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

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How long you have · Longer

A minute 9 Five minutes 39 Twenty minutes 10 Longer 3

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 3 Me 1

On your own, or with someone

Involves someone else 2 On my own 1

Theme · Exercise, food and other supports

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

Food colouring is the one narrow exception in this area. Large studies suggest it may mildly wind up some very young children, so a trial removal in a preschooler is a reasonable thing to do.

Keep it in proportion though. This is a minor irritant in a subset of little children, nowhere near the sweeping dietary cause that was claimed…

LongerExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:168

The restrictive elimination diet has real methodological problems, and it is expensive and exhausting to run. If a family still wants to try it, they can, because unproven and dangerous are different words.

There is usually more to lose by forbidding it. A family who feels blocked either does it anyway without telling you or spends another year…

LongerExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 22:78

Play therapy and insight based psychotherapy do not treat ADHD. There is no buried, unexpressed feeling driving it that talking will let out.

The difficulty sits in executive control and how it develops, not in hidden conflict. That said, a child with ADHD can also be anxious, grieving or…

LongerExercise, food and other supportsMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:153

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