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How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Me

Someone I care about 2 Me 2 A practitioner 2

Theme · Anger, alcohol and the body

Medication and how it works 97 Your nervous system 67 What anger actually is 50 Equanimity and perspective 42 The moment before you snap 39 Touch and bodywork 37 Choosing your response 35 Getting assessed and diagnosed 35 Grounding and settling 35 Systems for daily life 34 Get started 34 Exercise, food and other supports 32 Your sense of time 32 Food, caffeine and fuel 30 Practising under provocation 28 When everything feels flat 28 The fear underneath anger 27 What ADHD actually is 26 Feelings and focus 25 Bringing the future closer 25 Screens and attention 23 Moving your body 21 Cool the body first 20 Breathing 18 Treatment and medication 18 Shame and stigma 18 Feeling from the inside 16 What you are actually defending 16 What worry does 15 Remembering to do it 15 Breaking the worry loop 15 Being seen and judged 14 Emotions as signals 14 Growing empathy 13 Structure and routine 13 Making it stick 11 When you use something to cope 11 Tolerate distress 11 Treatment and medication 10 Facing it a step at a time 9 Staying regulated in conflict 9 Obsessions and compulsions 9 Rebuilding trust 9 Righteous anger and perfectionism 8 Knowing your partner 8 Self-compassion 7 Posture and how you carry yourself 6 Shame 6 Question the thought 5 Listening and understanding 5 Shared spiritual life 4 When you go numb 4 When anger turns to harm 3 Living with uncertainty 3 Use your strengths 3 Rituals of connection 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Meaning after harm 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Act on your values 2 Find meaning 2 Work with your brain 2 Rest and pacing 2 Repair after rupture 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Affection and touch 1 Panic and the body 1 Notice the pattern and flex 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Working with anger 1 Let the wave come 1 Your worth is not conditional 1 Help someone grieving 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Calm the body 1 Ask and say no well 1

When

Any ordinary day 1 After a row 1

Alcohol does not add anger. It takes off the brake. Stimulants do the opposite job and press harder on the accelerator, and having both in you at once is the worst arrangement of the two.

What drink takes first is the part that holds you back, which is why nothing feels different from the inside. You are not angrier, there is simply…

Five minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 4:43

The strongest pull is not the anger by itself. It is anger plus being right, the lift in the body and the certainty of the moral high ground arriving together.

That pairing is genuinely hard to put down, because giving it up means giving up more than a mood. It means not being the wronged one for a while.…

Five minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:53

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