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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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48 practices
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 25Your body 7Low mood and hard feelings 6Worry and anxiety 4Anger 2Yourself and your limits 1After harm 1Grief and loss 1Your marriage 1
How long you have · Five minutes
A minute 24Five minutes 48Twenty minutes 16Longer 2
Who it is written for
A practitioner 42Me 36Someone I care about 25My husband or wife 2
Where you are right now
Getting ready for something 34Coping, mostly 9Struggling right now 5
On your own, or with someone
On my own 20Involves someone else 18Both of us together 10
Theme
Getting assessed and diagnosed 8Medication and how it works 5When everything feels flat 5Treatment and medication 5Touch and bodywork 4Feelings and focus 3Exercise, food and other supports 2Facing it a step at a time 2Grounding and settling 1Breaking the worry loop 1What you are actually defending 1Screens and attention 1Rebuild trust 1Practising under provocation 1Moving your body 1Help someone grieving 1Your nervous system 1When you use something to cope 1Ask and say no well 1Staying regulated in conflict 1Bringing the future closer 1The cost of avoiding 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 23ADHD skills 9CBT 8Core 3Body based 2DBT skills 1Trauma informed 1Grief 1
When · Coming and going
Any ordinary day 973Under stress 199After a row 114Coming and going 48In a change 46When apart 7Something good 1

Three things are worth noticing before you buy any treatment: whether the only research on it is their own, whether they will say plainly what it is meant to change, and whether you have to sign something.

Each one covers a different way of being caught out. Research a company funded and ran itself has never been checked by anyone with nothing to lose.…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 4:29

Decide at the start what you are actually aiming at. Eight difficulties down to six, then to four, then perhaps to two. Never zero, because zero was never on offer.

Everybody has some of these traits, and ADHD is largely inherited, so a life with none of it was never a realistic target for anyone. Naming a number…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

Part of why so many adults are coming forward now is that well known people have said out loud that they have this. Seeing someone capable say it makes the asking cost less.

The old picture of ADHD was a careless child and a lazy adult, and that picture kept a great many people from ever mentioning it. An athlete at the…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 24:61

Everything has side effects, including doing nothing. The only real question is whether what you gain outweighs what it costs you.

The conversation about medication often gets set up as a risky drug against a safe natural alternative, and that is not the choice anyone is actually…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

Treatment is not only about school reports. Lower rates of accidental injury and of other serious harms are reasons in their own right, even for a child whose marks are perfectly fine.

This is the answer to the question about the bright child who is coping academically and whose impulsivity worries you in traffic, on a bike, or…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:195

Some situations genuinely run on how you are seen. A job interview, a court hearing, a first meeting with in-laws: the image matters there, and it is honest to say so.

The claim is only that most of life is not one of those, and that the fear of disrespect is far larger than its actual cost. Keeping the exceptions…

Five minutesWhat you are actually defendingCoreQur’an 4:135

Before you go towards the thing you are afraid of, it helps to have two things to hand: a way to settle your body, and a fairer account of what is likely to happen.

Neither of them is meant to take the fear away. They are there so you can stay in the situation long enough for it to teach you something, and that…

Five minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 2:153

A child at the nursery door who charms you, then rages, then crumples is running through the whole repertoire in ninety seconds. Nothing has gone wrong yet.

The sequence is ordinary: try connection first, then protest, then collapse when neither works. What decides how the morning lands is what happens…

Five minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 20:46

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