Anger Management Tips – 5 Tips to Control Your Anger
Everyone experiences anger at some point, but for some, it can strike with far greater intensity than others. When not controlled, anger can be a destructive force on your life.
Can Anger Issues Ever Really Be Cured?
Anger management therapy can help an individual gain insight into their anger, identify triggers, and learn techniques to manage and control anger.
Recognising the Signs of Anger Issues
Anger is a secondary emotion. This means that anger arises when we shift from vulnerable primary emotions, like fear, loss, or sadness; anger is often the next response as a way to deal with the discomfort of these feelings. While this is a completely natural and instinctive response, anger can sometimes get out of hand. […]
Managing Your Anger
Once you fully comprehend the impact of uncontrolled and unresolved anger, it is clear to see how valuable anger management can be. Anger management is a process by which you learn new ways of coping with your emotions, and new skills to recognise the warning signs of anger to help you deal with angry feelings […]
Crisis Management
by Dr Sam Tan, Senior Clinical Psychologist As cliché as it may be, we will all experience emotional crises in our lives. It is an inevitable part of our lives. Emotional crises occur when life changes occur in an intensity or frequency that overwhelms our usual abilities to cope. Mood changes such as numbing, […]
Facing Our Emotions with Equanimity
Dr Sam Tan, Clinical Psychologist Centre for Human Potential One of the immediate reactions to our strong negative emotions is to reject them. We might do our best to “think positively”, to argue with ourselves, to suppress our emotions or to avoid situations that evoke these emotions in the first place. In short we try […]
Self Compassion – Acceptance of All of Yourself
by Dr Sam (Wee Hong) Tan, Clinical Psychologist Brisbane “If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.” – Dalai Lama It was 1990 in Dharmasala, at the Mind and Life Conference when Dr Sharon Salzberg (known for her work on Loving Kindness) asked the Dalai Lama about […]
10 Signs You Are Emotionally Attached to a Negative Past
10 Signs you are Emotionally Attached to a Negative Past is a book By MIKE BUNDRANT and this is his article worth re posting. I am emotionally attached to the negativity in my past. That attachment to interferes with my present day life as an adult. I remember, it was 25 years ago when I […]
Anger – Useful when appropriate
Anger can kill romance, screw up aspects of work, eat away at relationships, be used as a tool to gain more power or release pent up feelings. Anger can also be a useful way to communicate when done in an appropriate way. Men in particular often have difficulties with anger. Western societies teach men that […]
Chronic pain and how it impacts your mood and mind
Chronic pain – pain that lasts longer than 90 days after a normal recovery period for an injury or illness – affects thousands of people. Chronic pain impacts you mentally, emotionally as well as physically. It also affects the people in your life at home, at work and at play. Family, friends, peers and colleagues […]