How to lose it less: the 3 essential skills you need to manage your anger

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today we are tackling something that doesn't get spoken about enough: anger. For mothers, it's a taboo subject - something to be swept under the carpet. But what we need to understand is that anger is a very normal reaction to stress. So what are the tools we can use to manage our feelings when anger takes over? In this episode, Zoe talks us through the in-the-moment strategies we can deploy when feeling overwhelmed by stress, and explains why we should recognise that anger can be an incredible force for change. Online workshop "Mum rage: a new way back to calm" : you'll learn all the skills and tools you need to manage your anger - https://www.motherkind.co/store/p/mum-rage-workshop Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ and gain access to a free 60 minute masterclass with Zoe - teaching the core principles of the book. This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. We are sponsored by Stoker. I am so happy you are here.
0:15.0	Thank you for pressing that little play button. Today is a solo episode with me, your host, Zoe, and this is such an
0:23.3	important episode because we are talking about something that does not get talked about enough,
0:29.3	and that is anger. And when I think about anger for us mothers, I think about two things.
0:35.5	The first is shame reduction, because anger is still a taboo, isn't it?
0:40.1	Mothers are meant to be endlessly grateful and calm and happy and everything else is to be
0:45.3	swept under the carpet. And that's just not the reality. So we need to know that anger is a normal
0:52.9	reaction to stress. And we need to know how to quickly
0:58.4	forgive ourselves and repair with ourselves and our children. And the second thing I think about
1:04.0	is tools because we are not taught how to manage our anger. I certainly wasn't. This is a new skill I've had to learn.
1:13.0	And we need two things. We need in the moment strategies and we need to look deeper our anger
1:20.5	because anger can also be an incredible force for change. And if you are thinking, huh, I hear you, I'm going to explain in the
1:31.9	episode. So in the next 20 minutes, this is going to be the best 20 minutes that you will invest
1:38.7	today because I am going to share ideas and tools that is going to help you think about your anger differently. It is going to help you respond to your anger differently. And I'm going to share ideas and tools that is going to help you think about your anger differently.
1:45.5	It is going to help you respond to your anger differently.
1:47.8	And I'm going to give you some incredible in the moment strategies to reduce that reactivity and that rage.
1:56.3	And if you really want to integrate these ideas into your day to day even more and you really want to
2:02.9	make that shift with your anger, then I'd also love to see you at my online workshop next week, Monday
2:09.8	the 21st of October, 8pm GMT. I am going to teach a whole hour based on the things I'm going to
2:16.8	show in this episode, but we are going to go even deeper. I'm going to teach a whole hour based on the things I'm going to show in this episode,
2:17.7	but we are going to go even deeper. I'm going to give you even more tools. So if you want to
2:22.1	join us live, you get to connect as well with other mothers in our mother kind community. And let me
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