Top 3 Tips to Manage Anger Plus Live Q and A - With Nick Wignall

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Psychologist Nick Wignall and I share our top three tips for managing anger, then we answer your questions about anger. Check out Nick's Channel here:    / @thefriendlymind  

Anger is probably one of the most misunderstood emotions. But you can learn to work through it and resolve it, you've got to learn some essential skills.

Nick’s 3:
Anger vs Aggression. You can feel angry without acting out your anger in the form of aggression—either mental or physical.
Anger is a positive emotion. Important to acknowledge because it explains why we have so many bad habits around anger that perpetuate it (ruminating, criticizing, complaining, etc.)
Anger as procrastination. Being angry feels productive, so we end up using it as an excuse for not acting assertively.

Emma's 3:
1. Anger serves a function, it's not a "Bad emotion" it can help us be alerted to threats and injustice and it can motivate us to take action
2. But, anger lies to us all the time. sometimes it's a secondary emotion, and sometimes it's based on a cognitive distortion.
3. You can process anger using the emotion processing model:
Emotion Processing OWECAN

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