I'm Jody Moore and this is Better Than Happy Episode 253, Anger Not Required.

Welcome to Better Than Happy. I'm your host Jody Moore. I'm a mother to four children.

I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan and I'm a master certified life coach.

I'm here to teach you how to manage your brain and manage your emotions so that you can

create a life that's even better than happy. Are you ready? Let's go.

Hello my friends. How are we doing today? Are you ready for podcast time? I am.

My family's all gone out onto the boat. We have a boat and my husband's like, hey,

let's take the boat out on the lake. It's still following social distancing but we can get out

of the house and I said that sounds like a beautiful idea honey except I kind of have some work

I want to get caught up on. It's only May 5th so even though it's a beautiful lovely day,

it's not going to be super hot out on the lake. We're certainly not going to be getting in the lake.

So I opted to stay home and my sweet husband took all the kids out to the lake. Isn't that like a

dream come true to just be at home alone for a minute? I love my family and I love having them

here but it is nice to have a minute alone and I thought this might be a great time to record

my podcast. So here we go. Today we're going to talk about why anger is not required and some

specific situations in which anger is not required. So here's the thing. There are certain things

that we do in life that many of us, especially myself anyway, kind of just think that you have to

be mad to do, right? There are a handful of things that it seems natural, normal, just the way you do

it to get mad when you do that thing. And today I want to tell you that it turns out you don't have

to be mad to do these things. Now it's okay to be mad, okay? I'm not telling you you need to feel

badly if you get mad in these situations and I also am not suggesting that I never get mad

or that you should never get mad. But I just love knowing that there is another option even in these

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