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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.
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…
You are allowed more than one feeling about the same thing. Relief and grief when someone dies. Love for a job you would walk out of today. Neither one cancels the other.
A lot of the distress is not the feelings themselves but the argument over which one is the real one. Try saying both plainly, out loud: I am…
What you expect from a treatment shapes what you get from it. That is worth a conversation before you start, not months later when it has not worked.
If you are beginning something new and half of you thinks it is nonsense, say so. A doubt that stays unspoken tends to come out as a missed…
If rating a feeling out of ten means nothing to you, use something that does. Colour in bubbles, point at a picture, hold your hands apart to show how big it is today.
This began as an adaptation for children, swapping the numbered anxiety ladder for bubbles to colour in, and it is just as useful for anyone who goes…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
After years of feeling slightly outside every room, pulling back stops being a decision and becomes the setting you live at. Worth knowing about yourself before you conclude that you are simply not a people person.
If you are supporting or treating someone with ADHD, assume the connection has to be built rather than already there, and do not read the flatness…