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Hello and welcome to the therapy edit podcast with me and

psych therapist Anna Martha. I love bringing bite-sized thoughts and

conversations to support your well-being and your busy lives. Behind the scenes we are working on

bringing you a whole new series but in the meantime we have delved into the archives

and will be sharing some of our most loved nuggets, light bulb moments and powerful chats. I hope you enjoy them.

Welcome to today's episode of The Therapy Edit. Today I am responding to a request that was asked of me when I put a little

box on my Instagram and asking what you wanted me to talk about and there was another question and I say another one because I think this is a topic that comes up so often which is how do we deal with rage and like that feeling of irritability. You know when irritability that just kind of like

whether you shout whether you feel like throwing something or you do just kind of throw something across the room

whether you find yourself just wanting to fight

be it metaphorically, you know, fight with words, fight with feelings, fight physically or just wanting to run away.

Those are the feelings I want to talk about today.

What happens?

What should we do when we feel this because so often isn't it true that we can be so kind of judgmental towards ourselves and others when we see these

feelings arise and bubble out we don't like ourselves when we are feeling irritable and snappy.

We don't think well of ourselves when we are argumentative or when those emotions just come out sideways perhaps in passive aggressive

statements or actions. So what can we do about that? Now I was talking on my

social media the other day about the Coke bottle effect.

So if you watch my stories and my little reels, you will have seen me talk about this.

And I stood in my garden and I shook a can of coke didn't have a bottle I only had a can I shook it I

shook it and then I went to open it and I had the look on my face as I feared getting getting totally covered. And it did, it kind of, it erupted and it dribbled out all over, kind of down my hands. It wasn't quite the dramatic explosion I was expecting, but what I was showing in that little

illustration was that often we are getting shaken up, we are getting shaken up and our children, you know, there are things that happen at school or their

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