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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 someone keeps doing the risky thing after every explanation, the missing piece is usually not information. The pull is simply louder than the knowledge.
Which means another lecture is mostly wasted breath, while changing what is within reach is not. Fewer bottles in the house, a route home that avoids…
If a young person is using regularly, waiting to see whether they grow out of it is a gamble. Help early is nearly always cheaper than help later.
Families often hold off because raising it feels like an accusation. You can raise it without one: say what you have noticed, say you are not going…
When all you can say is that something happened and you went off, take it apart in five pieces: what set it off, how you read it, what your body did, what you made it mean, and what you wanted to do next.
Written out on paper it usually stops being a blur. You often find the trigger was small and the meaning was enormous, or that your body was already…
Take one episode from this week and give it five lines: what set it off, how you read it, what happened in your body, what you took it to mean, and what you wanted to do.
Doing this with an actual event, rather than in general, is what makes it useful. Keep the lines short and resist tidying them into something more…
There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.