Healthy Anger Toolbox - Change your anger, change your life!
By Marty Wolner
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Healthy Anger Toolbox - Change your anger, change your life!Aug 31, 2021
Angry Brain Training: Special Guest - Author and Mindfulness Trainer Sue Dhillon talks about mindful angry communication and calm brain training
Angry Brain Training: Special Guest - Author and Mindfulness Trainer Sue Dhillon talks about mindful angry communication and calm brain training
How To Use Mindfulness and Meditation in Overcoming Emotional Dysregulation with Sue Dhillon
Communicating powerfully, connecting deeply, and changing your brain habits to respond to angry situations in calmer and more acceptable ways can be challenging. But learning how to overcome negative emotions through meditation will increase your awareness and receptiveness to situations around you. In this episode, I’m joined by Sue Dhillon, a mindful trainer, an author, an independent journalist, and a former Network Journalist. Sue worked as a TV journalist before shifting into mind and body training.
During the episode, Sue shares strategies that you can employ in angry moments from a heart perspective to empower yourself toward mindful communication and how you can handle emotional dysregulation that may happen from such situations.
In This Episode: You Will Learn:[10:12] Sue’s backstory
[01:56] The most genuine tools for empowering yourself when you feel emotionally dysregulated
[03:49] The importance of mindful communication in elevating dialogue and connecting with people
[07:26] The power of forgiving and showing up in emotional resentments
[09:30] Mindful communication tools
[13:28] How to de-escalate emotional dysregulation and move to a comfortable zone
[16:22] Breaking from brain habits and the myths around meditation
[20:21] The benefits of tapping into the natural high powers of meditation
[22:00] Sue’s vision and how you can connect with her
Notable Quotes:● “Mindful communication is the number one and the most powerful way to communicate.”
● “Communication is about connecting, it not about talking, it’s a dialogue.”
● “Conflict is a bad thing; anger is a bad thing but we can use it for our benefits.”
● “People are gonna listen to you if you listen to them at length.”
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Links:Facebook: www.facebook.com/sue.dhillion
How NOT to Lose Control When Your Child Has an Emotional Meltdown or Temper Tantrum
Looking to quickly change your child's temper tantrums or emotional meltdowns? You can learn and master a simple 3-step process to better understand and respond to your child's emotional meltdowns. What do you need at that moment? What does your child need? Empower yourself with new awareness and understand and proven simple tools to change your child's temper tantrums and emotional meltdowns.
Post-Divorce and Chronic Anger - Special Guest Karen McMahon from Journey Beyond Divorce discussing post divorce and chronic anger
Special Guest Karen McMahon discusses proven ways to understand and process your chronic anger in a healthier way after a divorce. Is your anger covering your pain or are you stuck in anger during a grieving process?
How To Overcome Chronic Anger After Divorce With Special Guest Karen McMahon
Grief is a natural, and valuable emotional response towards different situations that we go through, and learning how to respond in a healthy way to move past anger, depression, and denial to acceptance is critical to emotional healing. In this episode, I’m joined by Karen McMahon, the founder of Journey Beyond Divorce organization which specializes in relationship and divorce coaching. Karen is a certified relationship and divorce coach and a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).
After surviving a long and devastating divorce Karen was able to turn her pain into purpose and she has been helping people navigate the myriad difficulties associated with the divorce process. Together with her team of dedicated coaches, they have been working with men and women to help them get to the core of their struggles, redesign situations, and live their best lives.
During the episode, Karen shares the strategies that you can use to empower yourself and reframe your situation to open doors to peace, joy, and calmness to achieve optimal balance in life. She also talks about resistance, and how you can create boundaries for unacceptable behaviors to stay in your powerful lane and control your response.
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:[00:16] Grieving in a healthy way to get past anger, depression, and denial to acceptance
[05:11] How to practice self-compassion, and reframe your situation to move towards acceptance
[07:24] Strategies to overcome resistance and create boundaries that serve you.
[13:15] How to use anger to fuel refinement and healing to become the best version of yourself
[15:59] Letting anger out and achieving balance to attain peace and serenity
[18:15] How to empower yourselves towards a healthy grieving process
[20:53] Moving out of your comfort zone and creating your space to neutralize anger
[25:41] Understanding your resistance and opening the door to the possibilities of calmness and joy
[28:03] Karen journey and the inspiration behind her passion
Notable Quotes:● “Anger is an important and vital emotion for us yet when we stuck it with denial or depression it no longer serves us”- Karen McMahon
● “There one thing that you have an incredible amount of power over and that you”- Karen McMahon
● “Anger is a signal and an opportunity for growth and connection” - Host Marty Wolner
● “When we learn to grieve well over small losses, we get a better opportunity to move through different emotions when something big like divorce comes”- Karen McMahon
● “Possibilities lie on the other side of your comfort zone and moving out of your comfort zone is the most liberating thing” - Karen McMahon
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Linkedin: Karen McMahon
Forgiveness - Special Guest - Motivational Speaker Andrea Mason talks about the Power of Forgiveness as a Healthy Anger Tool
Global Motivational Speaker and Personal Accountability Coach Andrea Mason (andreamasons.com) talks about the Power of Forgiveness as a Healthy Anger Tool. We talk about the healing benefits of forgiving yourself, as well as others. Changing to more positive thinking patterns helps the healing process and forgiveness can change thinking patterns.
