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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2 practices

Low mood and hard feelings Struggling right now When apart Clear all

Area · Low mood and hard feelings

Focus, starting, and ADHD 2 Your body 2 Low mood and hard feelings 2 Worry and anxiety 1 Anger 1

Who it is written for

Me 2 My husband or wife 2 A practitioner 2

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 2

On your own, or with someone

Involves someone else 1 Both of us together 1

Theme

When you go numb 1 Emotions as signals 1

When · When apart

Any ordinary day 34 Under stress 27 After a row 11 In a change 5 When apart 2 Coming and going 2

Going numb is a good way to survive something and a poor way to live near someone. It shuts the line in both directions at once.

When you cannot feel your own signal you also stop picking up theirs, so the room goes quiet even when they are reaching for you. The loneliness that…

Five minutesEmotions as signalsEmotionally focusedQur’an 6:125

Pulling back makes you harder to reach, which makes people give up on reaching, which looks like proof that nobody was coming. The loop closes itself.

Being told to open up rarely breaks it, because opening up in one go is exactly the risk the whole strategy exists to prevent. What breaks it is…

Five minutesWhen you go numbEmotionally focusedQur’an 39:23

There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.