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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8 practices

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How long you have · A minute

A minute 8 Five minutes 31 Twenty minutes 19 Longer 13

Who it is written for

A practitioner 8 Me 6 Someone I care about 6 My husband or wife 1

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 4 Struggling right now 2 Getting ready for something 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 5 Involves someone else 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Treatment and medication

Staying regulated in conflict 46 The moment before you snap 39 Choosing your response 36 Cool the body first 34 Grounding and settling 28 What anger actually is 26 Your nervous system 25 Medication and how it works 25 Systems for daily life 24 Answering bids 22 The fear underneath anger 22 Bringing the future closer 22 Get started 20 Treatment and medication 18 Equanimity and perspective 17 Your sense of time 17 Structure and routine 16 Fondness and admiration 15 Practising under provocation 14 Growing empathy 14 Affection and touch 14 Making it stick 14 Knowing your partner 14 Repair after rupture 13 Touch and bodywork 13 Feelings and focus 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 The cost of avoiding 9 Breathing 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 Moving your body 9 When everything feels flat 9 Gratitude 9 Listening and understanding 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Tolerate distress 8 Treatment and medication 8 Being seen and judged 8 Screens and attention 7 Remembering to do it 7 Rituals of connection 6 What worry does 6 What you are actually defending 6 Shame and stigma 6 Shared spiritual life 6 Emotions as signals 5 Rebuilding trust 5 Shame 5 Feeling from the inside 5 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 Self-compassion 4 Question the thought 4 Safety and grounding 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Name what you feel 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 When you use something to cope 3 Working with anger 2 Hold a boundary 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Meaning after harm 2 Calm the body 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Patience and trust 2 Panic and the body 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Let the wave come 2 Validate yourself and others 2 Ride the urge 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Keep the bond 1 Help someone grieving 1 Get it out of your head 1 Act on your values 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Rest and pacing 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 When you go numb 1 Ask and say no well 1 Listen to the body 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 5 CBT 1 ADHD skills 1 Core 1

When

Any ordinary day 5 Coming and going 1 After a row 1 Under stress 1

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

A lot of what people now know about ADHD came from a video. Some of it is genuinely good, some of it is not, and asking someone what they have been watching is a fair question to open with.

Creators who live with ADHD have done real good here. They have made people feel recognised and made asking for help less frightening, and some…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:7

ADHD is managed rather than cured, across a whole life. Anything advertising a cure is telling you it is not working from the evidence.

Managed sounds like a disappointment until you look at what it means in practice: treatment that fits your life now, adjusted when the life changes,…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Listen for the sentence that says the child could manage all of this perfectly well if they only decided to. However kindly it is meant, that is the belief to take apart.

It sounds like encouragement and it works like a verdict, because it says the ability was always there and only the willingness was missing. In a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 49:6

Most children with ADHD can tell you exactly what they should have done. The knowing was never the missing piece, which is why a course teaching the knowing changes so little.

Watch closely and you see the skill appear in quiet moments and vanish in loud ones, when another child has already grabbed the ball and there is…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCoreQur’an 9:105

If mindfulness is going to help with ADHD, the version with a chance is small and spread out. A few seconds of noticing, several times a day, rather than one long sitting you come to dread.

A forty five minute block asks you to get settled in one place and then somehow carry that into the afternoon, and the carrying is exactly what tends…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 22:78

By response rate, extended release stimulants are among the most effective medicines in psychiatry, and most people tolerate them well. That is worth hearing plainly, particularly from people who are not generally keen on medication.

What the long acting form buys you is coverage. A dose that has faded by four in the afternoon leaves the evening bare, and the evening is where home…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

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