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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.
Being told not to worry has never once stopped anybody worrying, including you. If a friend said it to you tomorrow you would carry straight on.
This is worth saying to a parent who feels they are failing at comforting their child. They are not bad at it. The words simply do not do that job…
Asking again and again whether it will be alright, and being told yes, buys a few seconds of calm and guarantees the next round of asking. The kindness in the answer is what keeps it going.
You can hear it in the shape of the question: the same one, worded slightly differently, asked of the same person. If you are the one being asked,…
Say the coping sentence aloud instead of thinking it. Some people generate very little of that inner commentary on their own, and hearing it in the room does the job the inner voice was supposed to do.
Out loud, in your own words, something like: my brain is doing the thing again, this is chemistry, it is here because I care. Say it in the car, in…
You will not talk a driven person out of worrying, so give the worry a better job. If someone frets about their revision, have them fret about whether they are also taking breaks and sleeping, since those are part of the revision.
This works because it uses the drive rather than fighting it. The same conscientiousness that produces the twelfth hour at the desk will produce a…
There is more about worry and anxiety than the practices: the worry and anxiety area has the themes and the courses too.