Harnessing Anger: Transforming Rage into Insight

The Dr. Leaf Show

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess.
0:09.1	Today we're going to talk about anger.
0:12.4	Anger is such a complex emotion. Today we're going to talk about anger.
0:13.0	Anger is such a complex emotion.
0:15.5	It can be helpful but can also be harmful.
0:18.5	It can be chaotic or it can serve a purpose when we learn how to manage and harness it.
0:24.0	The key here is frequency.
0:27.0	One or two occasional outposts won't cripple you,
0:30.0	and may probably even be necessary at times depending on the circumstances.
0:35.2	It's the frequency over time that we have to watch out for.
0:39.0	So in today's podcast I'm going to explain what anger is, what it does, how do you recognize when you've got a pattern of angry outburst and some tips on how to turn negative anger into positive anger and make it work for you.
0:51.6	Just a quick note, if you're hearing this, you are currently not on the Neurocycle
0:55.9	app and will only be hearing the first half of this conversation.
0:59.5	In order to hear the full episode, you will need to subscribe to the Neurocycle app where you can listen to
1:04.2	full episodes in the NeuroLife section and you can listen and watch Ad Free on the Neurocycle
1:10.0	App. The link in details will be in the show notes. Let's dive into how to manage anger.
1:15.0	Anger, such a complex emotion.
1:21.0	It can harm us, it can hurt us, it can make us feel chaotic, it can serve
1:27.0	a purpose, depending on how you harness it and how you manage it. And that's what I'm going to talk about today. How to understand anger, what it does to you,
1:36.7	and some tips on how we can make angle work for us and not against us.
1:40.9	The first thing you need to understand was anger though is that it's an emotion as we know
1:45.1	anger's an emotion, it's a complex emotion and managing it is to understand what an emotion is,
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