What anger is for
What you learned about it growing up, and what it has been trying to tell you.
Maybe it comes out too hot. Maybe it never comes out at all, and it settles in as resentment and a tired “it’s fine.” Anger fires when something you care about is being crossed. This workbook will not ask you to get rid of it. It helps you hear it first, and then decide what you do.
$16 · 33 pages · Digital fillable PDF, sent by email
The trouble is almost never the anger itself. It is what most of us were taught to do with it: swallow it until it turns into resentment, or let it fly and clean up the damage after.
These pages separate anger from aggression, and they ask what sits underneath the heat, often hurt or fear. The shift they are built around is a simple one, from being run by the fire to being warmed by it.
Six sections, built to be worked in order, with twenty exercises you write straight into.
What you learned about it growing up, and what it has been trying to tell you.
How a spark becomes a loop, with a baseline check-in you return to at the end.
Anger turned outward as heat, and anger turned inward as resentment.
What tends to light the fire, watched in real time, and the need underneath it.
Six patterns that turn a spark into a fire, and a thought record for cooling them.
The pause, the wave, and a cooling menu of what actually helps when it is hot.
Words for anger that can be heard, and a page for repair after a rupture.
A letter to your anger, journaling prompts, and one line a day for thirty days.
For the person whose anger keeps getting ahead of them, and just as much for the person who has spent years saying it’s fine. Many people who hold their anger in never think of themselves as angry at all. If you recognize yourself in either one, this was written for you.
This is a self-help workbook, and not therapy. If your anger has frightened you or the people around you, or someone you love has told you they feel unsafe, please treat that as the signal it is and reach for real support. Call or text 988, or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, which is there for anyone on either side of harm at home. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
33 pages. Type into the fields on your screen, or print it and write by hand. A page a day is a good pace, and nothing here gets graded.
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Anger Workbook
When anger has been asking for your attention for a long time, it can help to have someone across from you. A free conversation is a good place to start, and there is no pitch in it. If anyone is unsafe at home, the hotline above comes first.
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