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

Getting assessed and diagnosed Struggling right now Under stress Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 2

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 4 Struggling right now 3

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Grounding and settling 28 Cool the body first 19 The moment before you snap 18 Touch and bodywork 15 Your nervous system 13 What anger actually is 12 Choosing your response 11 Breathing 9 Systems for daily life 9 Screens and attention 8 The cost of avoiding 8 Moving your body 8 Feelings and focus 8 Medication and how it works 7 Shame 7 Feeling from the inside 7 What worry does 6 Equanimity and perspective 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Tolerate distress 5 Treatment and medication 5 Shame and stigma 5 Bringing the future closer 5 The fear underneath anger 4 Letting it out safely 4 When everything feels flat 4 Posture and how you carry yourself 4 Get started 4 Food, caffeine and fuel 4 When anger turns to harm 3 Being seen and judged 3 Emotions as signals 3 Growing empathy 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Question the thought 3 Structure and routine 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Making it stick 2 Your sense of time 2 Self-compassion 2 Practising under provocation 2 Facing it a step at a time 1 When you use something to cope 1 What you are actually defending 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 What ADHD actually is 1 Righteous anger and perfectionism 1 Rest and pacing 1 Remembering to do it 1 Panic and the body 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 8 Coming and going 5 Under stress 3 In a change 1 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

Ask for the most frightening moment of their life, then the next one down, then the next, until there is a scale running from one to a hundred. You get the ladder you needed, and they get something they did not expect: fear comes in sizes.

Do it slowly and write it in their words rather than yours. Most people arrive believing anxiety is one solid block that either has hold of them or…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:83

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