Practices

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.

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Anger, alcohol and the body Twenty minutes Me Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Me

Someone I care about 3 A practitioner 3 Me 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 1

Theme · Anger, alcohol and the body

Systems for daily life 38 Medication and how it works 26 Moving your body 24 Get started 17 Your nervous system 14 Feelings and focus 14 What ADHD actually is 13 Treatment and medication 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Your sense of time 10 Bringing the future closer 9 What anger actually is 9 Screens and attention 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 The moment before you snap 8 Shared spiritual life 7 Grounding and settling 6 Tolerate distress 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Cool the body first 6 Touch and bodywork 6 Exercise, food and other supports 5 When you use something to cope 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Breathing 5 Breaking the worry loop 5 Shame 5 Emotions as signals 5 Repair after rupture 4 Growing empathy 4 Remembering to do it 4 Being seen and judged 4 Rituals of connection 4 Choosing your response 4 Shame and stigma 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Knowing your partner 3 When everything feels flat 3 Practising under provocation 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Use your strengths 3 What worry does 3 Answering bids 2 Structure and routine 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Making it stick 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Letting it out safely 2 Question the thought 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Listen to the body 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Treatment and medication 1 What you are actually defending 1 Keep the bond 1 Safety and grounding 1 Rest and pacing 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 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

Hormones are part of this for everyone, not only for men and not only in adolescence. If your flares seem to arrive with a rhythm, that rhythm is worth writing down.

Episodes that look random from close up often turn out to have a shape once there is a record of them: a point in a monthly cycle, a change of…

Twenty minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 32:9

Anger has a chemistry of its own. There is nothing to pour down the sink and nobody to stop selling it to you, which is why letting it go feels like losing something rather than putting something down.

The lift is real. Heat, clarity, energy, a body that suddenly knows exactly what to do. Take that away and leave a gap where it was, and within a…

Twenty minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 13:28

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