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 practicesHow long you have · A minute
Who it is written for
Where you are right now · Coping, mostly
Theme · The cost of avoiding
The target is getting through the door, not feeling calm about it. Calm tends to arrive afterwards, and mostly for people who went.
It is tempting to wait for a good week, a settled mood, a morning that feels different. Waiting hands the decision to the anxiety, and the anxiety…
Put it the way a grandmother would. Eat your peas and carrots and then you can have your pudding: go in, and then the thing you have been wanting.
Technical language falls out of your head at seven in the morning. A homely sentence survives, and it survives the argument too, because it is hard…
Parents keeping a pattern going are almost never doing it knowingly. Say so out loud, before you explain any of the rest.
A parent who hears that their comfort has been part of the problem will either argue or quietly stop coming, and both of those cost the child far…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.