If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of feeling like things are simply out of control, fasten your seatbelt belt. This is one of those things in life where it’s not a matter of “if” it will happen, but more of “when” it will happen. We are only human.

We can only take so much before an emotional response is invoked when life, and all its intricacies, reaches a tipping point. There are two primary ways we tend to deal with an extremely chaotic situation or circumstance – lash out in anger or cry with frustration.

A good many of us have superior control over angry outbursts and disallow this type of behavior. Instead, we might be so extremely frustrated the only way we can deal is to just break down and cry it out. Then there are those of us who allow anger to rear its ugly head and take control of our mind and body, come what may. Continue reading →

Everyone experiences episodes of anger throughout their lives. The problem is not the anger itself but how each person decides to deal with it. The very real issue is in accepting that we can decide, that we indeed have choices. Anger is a natural emotion, but our reactions and responses are our choices, whether we like to admit it or not.

Many of us decide to suppress the emotion because we believe that talking about what may be bothering us shows a sign of weakness. Let’s face it, nobody wants to come off as being weak or unable to deal with issues. So we bury the issue at hand deep within instead of identifying the thing which makes us upset. This approach is doing more harm than good.

When we bury things and don’t deal with them, they tend to come back up and usually not in a good way. People, in general, like to put things off or have the ‘I will get to it later’ attitude. Continue reading →