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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.
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…
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…
Being far apart is not the same as being out of touch. What usually stops contact is the question of who starts it, not the miles.
Distance turns into disconnection when both people wait for the other one. It helps to fix a when rather than promising to speak soon. The same…
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