{"id":7536,"date":"2016-02-18T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:35:08","slug":"anger-management-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/anger-management-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger Management for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may not have been my first rageaholic episode, but I have a cringe-worthy memory of verbally ripping my sister up one side and down the other in anger when I was in college.<\/p>\n

Her crime? She locked my keys in the car.<\/p>\n

I could not contain the barrage of ugly words that came pouring out of me.<\/p>\n

I said choice things like, \u201cHow could you be so stupid? What were you thinking? Obviously you weren\u2019t! What an IDIOT you are!\u201d<\/p>\n

I went on and on in a shrill voice–all in front of my roommate.<\/p>\n

I could not stop myself from berating her. It gave me a release that seemed impossible to deny.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to convey the utter horror of the bully that I was.<\/p>\n

Raging was a regular occurrence for me for over a decade. Managing that anger was impossible as far as I could tell.<\/p>\n

I picked on unlucky store clerks, bank tellers and customer service reps.<\/p>\n

But most of all, I raged at my husband, whose response was to suffer through my episodes by saying very little and escaping as soon as he could.<\/p>\n

I always felt tremendous shame and remorse afterward. But that didn\u2019t help me when the urge arose the next time. And the next, and the next–hundreds of times.<\/p>\n

But I no longer feel that urge. I haven\u2019t had a Godzilla episode in over 17 years. I don\u2019t miss them. At all.<\/p>\n

The cure for my anger was a byproduct of my journey to fix another problem: My broken marriage.<\/p>

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I\u2019m not the only one\u2014my clients and coaches also report that their anger subsided and they regained their dignity when they adopted these simple practices:<\/p>\n

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