Best advice? Feed your demons.
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In the Chöd practice you welcome them like you would your child, gradually get a bodily felt sense of how they are doing and what they need, arouse intense compassion, and visualize feeding them your body (your most prized possession) cheffed up to satisfy the need.
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Lama tsultrim allione has a great book that makes this practice a beautiful and vivid drawing/journaling/meditation practice, called feeding your demons, I have found it very helpful!
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I lllllove the creative aspect of it- taking time to use my intuition to really imagine what my “demon” looks like and wants, and then feeling like I had the agency to work WITH it to transform it into an ally— really helped me with some compulsive behavior
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I've been looking for a visualization practice - that doesn't sound boring as hell - for a while now. This sounds very good for that!
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I suspect the photocopy might have seen may have been Jamgon Kongtrul’s “Garden of All Joy” which describes a chöd practice that is definitely not boring. Short text but the practice described is complicated and you’d still need a lot of personal guidance.
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Yeah, this branching of Tibetan Buddhism I have very little experience with. Which is odd, because it seems closer to my temperament than anything I have actually practiced...