How to Use Mindfulness to Calm Your Anger Before It Takes Over

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Anger can easily spill into anxiety, arguments, or regret — but mindfulness offers another path. In this episode, Rosie shares simple practices you can use when you’re mad: pausing, breathing deeply, and asking what your anger is really trying to tell you, so you can respond with compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.2	Thank you. Headspace Studio. Hey friends, it's Rosie here. Welcome to Radio Headspace.
0:34.2	So the other night, Tori and I got into a fight.
0:40.5	Nothing dramatic, no screaming, no storming out.
0:46.5	Just a simmering, low-grade couples who share internet space too much kind of fight.
0:49.5	I'm trying to wind down after a long day.
0:51.2	I've got my tea.
0:53.3	I'm in my comfy clothes.
0:58.1	And I'm feeling kind of proud because I didn't work past 5 p.m. for once.
1:03.4	I'm scrolling Pinterest like a 90s teenager flipping through Adelia's catalog.
1:07.6	When ding, another reel from Tori.
1:11.0	Now listen, we all have very different Instagram energy.
1:14.4	He loves sending me reels daily.
1:19.5	Reels about dogs, reels about music, which is fine if they're short.
1:25.9	But reels that are four minutes long that never get to a point, it's a bit agitating.
1:30.4	I, on the other hand, am very picky about my digital real estate. I want short, punchy, and ideally something that makes me laugh in the first 10 seconds.
1:36.9	I've told him this, gently, lovingly, multiple times. But that night was my limit.
1:46.7	I clicked on the reel.
1:48.2	It was three minutes and 42 seconds of some guy explaining something
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