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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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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 1Twenty minutes 2
Who it is written for
Me 4A practitioner 4Someone I care about 4
Theme · Letting it out safely
The moment before you snap 32Cool the body first 31Grounding and settling 30Choosing your response 28Your nervous system 24Touch and bodywork 22Staying regulated in conflict 20What anger actually is 20The fear underneath anger 18Feelings and focus 16Equanimity and perspective 15Tolerate distress 11The cost of avoiding 10Breathing 10Feeling from the inside 9Answering bids 9Systems for daily life 9Screens and attention 8Medication and how it works 8Moving your body 8Practising under provocation 8Shame 8Getting assessed and diagnosed 7What worry does 7Making it stick 6When everything feels flat 6Shame and stigma 6Affection and touch 6Breaking the worry loop 6Bringing the future closer 6When anger turns to harm 6What you are actually defending 5Question the thought 5Food, caffeine and fuel 5Emotions as signals 5Facing it a step at a time 5Treatment and medication 5Knowing your partner 5Posture and how you carry yourself 4Growing empathy 4Obsessions and compulsions 4Get started 4Letting it out safely 4Calm the body 3Being seen and judged 3Let the wave come 3Listening and understanding 3Name what you feel 3Exercise, food and other supports 3Righteous anger and perfectionism 3Safety and grounding 3Working with anger 3Rebuild trust 2Patience and trust 2Your sense of time 2Meaning after harm 2Self-compassion 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2When you use something to cope 2Ride the urge 2Treatment and medication 2Structure and routine 2Care for yourself in loss 1Act on your values 1Remembering to do it 1Validate yourself and others 1What ADHD actually is 1Your window of tolerance 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Rest and pacing 1Repair after rupture 1Shared spiritual life 1Panic and the body 1Listen to the body 1

There is motion sitting inside the word emotion. Big feelings come out through the body, so if you cannot keep still while you are grieving, that is the feeling moving rather than something going wrong with you.

Think how strange it would be if someone heard they had come into a fortune and just said thank you and carried on with the morning. Joy gets up and…

A minuteLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 12:84

Punching something to get the anger out is the piece of grief advice that gets argued over most, and the honest answer is that hitting rarely leaves a person calmer.

Plenty of good people will tell you a bag is better than a wall or a face, and there is something in that. What has not held up is the older idea…

Five minutesLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 14:26

Give the anger a room rather than a target. Music up loud, walk fast, dance badly, shake your arms out until something in you settles.

Some children's grief centres keep a padded room where a child can go in and move however they need to, with nothing to hit and nothing to break.…

Twenty minutesLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 10:12

Write the exact thing you are furious about on a paper plate, tape it to the wall, and throw wet cotton balls at it. It sounds childish, and it does more than swinging at nothing.

Half the good of it is in the writing. Vague anger has to become a sentence before it can go on the plate, and reading that sentence back usually…

Twenty minutesLetting it out safelyGriefQur’an 38:41

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