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.

Narrowed down

3 practices

Use your strengths Five minutes Coping, mostly Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 3

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 2 My husband or wife 1 Someone I care about 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Use your strengths

Medication and how it works 63 Getting assessed and diagnosed 41 Your nervous system 37 What anger actually is 36 Systems for daily life 31 Equanimity and perspective 29 Exercise, food and other supports 27 Your sense of time 25 Get started 23 Touch and bodywork 23 What ADHD actually is 22 Bringing the future closer 21 Treatment and medication 20 When everything feels flat 19 The moment before you snap 19 The fear underneath anger 18 Feelings and focus 17 Choosing your response 17 What worry does 17 Moving your body 17 Practising under provocation 17 Screens and attention 16 Grounding and settling 14 What you are actually defending 14 Food, caffeine and fuel 13 Emotions as signals 12 Structure and routine 12 Righteous anger and perfectionism 11 Breathing 10 Feeling from the inside 9 The cost of avoiding 9 Being seen and judged 9 Staying regulated in conflict 9 Growing empathy 9 Rebuilding trust 9 Knowing your partner 8 Treatment and medication 8 Making it stick 7 Breaking the worry loop 7 Remembering to do it 6 Cool the body first 6 Shame and stigma 6 Listening and understanding 5 Self-compassion 5 When you use something to cope 5 When anger turns to harm 5 Tolerate distress 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 4 Facing it a step at a time 4 Shared spiritual life 4 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Rituals of connection 3 Use your strengths 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Panic and the body 2 Repair after rupture 2 Meaning after harm 2 Work with your brain 2 Find meaning 2 Act on your values 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Your worth is not conditional 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Notice the pattern and flex 1 Help someone grieving 1 Get it out of your head 1 Affection and touch 1 Rest and pacing 1 When you go numb 1 Face it gently 1 Shame 1 Question the thought 1 Calm the body 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Working with anger 1 Ask and say no well 1 Let the wave come 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 After a row 1

A calm, undemanding life is supposed to be the goal, and for a lot of people with ADHD it is quietly unbearable. Comfort does not hold you. Something with a bit of pull to it does.

This is worth knowing when you are building a plan around less: fewer commitments, lighter workload, nothing too taxing. Take out all the demand and…

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 17:84

A relationship with no friction in it can leave an ADHD partner restless rather than content. A bit of heat is not the same as a bad marriage. What matters is what happens afterwards.

Plenty of couples decide that any argument means something is broken, and then start managing each other into blandness, which nobody enjoys. The…

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 2:148

Give a dull task some fuel: music, a timer, a stake, a partner. Your brain runs on interest.

Do not expect a low-interest task to run on willpower alone. Add the spark it needs to catch.

Five minutesUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 53:39

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