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Anger

Almost nobody wants to be the person who says the thing they cannot take back. The window between the surge and the words is short and it can be widened. That is most of what this area is about, along with the fear or hurt that anger is usually protecting.

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The moment before you snap CBT After a row Clear all

Theme · The moment before you snap

Practising under provocation 6 Choosing your response 4 The moment before you snap 1

Approach · CBT

Core 5 Mindfulness 1 CBT 1

When · After a row

Any ordinary day 3 After a row 1

Most of us rehearse the crushing line we wish we had said. Try spending that same time writing what you would actually like to say next time, and keep it short enough to remember.

Take one real episode from the past week and write two things: what happened, and one sentence you would rather have used. Something like I am…

Twenty minutesThe moment before you snapCBTQur’an 41:34