Therapy Uncomplicated: The Blog

In the last post, we explored the idea of how anger protects us from danger and yucky emotions—feelings we learned to dislike since childhood. We also know anger starts physiologically as bodily sensations. In our last discussion about anger, we talked about how our body instinctively wants to release anger. Nervous System Instincts A lot of our feelings and behaviors are set responses, and the experience of anger and aggression is often part of a bigger process of how we i

In the last post, we covered the whys of anger – the reasons anger exists, its protective function, and the purposes it serves. As we dive deeper into the different aspects of anger, I want you, our reader, to become curious about how this content applies to your personal experience, and notice what stories, emotions, and feelings this brings up for you. *** The Difference between Anger and Aggression: A few years ago, I was working with a client who never seemed to be able t