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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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4 practices
Someone I care about remove filterStruggling right now remove filterWhen apart remove filterClear all
Area
Your body 2Focus, starting, and ADHD 1Worry and anxiety 1
How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 1Twenty minutes 2
Who it is written for · Someone I care about
A practitioner 8Me 8My husband or wife 4Someone I care about 4
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Coping, mostly 5Struggling right now 4
On your own, or with someone
On my own 2Involves someone else 2
Theme
What worry does 1Feelings and focus 1Grounding and settling 1Your nervous system 1
Approach
Body based 2ADHD skills 1CBT 1
When · When apart
Under stress 186Any ordinary day 180After a row 53In a change 25When apart 4Coming and going 3

After years of feeling slightly outside every room, pulling back stops being a decision and becomes the setting you live at. Worth knowing about yourself before you conclude that you are simply not a people person.

If you are supporting or treating someone with ADHD, assume the connection has to be built rather than already there, and do not read the flatness…

Five minutesFeelings and focusADHD skillsQur’an 16:127

On a video call, two things still work well: touching your own face gently, and rocking. Both are yours to do, and both are visible enough to be done together.

Distance takes away most of what one person can offer another physically, so it helps to know what survives it. A hand resting on your cheek, fingers…

A minuteGrounding and settlingBody basedQur’an 2:186

Pulling away from people sits upstream of a good deal: low mood, social fear, and the slow shrinking of where someone is willing to go. Whatever the eventual label, getting a person back into contact is rarely wasted work.

You do not need the diagnosis settled before you start. One regular arrangement with one person, at a fixed time, somewhere easy to reach, does work…

Twenty minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 2:186

You do not need other people to reach a settled state. Breath, a slow walk somewhere green, a cat asleep on your lap: all of them get you there.

The name social engagement system makes it sound as though company is the only door, which is bleak if you are isolated, and worse if people are the…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:22

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.