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If something on the FAQ page did not quite answer what you came for, the fastest route is email. Notes about a specific post, corrections, or a routine that worked for you are all welcome. Reader mail is read in batches, usually on weekday mornings, so a reply can take a few days.
Best for detailed questions, corrections to a post, or sharing how a drill went over several weeks.
For short, practical questions. If it needs a long answer, email is the better channel.
For printed notes, book suggestions, or anything that reads better on paper.
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Monday to Thursday, 09:00 to 16:00. Friday is kept for writing, so replies may land early the following week.
Email is usually answered within two to four working days. Phone calls are picked up during the hours above, and a message left outside them gets a call back.
This is a blog, not a clinic. Questions about a diagnosis, medication, or an urgent situation belong with a doctor, psychologist, or local emergency service rather than this inbox.
Most readers arrive with the same handful of doubts: whether this is therapy, how much time a routine actually takes, and what to do when a drill stops working. The answers below are the short versions. Where a topic needs more room, the longer notes live in the posts themselves.
No. Everything here is self-directed practice: reframing drills, attention habits, sleep and stress basics. Those tools can sit alongside professional care, but they are not a diagnosis and not a treatment plan. If thoughts loop no matter how often you write them down, or sleep never recovers, that is a signal to speak to a psychologist or counsellor rather than push harder on a routine.
The exercises are built for real weeks, not retreats. A two-minute reframe before a difficult meeting, a short attention block, and three journaling prompts in the evening is a workable starting point. If a routine needs an hour of quiet to function, it will collapse the first busy Tuesday. Start smaller than feels impressive and let it hold for a few weeks before adding anything.
With the beginner series, then the habit library. The series explains what brain retraining is and is not, in plain language and without clinical jargon. The library is where you assemble something that fits your actual week. Reading the essays first is fine too, but they assume you already have a rough idea of the basics.
That happens, and the posts say so rather than pretending otherwise. Some reframes land immediately, others do nothing for weeks and then quietly change how a conversation goes. If something has had a fair run and still feels like punishment, drop it. A routine you resent is worse than no routine, and there are enough alternatives in the library to swap it out.
No. The writing is aimed at readers in South Africa and beyond, and the exercises do not depend on where you are. The only local detail that matters is practical: when a post suggests finding a professional, it points to how that tends to work locally, including what a first session usually looks like.
Write to info@adjustingyourbrain.com or call 057 821 3546. Questions about a specific drill, a stalled habit, or a book worth covering are all fair game. The monthly mailbag answers a few at a time, and anything personal gets trimmed before it goes out.
Still unsure where to go? The questions page walks through the reading order, and contact is the fastest route if your question is not covered here.
Most questions that land here are about a drill that stopped working, a log that stopped making sense, or where the line sits between daily practice and seeing someone qualified. Write to us and you get a reply from the person who wrote the post, not a template.
Best for longer questions, corrections, or notes about a habit log you kept.
info@adjustingyourbrain.comWeekdays, 09:00 to 16:00 SAST. Short questions about the beginner series or the habit library.
057 821 3546If you prefer paper, or you are sending a printed log to look at.
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Replies usually go out within two working days. Reader mail that arrives over a weekend gets read on Monday morning. If your message is about a specific post, mention the title and roughly when you read it, that saves a round trip. Questions about sleep, medication, or anything that sounds clinical get pointed to a professional rather than answered here, because that is not what this blog is for.