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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3 practices

What worry does Five minutes Under stress Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 3 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 3

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Involves someone else 1

Theme · What worry does

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

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 20 Under stress 3

You do not have to win the argument in your head before your body is allowed to settle. The two run on separate tracks and you can work on either.

Plenty of people stay locked in the thinking, sure that once the question is finally answered the shaking will stop. It rarely happens in that order.…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 2:156

There is a difference between being disappointed with how things are and having given up on how things will be. The second needs a different level of care.

Disappointment still has a future attached to it: this is bad, and later might not be. Hopelessness has closed that off. If you hear someone move…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 39:53

For some people the racing heart arrives before any thought at all, and the frightening explanation follows the sensation. If that is you, there is no thought to catch, so start with the body.

Build the physical steadying first, at a quiet time when nothing is happening, so that something is ready to reach for when it does. Slow breathing…

Five minutesWhat worry doesCBTQur’an 12:86

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