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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4 practices

What worry does Struggling right now Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 3

Who it is written for

A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 4 Me 3

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 22 Struggling right now 4

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Involves someone else 1

Theme · What worry does

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

When · Any ordinary day

Under stress 6 Any ordinary day 4 When apart 1

Listen for the words I can't. When anxiety is doing the talking, that phrase turns up long before any evidence does. Let us try and see is the same situation with the door left open.

You do not have to argue yourself into confidence. Swap the verdict for a smaller sentence: I do not know yet. Then take one step that would actually…

A minuteWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 3:139

Anxiety left alone for long enough tends to tire into something flatter. The why bother feeling is not a separate problem arriving out of nowhere. It is often where a long stretch of worry ends up.

That is a reason to deal with avoidance early, while your world is still shrinking rather than already small. If you notice you have stopped trying…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 12:87

Some people are not being lazy when they stall. They are waiting to feel sure about how it turns out, and because that feeling never arrives, nothing moves.

From outside this looks like apathy, which is why it usually gets met with pressure and the pressure never works. What helps is much smaller. Agree…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 65:3

Listen to the tone, not only the content. Sorrow and flat negativity about someone's online world can be the clearest reading of their mood you will get.

If most of a person's social life happens online, how they talk about it is a fair guide to how they are. Weariness, bleakness, no pleasure left in…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 94:6

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