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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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67 practices
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Area
Anger 27Focus, starting, and ADHD 24Your body 14Worry and anxiety 2
How long you have · A minute
A minute 67Five minutes 201Twenty minutes 83Longer 40
Who it is written for
A practitioner 65Me 62Someone I care about 37My husband or wife 1
Where you are right now · Getting ready for something
Coping, mostly 553Struggling right now 191Getting ready for something 67
On your own, or with someone
On my own 44Involves someone else 22Both of us together 1
Theme
The moment before you snap 7Systems for daily life 5Medication and how it works 5Practising under provocation 5Food, caffeine and fuel 5Cool the body first 5Making it stick 4Exercise, food and other supports 3Bringing the future closer 2What ADHD actually is 2Treatment and medication 2Treatment and medication 2Structure and routine 2Breathing 2Posture and how you carry yourself 2Grounding and settling 2Feelings and focus 2Feeling from the inside 2Choosing your response 2What anger actually is 2Moving your body 1Your sense of time 1Growing empathy 1Equanimity and perspective 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 18Mindfulness 12ADHD skills 12Body based 12CBT 7Core 6
When
Any ordinary day 55In a change 6Coming and going 4Under stress 2

Describe what the first fortnight might feel like before the first tablet, not after the first worried phone call. A warning given in advance turns a bad week into a milestone.

The wording can be plain. Some people feel more wound up for the first week or ten days, it usually passes, and nobody changes anything without…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:87

If someone selling you a treatment for ADHD uses the word cure, that is your cue to leave. There is no cure. What good treatment offers is fewer symptoms, and that is a real and worthwhile thing.

A registered clinician is not allowed to promise you an outcome, because nobody can honestly guarantee one. So a provider who promises makes you a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

Somebody will eventually ask you whether you want what is best for your child. It is a sales line, and knowing that in advance is most of what you need to withstand it.

Parents of a newly diagnosed child are frightened, motivated and often exhausted, which is exactly the state that gets marketed to. The question is…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 49:6

ADHD does not look the same in two people. If someone tells you that you cannot have it because you are calm, or organised at work, or did well at school, they are describing one version of it.

Two people with the same diagnosis can look nothing alike: one talkative and always moving, the other quiet and away inside their own head. Other…

A minuteWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 30:22

Roughly one person in twenty has ADHD, and the figure holds up across very different countries. You are not part of a modern trend.

That number matters in two directions. It means you are not rare, so in a class of thirty or an office of forty there will be others. It also means…

A minuteWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 49:13

If anger management sounds like something being done to you, call it impulse control instead. The work is the same and the word is easier to live with.

Plenty of people who will not sit through feelings talk will happily work on catching an impulse, because that sounds like training rather than…

A minuteWhat anger actually isCoreQur’an 3:134

A certain wariness is standard equipment. Nothing in this work is trying to leave you soft and open to whatever comes along.

People often hesitate here because it sounds like being asked to stop protecting themselves. The opposite is nearer the truth: you keep the guard and…

A minuteWhat anger actually isCoreQur’an 4:148

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