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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.
Going from talking online to talking in person is not one more step up the same ladder. It is a different ladder, and it deserves rungs of its own.
Those rungs might run from voice notes, to a phone call, to a video call with the camera on, to meeting one person you already know somewhere quiet,…
When a step does not happen, cut the next one down without any speech about it. Smaller, and carry on.
Progress here is often slower than anyone would like, and that is the method working rather than the method failing. What does real damage is a run…
Panic rarely comes out of nowhere. It usually lands on a body already short of sleep, running on coffee and eating at odd hours, so whatever tipped it over did not have far to push.
This is not a telling off about your habits. It is that the same argument or deadline arrives very differently at a rested body than at a wrecked…
Stay with a step until it stops being interesting. Not until you have survived it once, but until it is ordinary, and then move up.
Moving on too early turns the ladder into a run of narrow escapes, and each escape teaches that you got out just in time. The marker worth waiting…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
If this has been going on for years, medication is often part of what helps, and it usually needs a longer run at it than people expect. Starting low and building up slowly is the normal way of doing it.
The slow build is there to keep side effects bearable through the first few weeks, which is where most people quietly give up. It helps to agree with…