Articles tagged with: Anger Management
Posted in Growth on 2 October 2008
As long as you are aware of what you are feeling, doing and thinking, you will be able to form your own anger management style – one which suits you and you feel comfortable in. There will be lot of points where you will stop and wonder what action to take next – which is all right. Books and internet is filled with practical advice on ‘what to do’. The missing part usually is ‘what to think’. That is the gap I aim to fill with this series. With the right thinking direction, the ‘what to do’ solutions offered will start making sense. You will be able to then decide which solutions are meant for you and which aren’t.
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Posted in Book Reviews, Growth on 30 September 2008
“This book made me angry! Why couldn’t Ms. Engel have written it years ago when it would have helped me through difficult times? Honor Your Anger: How Transforming Your Anger is a clearly written, insightful look at a topic that concerns everyone. You can indeed learn to understand and manage your anger, and this book will show you how.” – Robert Epstein, Ph.D., West Coast Editor, Psychology Today
Read MorePosted in Growth on 23 September 2008
[...] In my early days, I too reacted to anger with fight or flight. Sadly, neither worked. A fight became a battle of wills, a battle of who is right. Of course to me I was always right and ditto with the other party (After a point, it anyways didn’t matter. All that mattered was who won the battle). And a flight became avoiding confrontations, avoiding anger, keeping everything bottled within. An anger which keeps boiling within is all consuming. It finds it’s release either by draining the anger keeper physically and emotionally or it explodes and transforms from flight to fight (equally unproductive).
