Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,

welcome back.

I've been thinking about Anger a lot recently.

Anger is one of the most complex, demanding, and difficult emotions that we deal with on

a regular basis, and I think that this comes down to the fact that two things both seem

clearly true to me.

The first is that Anger comes with many costs, cost to our bodies, our relationships,

and then so many costs out in the world.

And then the second thing that's true is that there's a vital energy associated with

anger that is extremely powerful and when harnessed can be immensely useful.

It's a mobilizing force both in our own lives and then socially.

And I think that it's because both of these aspects are so apparent that anger is a

bit challenging to talk about sometimes, and we get a lot of questions related to this

emotional experience.

And people argue about the relative value of anger a lot more than they do for related

emotions like happiness or sadness, fear, whatever else people experience.

So today we're going to be exploring anger, particularly how we can relate to it in

general, and then focusing on how we can use the positive aspects of it without being

used by the more problematic aspects.

So to help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical

psychologist, a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

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