Practices

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Tolerate distress Longer Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have · Longer

A minute 2 Five minutes 4 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 1 Someone I care about 1 Me 1

Theme · Tolerate distress

Moving your body 11 Treatment and medication 10 Feelings and focus 8 Your nervous system 7 Food, caffeine and fuel 7 Medication and how it works 7 Systems for daily life 6 What anger actually is 6 Choosing your response 6 The fear underneath anger 4 Making it stick 4 When you use something to cope 3 Growing empathy 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Use your strengths 3 The moment before you snap 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Shame and stigma 2 Screens and attention 2 Grounding and settling 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Cool the body first 2 Breathing 2 Being seen and judged 2 Breaking the worry loop 1 Shame 1 Self-compassion 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Rest and pacing 1 Question the thought 1 Practising under provocation 1 Touch and bodywork 1 Structure and routine 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 What ADHD actually is 1 Tolerate distress 1 What worry does 1 What you are actually defending 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 1 Under stress 1

Before you go anywhere near the hard memory, you need to be able to stay in your own body while something difficult is happening in it. That capacity is part of the work, not a delay before it starts.

Phase based approaches put this first for a plain reason: people who cannot bear the arousal either drop out or push through and come away worse. If…

LongerTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 3:200

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