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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How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 3 Someone I care about 1

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 5 Struggling right now 3 Getting ready for something 3

Theme · Tolerate distress

Your nervous system 27 What anger actually is 20 Grounding and settling 16 Touch and bodywork 15 Screens and attention 14 Medication and how it works 12 The moment before you snap 12 When everything feels flat 12 Shame and stigma 12 Getting assessed and diagnosed 12 Get started 11 Equanimity and perspective 11 The fear underneath anger 9 Your sense of time 9 Feelings and focus 9 Cool the body first 8 Obsessions and compulsions 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Breaking the worry loop 7 Feeling from the inside 7 Breathing 7 Choosing your response 7 Systems for daily life 7 Emotions as signals 7 When you use something to cope 6 Shame 6 What worry does 6 Reading, numbers and learning differences 5 Treatment and medication 5 Growing empathy 5 The cost of avoiding 5 When you go numb 5 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 Remembering to do it 5 Question the thought 4 Moving your body 4 When anger turns to harm 4 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Practising under provocation 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Being seen and judged 3 Treatment and medication 3 Tolerate distress 3 Structure and routine 3 Self-compassion 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 Making it stick 2 Bringing the future closer 2 Rest and pacing 1 Living with uncertainty 1 What you are actually defending 1 Letting it out safely 1

When

Under stress 1 Any ordinary day 1 After a row 1

Sometimes the thing that stops your tears is an order somebody gave you decades ago, and you are the one carrying it out now. One woman found her father's words sitting behind a habit of wiping her face dry the moment she cried.

That is worth knowing because it changes who the rule belongs to. It was his voice, in her hands, running long after he had gone. Naming the source…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 16:127

Whether a feeling is nowhere to be found or far too much, the questions are the same: what breath, what movement, what sentence, what person helps me stay with this?

Numbness and overwhelm look like opposites and they are both a problem of not being able to stay with the material. The same supports work in either…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 94:6

Anger wants the body to do something, so let it. Breathe deeper and higher into the chest, stand up, press both palms hard into a wall, walk on the spot, push down through your feet.

Pressing against something solid gives the mobilisation an outlet with nothing broken and nobody hurt. Keep going until the charge drops a little,…

Five minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 84:6

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