Yep! You read that right! Anger is a healthy emotion. We are meant to feel anger! It’s there for a reason. The part that can be unhealthy is the way that we respond to anger.
Most of us have never learned appropriate emotion, regulation skills. Some of us have been told that feeling no emotion is better than recognizing them.
I’m here to tell you that is a lie! Regulating our emotions can be really tricky. But it’s a skill that everybody can build! Just like you build a muscle in a gym, building on your mindfulness and emotional regulation skills can help you respond in a healthy way to big feelings like anger. It’s also important that we work on these skills in ourselves so that we can help our children build these skills as well.
What is a positive way that you can respond to anger?
Would you be interested in having a course all about emotional regulation skills?