The Anger Makeover: Discover Your Power to Reform Your Relationships (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988202436)

A SELF-HELP TOOL: We all get annoyed and resentful, even with people we love. What if you could give your anger a makeover? This book gently guides you to untwist those feelings and reshape them. As the brain's wakeup bell, anger is not a bad thing. Learn to use this intense, helpful energy to forge relationships that are joyful, warmhearted, and honest. Forget arguing. Highlight your passion and the values you live for. Ensure your loved ones feel safe, so your full-spectrum self can emerge. Working with eye-opening brain studies, this book lights up a fresh path. The pleasures of emotional competence are within your grasp. Launch your Anger Makeover to create a new world. - A PROFESSIONAL TOOL: The Anger-Makeover process helps transform the often-negative aspects of raw anger into a constructive resource for growth and healing. A very practical workbook that will be invaluable for anyone with anger (that's everyone), presenting an effective approach to the 'management' of anger, not through denial, repression or acting out but through looking within to find the power locked behind the emotional response. It gives us all tools that will be useful in communicating with others and in working through issues within ourselves to become authentic and true to our deepest Selves. A proven practical guide! This is a book we all need and a book that will offer helping professionals an active and proven methodology to help clients. Whether our anger spits and simmers, or whether it shoots out like a rocket, it often doesn't do anything except create more anger. Walter Polt shows us how to turn it around and use the energy for good. - Relationships dulled by resentment gleam again. Don't just hold back raw anger; redirect it to good use: bringing out your best self. The Anger Makeover reshapes knee-jerk impulses into better options.