Practices

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.

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Some of these do have real evidence behind them. St John's wort has repeated support in mild to moderate depression, SAMe and methylfolate have reasonable backing as additions to treatment, and omega-3 has looked weaker in the larger and better run trials.

That last part is worth sitting with, because it is what usually happens. An early promising effect shrinks as trials get bigger and better…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 7:32One line of research

If you want to use herbal remedies, two things carry most of the risk. Make sure whoever prescribes for you knows what you are taking, and buy from a source that has been independently tested.

That is a short list on purpose. Nearly all the harm in this area comes from an interaction nobody knew about or a product that was not what it…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:168One line of research

Herbal products are rarely covered by insurance and they add up quickly. That cost belongs in the decision, particularly when you cannot be sure the capsule holds what it says.

Money spent here is money not spent elsewhere, and often the alternative is a treatment that is covered and has been tested. Nobody is telling you…

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What you feel does not stay in your head. Emotional states register in the body's immune signalling too, which is one reason a long stretch of unspoken distress can leave you physically run down.

This is not a claim that you can think yourself well or ill. It is closer to saying the body keeps a tally. If you have been carrying something heavy…

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Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.

Feeling from the inside

What you are actually defending

The cost of avoiding

Structure and routine

Breaking the worry loop

Reading, numbers and learning differences

Remembering to do it

Growing empathy

Being seen and judged

Facing it a step at a time

Making it stick

Treatment and medication

When you use something to cope

Righteous anger and perfectionism

Obsessions and compulsions

Tolerate distress

Rebuilding trust

Staying regulated in conflict

When anger turns to harm

Posture and how you carry yourself

Listening and understanding

Question the thought

Shared spiritual life

Rituals of connection

Living with uncertainty

Anger, alcohol and the body

Meaning after harm

Work with your brain

Your window of tolerance

Get it out of your head

Ask and say no well

Let the wave come

Help someone grieving

Your worth is not conditional

Face it gently

Letting it out safely

Working with anger

Notice the pattern and flex

Affection and touch

Calm the body

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Medical and treatment

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Water, sleep, food and digestion are not the boring preamble to the real work. When those are running badly, everything else you try has less to work with.

It can feel almost insulting to be asked about breakfast when what you carry is so much bigger than breakfast. But a body short of sleep and short of…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:79One line of research

Health advice usually assumes a kitchen, a fridge and money for the week. If you are working with less than that, the answer is not to try harder at the advice. It is to shrink the plan until it fits what you actually have.

A plan you cannot keep does more than fail. It quietly adds to the pile of evidence that nothing you do makes any difference, and that pile is heavy…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185One line of research

When digestion goes wrong there are usually two things to look at rather than one: something you are eating that does not suit you, and a body too braced to digest properly. Checking only one door tends to leave you stuck.

Digestion mostly happens when your body believes it is safe. If you eat every meal with your shoulders up round your ears, that alone can show up as…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 106:4One line of research

A physical symptom is not a free floating fact. Read it next to what your life has actually held, the early parts included, and it often makes more sense than it does on its own.

This works in both directions. It stops you treating a body complaint as something random that landed on you, and it stops you treating it as a…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 15:22One line of research

Saying a difficulty is in the past is not the same as saying it was never real. Sometimes a picture changes because something that was making it worse got taken away, and the honest words for that are neither cured nor imagining it.

People who have been disbelieved by doctors are very sensitive to this, and with reason. The choice usually gets offered as either it was all in your…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:184One line of research

Months of fog, where thinking feels like wading, is a real complaint and deserves looking into rather than waving away. It usually has more than one cause, which is part of why it gets dismissed.

Fog sits where several things overlap: dissociation, anxiety, poor sleep, thyroid and iron problems, infections, medication. Because it belongs…

Five minutesFood, caffeine and fuelMedical and treatmentQur’an 6:99One line of research