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 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 3 Someone I care about 3 A practitioner 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 30 Moving your body 26 Treatment and medication 19 Screens and attention 18 Getting assessed and diagnosed 17 Get started 17 What ADHD actually is 17 Feelings and focus 16 The cost of avoiding 15 Reading, numbers and learning differences 14 Your nervous system 14 Food, caffeine and fuel 11 Exercise, food and other supports 10 What anger actually is 10 Your sense of time 10 Bringing the future closer 9 The moment before you snap 8 Touch and bodywork 8 Shared spiritual life 7 Shame 6 Grounding and settling 6 Cool the body first 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Emotions as signals 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Tolerate distress 6 Shame and stigma 5 Breathing 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 When you use something to cope 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 When everything feels flat 5 Remembering to do it 5 Growing empathy 4 When anger turns to harm 4 Rituals of connection 4 What worry does 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 Being seen and judged 4 Choosing your response 4 Repair after rupture 4 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Structure and routine 3 Use your strengths 3 Rebuilding trust 3 Practising under provocation 3 Knowing your partner 3 Making it stick 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Answering bids 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Letting it out safely 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 What you are actually defending 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Safety and grounding 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Treatment and medication 1 Listen to the body 1 Rest and pacing 1 Question the thought 1 Keep the bond 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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