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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Medication and how it works Five minutes Under stress Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 4 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 2

Who it is written for

Me 4 A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Medication and how it works

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 The fear underneath anger 5 Tolerate distress 5 Choosing your response 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 What anger actually is 4 Equanimity and perspective 4 The cost of avoiding 4 Moving your body 4 Medication and how it works 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Listening and understanding 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 What worry does 3 Question the thought 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 Obsessions and compulsions 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 When everything feels flat 2 Treatment and medication 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

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 99 Coming and going 5 Under stress 4 In a change 3

The stimulant shortage is not your pharmacy being disorganised. Regulators set a fixed annual quota of the raw material, and the ceiling has been too low to cover the prescriptions being written.

Knowing that changes what you do with your energy. Ringing round twenty chemists is exhausting and it creates no supply, so spend the effort on…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:91

When a prescription cannot be filled, you can report it to the medicines regulator's shortage inbox, naming the medication and the pharmacy. Nobody writes back, and people often find their prescription turns up soon afterwards.

The value of this is partly practical and partly in not being stuck. Being told no at a counter, month after month, is what makes people quietly…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 65:3

Waking your child at six to give the tablet so it has taken hold by breakfast, then letting them fall back to sleep, is not a strange thing you invented because you are failing. It is a reasonable answer to a real gap in how the medicine works.

Families quietly carry a lot of these. The early alarm, the switch to a faster product, the parent who does the whole morning alone because it goes…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:91

A medicine can give you back some energy. It cannot turn a bad situation into a good one, and it helps to be clear which of the two you are hoping for.

If home has been miserable for two years, feeling steadier may just mean you notice the misery more sharply. People often read that as the medicine…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:83

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