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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Food, caffeine and fuel Someone I care about Under stress Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 5 Me 5 Someone I care about 2

Theme · Food, caffeine and fuel

Grounding and settling 29 Cool the body first 26 Your nervous system 21 The fear underneath anger 17 What anger actually is 14 Feelings and focus 11 Equanimity and perspective 11 The moment before you snap 10 Systems for daily life 9 The cost of avoiding 9 Breathing 8 Moving your body 8 What worry does 7 When anger turns to harm 6 Screens and attention 6 Shame and stigma 6 Tolerate distress 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Facing it a step at a time 5 Medication and how it works 5 Choosing your response 5 When everything feels flat 4 Letting it out safely 4 Shame 4 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Bringing the future closer 3 What you are actually defending 3 Your sense of time 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Food, caffeine and fuel 2 Self-compassion 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Making it stick 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Structure and routine 2 Growing empathy 2 Treatment and medication 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 What ADHD actually is 1 When you use something to cope 1 Get started 1 Remembering to do it 1 Rest and pacing 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 22 Under stress 2 In a change 1

The pull towards bread, pasta and biscuits when you are low is not simply greed. Carbohydrate makes it easier for the brain to get hold of the raw material it needs for serotonin, so it gives a real if short lived lift.

Calling it self medication instead of a failure of character changes what you do next. You stop trying to out-discipline the craving and start asking…

A minuteFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 52:19

Irritable bowel symptoms turn up more often in people with ADHD, and they tend to track stress. If your stomach is at its worst in the weeks when everything else is at its worst, that is information rather than coincidence.

Two things help more often than they get suggested. Cutting caffeine frequently settles symptoms on its own, since it speeds the gut up and raises…

Twenty minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 106:4

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