21/11/2022
🤬😡ANGER😡🤬
Who are you really angry with? What are you really angry about? and what can you learn from it?
I work with a lot of people who have experienced trauma in the past or are currently experiencing stress😣, anxiety 😰or grief 😪 and find that it shows itself in the form of anger.
Anger is a perfectly normal human response. It's a common secondary emotion that can come from a number of different underlying causes.
- Sometimes the anger comes out in ways we may later regret.
- Sometimes it causes us to react to things in ways we wouldn't otherwise choose to.
- Sometimes our anger is aimed at other people, people who may not actually deserve it.
- Sometimes it's aimed at ourselves and it may be harder to see that we don't deserve it either.
The problem with anger is that it can be really frustrating.😫 When we feel angry about something, our initial response is unlikely to be a calm, clear-headed exploration into why we feel that way. We may have lots of past experiences of our own anger screwing us over in impressive ways!
So, we often try to bury our anger, or ignore it completely.
This rarely works. In fact, it likely leaves us feeling even worse.
Maybe it does work… for a time. ?But then it keeps building and building until we explode - often in a way that can hurt ourselves or people around us who we really don’t want to hurt.
It does’t have to be that way!
As with any emotion, it can teach us something. We are experiencing it for a reason (rational or otherwise) and exploring it can help us to understand it, to move past it and, ultimately, to feel better in any number of different ways.
So my top tip to you is simple - allow it. As with any other emotion, allow it and accept it for what it is. Look for the lesson within in. Who knows what you might learn.
Maybe you know exactly where you anger stems from. Maybe you don’t feel like you want to know. Maybe you’re even angry at yourself for how angry you’re feeling. Either way, if you’d like to change it, I can help.
If you’d like some support, please get in touch. Everything is 100% confidential and I offer a free consultation to see if we are the right fit for each other. If we are not, I’m sure I can at least point you in the right direction.