Inspired Living

 Anger is a powerful feeling. It’s a normal and healthy emotion that happens when you are frustrated, hurt, annoyed, or disappointed. It could be the result of something that happens to you, something someone said or did, or something you remember. Anger is a normal, healthy emotion, neither good nor bad. Like any emotion, it conveys a message, telling you that a situation is upsetting, unjust, or threatening. If your knee-jerk reaction to anger is to explode, however, that message never has a chance to be conveyed. So, while it’s perfectly normal to feel angry when you’ve been mistreated or wronged, anger becomes a problem when you express it in a way that harms yourself or others. Anger management is a way to lessen the effects that anger has on you. Anger is a normal reaction and feeling, so you cannot make it go away. But you can learn to manage it better. Anger management refers to a process. It can help people identify stressors. People learn steps to help them stay calm in...