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

4 practices

Cool the body first Twenty minutes Struggling right now Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 17 Five minutes 8 Twenty minutes 4

Who it is written for

Me 4 A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 3

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Struggling right now 4 Coping, mostly 2

Theme · Cool the body first

What ADHD actually is 10 Systems for daily life 7 Screens and attention 7 Moving your body 6 Medication and how it works 6 Food, caffeine and fuel 6 Feelings and focus 6 Shame 5 Get started 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 5 Tolerate distress 5 Treatment and medication 5 Cool the body first 4 Your nervous system 4 Shame and stigma 3 Being seen and judged 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Emotions as signals 3 What anger actually is 2 What worry does 2 Letting it out safely 2 When you use something to cope 2 Choosing your response 2 Remembering to do it 2 Your sense of time 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When everything feels flat 1 Grounding and settling 1 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Equanimity and perspective 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Use your strengths 1 What you are actually defending 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Question the thought 1

Approach

Body based 3 Core 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 After a row 2

Anger numbs. If it is doing the work of a painkiller for you, it will be hard to put down while the pain underneath is still untreated.

Ask what tends to be there in the half hour before you flare: a bit of shame, feeling small, an old fear about being left. The anger often arrives to…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstCoreQur’an 94:1

If the irritability came in alongside a low patch, or a spell of racing thoughts and hardly any sleep, have the mood looked at rather than treating the temper on its own.

Irritability is part of depression, and it belongs to the mixed and elevated states of bipolar disorder too. Anger skills are still worth having, and…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 78:9

Shouting it out does not empty the tank. Going over it loudly, in your head or at somebody, tends to keep the anger topped up rather than draining it.

There is a difference between letting pressure out of the body and rehearsing the grievance. A walk, a swim, hard cleaning, prayer: all of that…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 89:27

Anger leaves fuel in the body with nowhere to go. Spend it on something physical, without replaying the argument while you do.

This is not getting it off your chest. The target is the surplus energy, so stairs, a brisk walk, or a hard ten minutes of almost anything will do…

Twenty minutesCool the body firstBody basedQur’an 28:73

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