When Anger Scares You: How to Overcome Your Fear of Conflict and Express Your Anger in Healthy Ways

About this book

Anger is a natural response that can be if properly channeled a powerful source of energy and motivation for growth. Some people though habitually shy away from their own angry feelings and potentially anger-provoking situations. When confronted with a provocative or confrontational situation an anger avoider feels that to express anger is to risk losing control hurting someone elses feelings or appearing to be a rude unlikable or bad person. By side-stepping healthy anger expression anger avoiders may suffer more than just frustration and resentment: panic attacks and depression subservience and passivity headaches and chronic pain often plague people who deny themselves a constructive outlet for their anger. With this book first youll learn to separate anger from rage or fear. Then youll practice a series of simple easy-to-follow exercises that coach you to openly express your anger and constructively address difficult people and situations. The book directs you to align yourself with your anger using it as a tool for positive change. It helps you to set and achieve goals for constructive anger expression.