We haven’t had some book love for a while here on the blog so I thought I would share two great new resources available from friends and colleagues of mine. The Cuckoo Syndrome: The Secret to Breaking Free from Unhealthy Relationships, Toxic Thinking, and Self-Sabotaging Behavior by Andrea Anderson Polk Andrea is a good friend […] [Read More...]

We have made it to the final post in the series on anger! We began by looking at the positive functions anger plays in our lives: both as a messenger and a catalyst for change. We then explored the ways that anger can hijack our nervous systems and be expressed in unhelpful and sometimes harmful […] [Read More...]

We have been exploring the emotion of anger in this series of blog posts. Over the past few weeks, we have looked at anger as a messenger, presenting us with vital wisdom and information, and as a catalyst, prompting us to create change when needed. Last week we looked at the unhelpful defensive strategies that […] [Read More...]

Thus far in this series about anger, we have looked at the way betrayal creates anger, and how important it is to slow down and allow ourselves to receive the messages our anger is trying to send. We have also explored how anger is a catalyst, urging us to create change around things that are […] [Read More...]

In the same way that anger is a messenger, it is also a catalyst. Merriam-Webster defines a catalyst as “an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.” In other words, anger lets us know that something needs to change. Something about our current situation is not serving us well, and corrective action is […] [Read More...]