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Anger Management Decisive Action Sometimes, you need to take action in a situation without becoming explosive (or being passive aggressive). For instance, after weighing your options you might choose to quite your job, or fire an employee. If you are abused by your husband you might choose to leave home and stay with a friend. […]


Anger Management Distortions: Over-Generalizations Any problem can be made to look bigger or more important by using words like “never,” “always,” “nobody,” “everybody,” etc. This is a way of making an occasional occurrence feel like an intolerable ongoing even. By exaggerating, you go way beyond the truth of the situation and set yourself up for […]


Restored After An Affair Restoring trust after betrayal can only be accomplished with consistent openness, truthfulness, honesty and consideration consistently over time. You can’t make someone trust you again, but you can demonstrate you are a trustworthy person. If you do this consistently over time, the spouse may learn to trust again. Two concepts (rules) […]


Poor Self-Care Anger Management Exercise Poor Self-care anger management includes not exercising. You know you should. Everyone knows they should. But if you are like most people, you are either too tired or too busy, and you are not taking care of your body through regular exercise. This wears away at you and burns your […]


Anger Management Poor Self-Care: Sleep If I had a magic wand and I had one wish for all of my anger management clients, it wold be that they got eight restful hours of sleep a night. That would be it. i really believe that a good night’s sleep would salve a huge percentage of anger […]


Anger Management Issues Anger Management Issues requires a person to stop blaming others for his or her own anger. Blaming is the most self-destructive anger distortion. The same can be true in marriage counseling and blaming the other partner. The mistaken belief that underlies blaming is that other people are doing bad things to you, […]


There are Four Key Filters: Moods. If you are in a bad mood, your negative emotional state can be a filter. And if you are in a bad mood, you are more likely to perceive whatever someone says or does more negatively, no matter how positive he or she is trying to be. Moods are […]


Digging Deeper Into Anger Management If you are doing your work in anger management, you have learned how to become aware of your anger, how to stop yourself when you are getting angry, and how to calm yourself down. You have also started to evaluate your anger by considering why you got angry and then […]


Emotion Regulation: Observing Yourself Without Judging Yourself Self-Destructive behaviors can only offer you temporary relief. In the long term, they are all more damaging to yourself and others. For this reason, it’s important that you begin to notice what the rewards are for all your behaviors, but especially the self-destructive ones. This is the key […]


Anger Management Tool: A Look In The Mirror Now think about yourself. When you get angry, it is usually over something that is a real wrong? Is it about a true injustice in the world? Do you find yourself angry about oppression or starving children? Do you find yourself saying, “that’s not right!” about human […]


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