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 Someone I care about Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 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 37 Moving your body 26 Medication and how it works 20 Screens and attention 16 The cost of avoiding 15 What ADHD actually is 15 Treatment and medication 14 Reading, numbers and learning differences 12 Your nervous system 11 Get started 10 Your sense of time 10 Feelings and focus 8 Exercise, food and other supports 8 Bringing the future closer 7 What anger actually is 7 Grounding and settling 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Shame and stigma 5 Breathing 5 Food, caffeine and fuel 5 Remembering to do it 5 Cool the body first 5 Facing it a step at a time 4 When you use something to cope 4 The fear underneath anger 4 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Structure and routine 3 The moment before you snap 3 What worry does 3 Touch and bodywork 2 Tolerate distress 2 Letting it out safely 2 Equanimity and perspective 2 When everything feels flat 2 Making it stick 2 Use your strengths 2 Shame 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1 Growing empathy 1 Choosing your response 1 Rest and pacing 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Being seen and judged 1 What you are actually defending 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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