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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Self-compassion Five minutes Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 3 Five minutes 4 Longer 1

Who it is written for

Someone I care about 4 Me 4 A practitioner 4

Theme · Self-compassion

Medication and how it works 99 Your nervous system 54 Getting assessed and diagnosed 43 Systems for daily life 36 Exercise, food and other supports 35 What anger actually is 35 Your sense of time 35 Get started 33 Food, caffeine and fuel 29 What ADHD actually is 28 Equanimity and perspective 27 The moment before you snap 26 Choosing your response 23 Screens and attention 23 When everything feels flat 23 Bringing the future closer 22 Treatment and medication 22 Touch and bodywork 22 Practising under provocation 22 What worry does 20 Grounding and settling 19 Moving your body 17 The fear underneath anger 17 Shame and stigma 15 Being seen and judged 14 Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Structure and routine 13 Cool the body first 13 Remembering to do it 11 What you are actually defending 10 Feelings and focus 10 Feeling from the inside 10 Growing empathy 10 Breathing 10 The cost of avoiding 9 Righteous anger and perfectionism 9 Making it stick 9 Treatment and medication 9 Breaking the worry loop 8 When you use something to cope 8 Obsessions and compulsions 8 Emotions as signals 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Knowing your partner 6 Shared spiritual life 4 Tolerate distress 4 Self-compassion 4 Rituals of connection 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Shame 3 When you go numb 3 Question the thought 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Find meaning 2 Listening and understanding 2 Meaning after harm 2 Panic and the body 2 Act on your values 2 Use your strengths 2 Work with your brain 2 Your worth is not conditional 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Rest and pacing 1 Rebuilding trust 1 Notice the pattern and flex 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Staying regulated in conflict 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Affection and touch 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 4 Under stress 2 In a change 1

It rarely stays a matter of attention. The difficulties shape what you come to believe about yourself, that colours how you are with the people closest to you, and their responses feed straight back into the original trouble.

Discouraging to read, and genuinely useful, because it means there are three places to work and they are not equally stuck. The wiring is the hardest…

Five minutesSelf-compassionADHD skillsQur’an 2:186

There is a difference between having ADHD and being ADHD. It sounds like word games until you notice which one you are living in.

Being it means the condition runs everything and explains everything, and there is a quiet relief in that which is hard to give up. Having it means…

Five minutesSelf-compassionADHD skillsQur’an 53:32

Work properly at the parts that can be managed, then be at peace with what is left over. The order matters more than it sounds.

Peace offered before any real effort is giving up with better vocabulary, and it never quite convinces the person saying it. Effort with no end point…

Five minutesSelf-compassionADHD skillsQur’an 22:78

Every list, timer and rule exists to buy you a life worth having. If the systems have quietly become the point, something has turned the wrong way round.

It is easy to end up managing your ADHD as a full time occupation and calling that recovery. A better test of a week is whether it held anything you…

Five minutesSelf-compassionADHD skillsQur’an 7:156

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