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.

Narrowed down

2 practices

Tolerate distress Getting ready for something Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 1 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 2 Me 2 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now · Getting ready for something

Struggling right now 5 Coping, mostly 5 Getting ready for something 2

On your own, or with someone

Involves someone else 1 On my own 1

Theme · Tolerate distress

Medication and how it works 35 Food, caffeine and fuel 20 The moment before you snap 18 Choosing your response 18 Cool the body first 16 Reading, numbers and learning differences 13 Exercise, food and other supports 12 Practising under provocation 12 Your nervous system 11 Your sense of time 11 Facing it a step at a time 10 What anger actually is 9 Bringing the future closer 9 Systems for daily life 9 Moving your body 8 Grounding and settling 8 Making it stick 8 What ADHD actually is 7 Remembering to do it 6 The fear underneath anger 5 Breathing 5 Equanimity and perspective 4 Feelings and focus 4 When you use something to cope 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Being seen and judged 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Structure and routine 3 The cost of avoiding 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Shame and stigma 2 Get started 2 Tolerate distress 2 Screens and attention 1 Touch and bodywork 1 Self-compassion 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Growing empathy 1 Rest and pacing 1

Approach

DBT skills 1 Body based 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 2

Whoever is going to do the feeling picks what to work with. The tightness in the chest, the closing throat, the anger, the grief, whichever one they are ready for today.

Choosing keeps the person in charge of the dose, and being in charge is a fair part of what makes this different from whatever happened to them. If…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 2:286

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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