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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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How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 3Five minutes 4Twenty minutes 2Longer 1
Who it is written for
Someone I care about 2A practitioner 2Me 1
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 1Struggling right now 1
Theme · The cost of avoiding
Systems for daily life 4Feelings and focus 3Moving your body 3Screens and attention 3Shame 3Your nervous system 2The cost of avoiding 2Choosing your response 2Staying regulated in conflict 2Cool the body first 2Food, caffeine and fuel 2Emotions as signals 2Letting it out safely 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2Anger, alcohol and the body 1What worry does 1Treatment and medication 1Tolerate distress 1Shame and stigma 1Remembering to do it 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Medication and how it works 1Making it stick 1Get started 1Facing it a step at a time 1Equanimity and perspective 1Being seen and judged 1Answering bids 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 8After a row 2Under stress 2In a change 2Coming and going 1

When someone with attention difficulties loses the structure around them, the difficulty shows in full. Nothing has got worse in them; the scaffolding that carried part of it has gone.

Bells, a timetable, a teacher at the front, other people visibly working: all of that was taking some of the load. At home the load falls on whoever…

Twenty minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 2:45

When the fear is about being seen, being asked, being judged, you can build the steps out of real moments: the doorway, the corridor, the dining hall, answering once in a lesson.

Fear of a whole building cannot be practised. Fear of walking into the dining hall at half past twelve can. Make each step small enough to be boring…

Twenty minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 90:11

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