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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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Theme · Anger, alcohol and the body

The moment before you snap 32 Cool the body first 31 Choosing your response 28 What anger actually is 20 The fear underneath anger 18 Equanimity and perspective 15 Practising under provocation 8 Making it stick 6 When anger turns to harm 6 What you are actually defending 5 Growing empathy 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 6 After a row 1 Under stress 1

Anger sends people back to the thing they had stopped, and the thing they had stopped makes the anger worse. Any plan that treats these as two separate projects tends to come apart.

Write anger into the relapse plan by name, alongside the parties, the old friends and the difficult anniversary. Then when you look at the anger, ask…

Twenty minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:168