 Shame and stigma 30 Being seen and judged 30 Structure and routine 28 Remembering to do it 26 Tolerate distress 26 What worry does 25 Knowing your partner 25 Treatment and medication 25 Answering bids 24 What you are actually defending 23 Breaking the worry loop 23 Feeling from the inside 23 When you use something to cope 22 Emotions as signals 22 Repair after rupture 19 Facing it a step at a time 18 Rebuilding trust 17 Shared spiritual life 17 Affection and touch 15 Fondness and admiration 15 Obsessions and compulsions 14 Rituals of connection 13 Posture and how you carry yourself 13 Shame 13 Listening and understanding 13 Righteous anger and perfectionism 13 Self-compassion 12 Question the thought 11 Use your strengths 10 Gratitude 9 Anger, alcohol and the body 8 The cost of avoiding 7 When you go numb 5 When anger turns to harm 5 Living with uncertainty 5 Rest and pacing 5 Meaning after harm 4 Safety and grounding 4 Letting it out safely 4 Panic and the body 3 Let the wave come 3 Name what you feel 3 Notice the pattern and flex 3 Working with anger 3 Your worth is not conditional 3 Act on your values 3 Calm the body 3 Face it gently 2 Your window of tolerance 2 Find meaning 2 Validate yourself and others 2 Ride the urge 2 Care for yourself in loss 2 Hold a boundary 2 Patience and trust 2 Help someone grieving 2 Get it out of your head 2 Ask and say no well 2 Listen to the body 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Keep the bond 2 Work with your brain 2

When

Any ordinary day 41 Under stress 3 Coming and going 2

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

Play therapy and insight based psychotherapy do not treat ADHD. There is no buried, unexpressed feeling driving it that talking will let out.

The difficulty sits in executive control and how it develops, not in hidden conflict. That said, a child with ADHD can also be anxious, grieving or…

LongerExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:153

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