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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.
There is a kind of anger that floods a room and a kind that arrives with a request inside it. The second one gets answered.
The difference is audible before it is anything else: the voice steadier, the sentence shorter, an actual ask at the end of it. I am angry, and what…
Say the frightened thing rather than the sharp thing. It is far more exposing and it is the only version that tends to get a kind reply.
Under most rows sits something like I think there is something wrong with me, or I have already lost you and I am pretending I have not. Sharp words…
Going numb is a good way to survive something and a poor way to live near someone. It shuts the line in both directions at once.
When you cannot feel your own signal you also stop picking up theirs, so the room goes quiet even when they are reaching for you. The loneliness that…
I am used to it is not the same as I feel nothing. It usually means a great deal of practice at feeling nothing, and that practice costs something.
Believe the person when they say they are used to it, and hear what is inside the sentence: this has happened often enough that they have built…
There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.
When somebody says they just get on with it, take the getting on with it seriously. That is the door, and arguing with the nothing is a wall.
This happens a lot, I just roll with it, I forget about it: there is a whole strategy in that sentence and it is visible, unlike the feeling…