Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences, but how we manage it can impact our mental and physical health and of course out relationships. If we don’t manage anger in a healthy way, it will continue to bring perpetual conflicts and strained relationships – no one wants that.
Here are 4 recommendations on how you can manage anger in a healthy way, that will help to improve your well being and your relationship others and your partner.
1. Be open with your Communication.
There’s no point is bottling up frustration, anger or disappointment for it to only comes out through angry responses of hurtful words, bad decisions and inappropriate behaviours.
Instead of lashing out, begin to express your feelings calmly and clearly. This allows you to open up and share what’s going on for you and also gives others a chance to understand your perspective or pain points. This mutual understanding is the cornerstone of any healthy relationship you have. To learn how to communicate anger better, enrol into the Online Anger Management Course.
2. Increase your Empathy.
When you practice healthy anger management it encourages you to self-reflect, this in turn helps to nurture empathy, within yourself and towards others and those whom you love. By slowing down your reactive anger response and understanding why you’re angry, you’ll also consider the feelings and viewpoints of others too. This empathetic approach helps build stronger emotional connections with otehrs and creates an more emotionally safe environment for conversations to happen instead of reactive anger, which only leads to more hurt.
3. Use Strategies to Manage Anger.
Managing anger constructively allows you to handle conflict better and arrive to a resolution. Instead of escalating disagreements, use strategies that allow you to catch yourself (before you go off!), slow down (pause and reflect on the situation) and finally respond with better replies that lead to better outcomes (instead of dealing with the aftermath of a blow up). When expressing yourself you can use ‘I’ statements without blaming others for example ‘I feel upset when…’
This proactive attitude helps you to manage your anger responses and can resolve issues more quickly – ultimately prevents conflicts turning into major disputes and not damaging relationships.
To learn strategies on how to manage anger, enrol into the Online Anger Management Course.
4. Get Anger Management Support.
Sometimes going it alone in trying to manage your anger can be extremely hard or possibly impossible to figure out on your own.
By establishing a support plan where you can focus on learning and practicing better anger management responses is a start.
Often the first step is the hardest.
Some Anger Management Support systems can include:
- professional help for Anger Management Counselling Sessions
- complete Anger Managment Course.
- confide in those close to you whom you know will support you as you make changes into practicing better anger responses.
By learning to manage anger in a healthy way, you begin to take control of yourself and not let anger control you.
When you manage anger in a proactive way, you create stronger skills in handling challenging situations that leads you to feeling better about yourself and leads to more fulfilling relationships with others and your partner.
To learn ‘real-life’ strategies to manage anger, enrol into the
Anger Management Online Course
– 2 hours to complete (approx)
– Approved Court Certificate
– $220
Linda also offers:
Separation and Co-parenting Counselling
Couples Counselling
FIFO Counselling
Women’s Counselling
Men’s Counselling
Healthy Relationship Course
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About Linda…
Linda is a Counsellor, Coach and Educator in areas of relationships.
She believes acceptance, safety and security is of the utmost importance at the core of any relationship. Linda helps Couples, Individuals and those going through separation, co-parenting and/or divorce. Having worked with people from all walks of life, from diverse backgrounds to various life situations, Linda understands the complexities and challenges that people experience in relationships.
Linda offers Online Zoom sessions and In-person session.
To know how to work wtih Linda visit www.lindakelly.com.au
