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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.
Some triggers make no sense because the memory attached to them is long gone while the alarm is still wired in. A tone of voice, a particular shirt, the smell of dinner burning.
If you find yourself furious out of all proportion, look at the features rather than the story. What did that moment sound like, look like, feel like…
Set the terms of a break while nobody is angry: what you will say, how long you will take, where you will go, and that you will not drive. Then it is a shared arrangement rather than something you do to the other person.
Leaving can be used as a weapon. Two days of silence, walking out while someone is crying, driving off into the night: all of that can wear the…
You cannot talk yourself out of a state you are not in yet. Anything you want to have available when you are angry has to be practised, not merely understood.
Reading about a technique and having it in your hands with a hot face are two different things. So rehearse while you are calm and it feels a bit…
What changes things is what you actually rehearse. Advice you agreed with does very little on its own.
So take one thing and repeat it rather than collecting ten good ideas. One breathing practice, one line to say, one route out of the room. Repeated…
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