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

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 4

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 2 Someone I care about 1 My husband or wife 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 111Your nervous system 73 What anger actually is 60 Getting assessed and diagnosed 59 Equanimity and perspective 44 Touch and bodywork 43 Systems for daily life 40 The moment before you snap 39 Exercise, food and other supports 39 Your sense of time 38 What ADHD actually is 37 Choosing your response 35 When everything feels flat 35 Get started 35 Grounding and settling 35 Treatment and medication 31 Screens and attention 31 Food, caffeine and fuel 30 The fear underneath anger 29 Feelings and focus 29 Practising under provocation 28 Bringing the future closer 27 Moving your body 24 What worry does 23 Cool the body first 23 Shame and stigma 20 Emotions as signals 19 Breathing 19 Feeling from the inside 17 What you are actually defending 16 The cost of avoiding 16 Structure and routine 16 Breaking the worry loop 15 Reading, numbers and learning differences 15 Remembering to do it 15 Being seen and judged 14 Growing empathy 14 Facing it a step at a time 13 Treatment and medication 12 When you use something to cope 12 Making it stick 12 Righteous anger and perfectionism 11 Obsessions and compulsions 11 Tolerate distress 11 Staying regulated in conflict 9 When anger turns to harm 9 Rebuilding trust 9 Knowing your partner 8 Self-compassion 7 Shame 7 When you go numb 6 Posture and how you carry yourself 6 Question the thought 5 Listening and understanding 5 Shared spiritual life 4 Living with uncertainty 3 Use your strengths 3 Rituals of connection 3 Work with your brain 2 Repair after rupture 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Panic and the body 2 Act on your values 2 Find meaning 2 Meaning after harm 2 Rest and pacing 2 Affection and touch 1 Notice the pattern and flex 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Working with anger 1 Let the wave come 1 Your worth is not conditional 1 Help someone grieving 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Calm the body 1 Ask and say no well 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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