Forgiveness is a powerful tool in any realm of success, be it be relationships, families, or workplaces, but it’s often understated. Forgiveness is not forgetting but letting go, and when we forgive, we not only learn from the lesson and but also forgive ourselves. Join me in this power-packed episode as we discuss forgiveness with Andrea Mason, the founder of Andreamasons.com. Andrea is a social worker, motivational speaker, and personal coach, and her mission is to help people achieve personal freedom through forgiveness.
Andrea was born in Columbia during the cartel, and her parent had to give her up for adoption to give her a better life in America. As she grew up, she struggled with abandonment and fitting in a culture that bullied her due to her unique physical and emotional features. This tolled her true identity, career, and relationships, and to thrive; she had to forgive. In her new life, Andrea has been assisting people from all walks of life to overcome their fears and create the best version of themselves through the power of healing and forgiveness.
In This Episode, You Will Learn About:
[01:22] The value of forgiveness
[02:50] Andreas backstory and journey to forgiveness
[06:01] Recognizing our emotions and advocating for ourselves through awareness
[09:35] Understanding trauma behaviors and supporting others to healing
[14:36] How to help people use prior experience to create a stronger future
[18:09] Building your resilience to overcome adversity
[21:17] How to change your belief system and rewire from toxic experiences
[27:30] The science behind trauma and how it connects with our current behaviors
[31:21] How to move from decision to emotional forgiveness to let go of negative emotions
[35:30] How to forgive an individual in your inner circle who has hurts you
[44:22] Andreas’ organization, their vision, and how they help people overcome their barriers through forgiveness
[46:17] How to connect with Andrea
Notable Quotes“Our past will continuously chase us until we phase it.” - Andrea Mason
“We are the only creature that doesn’t learn immediately from our mistakes.” - Andrea Mason
“When we become vulnerable, we become aware, not weak.” Andrea Mason
“They may not agree with you but reverse that energy to fuel yourself to deliver the message differently.” Andrea Mason
“When we reflect what we have gone through, this releases the champion and warrior in us.”- Andrea Mason
“Focusing on toxic energy will consume you, find some positivity and start your journey to forgiveness and healing.”- Andrea Mason
Mindfulness - Special Guest - Mindfulness Trainer Kelsey Mazeski - Reduce Your Stress with Daily Mindfulness
From the 2021 Work from Home Self Care Conference, Mindfulness Trainer Kelsey Mazeski talks about reducing your stress using simple meditation and mindfulness techniques with simple daily routine activities. It starts with mindful morning routines (and the night before as well), mindful listening and becoming a mindful single-tasker for more focus and productivity. Multi-tasking is a myth! Focus your attention through short mediative and mindful practices.
Take these simple Healthy Anger Tools to the beach
it's summer and hopefully you'll get to take some time for yourself. Don't forget to pack your Healthy Anger Tools. Whether you're going to the beach, park, lake or camping, you can make the choice to enjoy yourself more and feel closer to your family and friends. Self care is important and expressing your anger in healthier ways will help you feel more relaxed and feel happier.
How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids
When the emotion builds up as you get angry and you begin to run out of patience, do you find yourself yelling at your kids? That can seem really scary to them and you may feel bad after. There's a much better way to help your kids learn to be more responsible, respectful and accountable. Be assertive rather than aggressive.
Just Counting to 10 Will Make You Angrier
Will counting to 10 calm you down? Will it help you reduce your anger and choose a healthier anger response? Unfortunately, probably not. Not as a calming strategy by itself. In fact, only counting to 10 as a calming strategy will probably make you angrier.
How to Help Your Brain on Anger
What's happening for you in your head when you get angry? It can be beneficial to understand how your brain and body respond during an angry moment. You can be empowered with tools to meet your needs and the needs of others when you become angry.
The #1 Cause of Your Anger (and Metacognition)
What's the #1 cause of your anger? The primary cause of your anger is your thoughts! The lifespan of an emotional charge to your brain and body is only about 90 seconds. It's your thoughts that fuel your anger. Thinking about your thinking is called metacognition. HealthyAngerToolbox.com