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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Getting assessed and diagnosed Five minutes Under stress Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 2

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 2 Coping, mostly 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Touch and bodywork 17 Grounding and settling 15 Your nervous system 13 The moment before you snap 10 Cool the body first 8 Feelings and focus 8 Breathing 8 Feeling from the inside 7 When anger turns to harm 6 Staying regulated in conflict 6 Tolerate distress 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Choosing your response 5 Medication and how it works 4 What anger actually is 4 Equanimity and perspective 4 The cost of avoiding 4 Moving your body 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 What worry does 3 Question the thought 3 Listening and understanding 3 Systems for daily life 2 Exercise, food and other supports 2 Practising under provocation 2 Screens and attention 2 Self-compassion 2 Shame 2 Shame and stigma 2 Structure and routine 2 Treatment and medication 2 When everything feels flat 2 Knowing your partner 2 Get started 2 Growing empathy 2 When you use something to cope 2 Working with anger 1 Letting it out safely 1 What you are actually defending 1 Rest and pacing 1 Emotions as signals 1 Food, caffeine and fuel 1 Your sense of time 1 Rebuild trust 1 Righteous anger and perfectionism 1 Making it stick 1 Let the wave come 1 Calm the body 1

Approach

ADHD skills 2 Core 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 43 Coming and going 8 In a change 4 Under stress 3 After a row 1

Very sweet, very salty, very fatty food acts on the reward system in a way that has more in common with a drug than with dinner. Reaching for it when you are flat is self-medication, not greed.

Knowing that changes what you do about it. Counting calories and resolving to try harder both aim at willpower, which was never the mechanism in the…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 39:53

With gambling machines the pull may be the lights and the noise as much as the chance of winning. That changes what you actually need to stay away from.

If the sensory buzz is doing the work, the triggers are not only the betting shop. They are the phone games built with the same flashing and chiming,…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 16:43

Expect more anxiety, low mood, drinking and drug use in the young people coming through now. And expect the boys to say less about it, so go looking for irritability, trouble and substances instead of waiting to be told.

Ask parents what they are seeing rather than only what they have been told, and ask the young person directly and privately. Screening that rests on…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 21:83

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