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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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265 practices

Twenty minutes Coping, mostly Clear all

Area

Focus, starting, and ADHD 115Your body 49 Anger 38 Your marriage 28 Worry and anxiety 21 Low mood and hard feelings 10 Grief and loss 2 After harm 2

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 553Five minutes 822Twenty minutes 265Longer 85

Who it is written for

A practitioner 226Me 218Someone I care about 158My husband or wife 45

Where you are right now · Coping, mostly

Coping, mostly 265Struggling right now 118Getting ready for something 83

On your own, or with someone

On my own 134Involves someone else 81 Both of us together 50

Theme

Systems for daily life 21 Medication and how it works 19 Moving your body 17 Getting assessed and diagnosed 11 The cost of avoiding 11 Get started 11 Screens and attention 10 Touch and bodywork 8 Your nervous system 8 Feelings and focus 7 Shared spiritual life 7 Treatment and medication 7 What anger actually is 6 Exercise, food and other supports 5 The moment before you snap 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 What ADHD actually is 5 Bringing the future closer 5 When anger turns to harm 4 The fear underneath anger 4 When everything feels flat 4 Growing empathy 4 Rituals of connection 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 Repair after rupture 4 Grounding and settling 4 Your sense of time 3 Knowing your partner 3 Making it stick 3 Structure and routine 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Breathing 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Emotions as signals 3 Shame and stigma 2 Use your strengths 2 What worry does 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Equanimity and perspective 2 When you use something to cope 2 Cool the body first 2 Answering bids 2 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 Practising under provocation 1 Tolerate distress 1 Treatment and medication 1 Remembering to do it 1 Choosing your response 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Keep the bond 1 Listen to the body 1 Rest and pacing 1 Facing it a step at a time 1 Safety and grounding 1

Approach

ADHD skills 73 Medical and treatment 61 Core 34 CBT 29 Body based 22 Gottman 21 Mindfulness 8 Emotionally focused 8 Trauma informed 3 Parts work 2 Grief 2 DBT skills 2

When

Any ordinary day 225After a row 19 Under stress 9 In a change 6 Something good 2 Coming and going 2 When apart 2

None of this makes thinking useless. Making sense of what happened, and changing what you concluded about yourself, does work that no breathing exercise touches.

The body work settles the alarm. The thinking work deals with the verdict you passed on yourself afterwards: that you are weak, that it was your…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 3:191

Deep rest needs a dose like anything else. If a long daily relaxation is leaving you flatter each week rather than steadier, make it shorter.

Someone can start a forty day programme of long guided rest with the best intentions and find that by the second week they are sinking instead of…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 25:47

If you are the person who steadies every room, ask yourself when a room last steadied you.

Some people are very good at this because they were handed the job at six years old, in a house where somebody had to keep everyone level. It becomes…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 28:73

Real rest, closeness and unhurried prayer all ask for the same thing: being still while feeling safe. That is harder than it sounds if stillness has ever been dangerous.

It is why some people cope beautifully in a crisis and find a quiet evening unbearable, and why intimacy and slow worship are often the last things…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 78:10

If you cannot feel your own state yet, a device that shows it on a screen can stand in until you can.

Ear clips and phone apps that display your heart rhythm turn something invisible into a light changing colour, and for people who have spent years…

Twenty minutesYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 2:260

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