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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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5 practices

Moving your body Struggling right now Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 5 Someone I care about 5 Me 5

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 43 Getting ready for something 8 Struggling right now 5

On your own, or with someone

On my own 4 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Moving your body

Your nervous system 29 Get started 20 Screens and attention 17 Medication and how it works 16 What ADHD actually is 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Shame and stigma 10 Your sense of time 10 Treatment and medication 9 When everything feels flat 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 Obsessions and compulsions 8 Reading, numbers and learning differences 8 Touch and bodywork 7 Equanimity and perspective 7 The fear underneath anger 6 Shame 6 When you use something to cope 6 The moment before you snap 6 Moving your body 5 Structure and routine 5 Tolerate distress 5 Grounding and settling 5 Feelings and focus 5 Being seen and judged 5 What worry does 4 Growing empathy 3 Emotions as signals 3 Choosing your response 3 Treatment and medication 3 Cool the body first 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Question the thought 3 Practising under provocation 3 Living with uncertainty 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 When you go numb 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Use your strengths 1 Remembering to do it 1 Breathing 1 What you are actually defending 1 Bringing the future closer 1 Making it stick 1 Self-compassion 1 Facing it a step at a time 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 3 Body based 2

When · Any ordinary day

Under stress 8 Any ordinary day 5

Missing a day is not the end of the programme. You missed a day. Tomorrow you carry on.

The dangerous part is not the missed session, it is the story that follows it, the one where you have blown it so you may as well stop altogether.…

A minuteMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 30:54

Movement gives you back some willingness, not just some focus. The problem is often not that you cannot concentrate but that you cannot make yourself care enough to start.

Those are two different difficulties and the second one is usually the more disabling in adult life. After moving, the same task tends to feel…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:105

Moving your body is not a pleasant extra alongside the proper treatment for low mood. It has been tested as a treatment in its own right and it holds up.

This matters most when you are already doing other things and still struggling. Walking, cycling, swimming, anything that lifts your heart rate for a…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 9:105

You do not have to walk into a room full of strangers for this to work. The moving and the attention are the active parts, and both travel happily to your living room.

Group classes suit some people and cost others far more than they give. A video at home, a quiet corner, the same fifteen minutes, all of it counts.…

Twenty minutesMoving your bodyBody basedQur’an 53:40

For a child having a hard time, one adult who plainly thinks well of them makes more difference than almost anything else. A coach or a teacher can be that person.

Studies of children growing up through poverty, hunger and worse keep landing on the same finding: those who did well usually had somebody who…

LongerMoving your bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 28:26

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