Anger provides a way to temporarily numb or avoid pain, which is why, when you bang your thumb hanging a picture, you don't pray. It’s a survival-based function of anger—if you’re being attacked by a ...
Every parent has feelings, too. Anger is one of those emotions. Befriending your anger can help it feel less scary and help ...
Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker. But this common metaphor is misleading, ...
We all understand anger. It hides in traffic, at home during an argument, in line, or even when nothing important happens. No one uses the phrase "anger issues." They say it's stress, or that thing ...