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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.
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…
A great many people worry silently and look perfectly calm doing it. Families are often astonished to find out how much has been going on.
If someone in your house goes quiet, spends longer alone, or seems flat rather than agitated, that can be worry rather than indifference. You will…
Whatever approach the anxious person is learning, teach it to the people they live with. A skill that only one person in the house knows gets overridden by everyone else's habits.
Families have a settled way of responding to distress, usually built out of love, and it will win against anything learned in an hour once a week. So…
With a child, make it a job rather than a lesson. They are the detective, the worried thought is the claim, and the task is to collect what supports it and what does not before deciding anything.
Two columns on a page, in their handwriting, not yours. Ask what a friend would notice, what happened the last three times, what would have to be…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.