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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.
When you genuinely cannot know what someone thought of you, the harsh guess is no more accurate than the kind one. Since you are inventing either way, invent the version that lets you carry on with your day.
This is not positive thinking. It is noticing the moment you moved from evidence to invention, because at that point you get a say. A short reply…
Picture spilling coffee down your shirt on the way in. One version: the day is ruined and everyone will see. Another: this is going to be a good story by eleven. Same coffee, two different days.
The part that decides is the sentence you say about the event, and it usually arrives so fast that it feels like part of the event itself. Slowing…
If cognitive behavioural therapy is the approach you keep being offered for ADHD, part of the reason is that it is easy to measure. It has good evidence behind it, and being the most studied is not the same as being the only thing that helps.
Structured, session by session approaches produce tidy numbers, so they get trialled more often and written up more often. That leaves quieter…
The change mostly happens between the sessions rather than in them. Catching a thought where it actually turns up, at the kitchen table or in the car park, is what makes a new one stick.
Make it small enough to survive a bad week. One thought written down as it came, and one line underneath saying what else might be true. If you have…
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