EP 202: Reader Question - How do I deal with anger?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What happens when we are able to change our relationship with alcohol – for the better – but some emotions emerge that we haven’t appropriately dealt with for a long time? How do I channel anger, specifically? Find out what Annie has learned from an actual anger management coach and how anger itself fits into our society. Learn some tips about how to deal with anger the right way.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	And today I have a question from Jake actually.
0:33.1	And Jake says, hi Annie, I'm 45, I've had a drink problem since I was 16, I've had a very
0:38.4	good life and done well despite the drinking.
0:40.8	But I've been sober now for several months with the help of your book and very much now see
0:45.5	drinking as the enemy not as my best friend.
0:47.7	However, over the last few weeks I get anger with just about everything and everyone with
0:52.2	no reason and I feel the sense of emptiness with no real purpose, any ideas of how I can
0:57.2	snap out of it.
0:59.0	So anger is a really interesting question because I think that when you experience something
1:07.0	sort of yourself, you know, you can relate to it and you can tell your own stories and
1:11.6	of all the things that I've experienced, depression, sadness, anxiety, anger hasn't been
1:16.6	a big one for me.
1:17.8	So answering this, I had to do a bit of research and I actually had to ask some people who do
1:23.5	kind of experience anger and I actually went out and reached out to someone who's an anger
1:27.0	coach.
1:28.1	And there were some fascinating things that I learned and some techniques.
1:32.2	So the first thing is kind of, I learned that anger is actually a secondary emotion.
1:38.5	So what that means is it is a mask for another emotion.
1:42.7	So for example, say you feel angry with your children because they are misbehaving
1:48.3	and being mean to each other and that anger feels very real and it's very intense.
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