Anger – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

We all have a breaking point

We all seem to have a breaking point, no matter how strong and levelheaded we think we are. We may promise and convince ourselves that we won’t go there and one day, much to our surprise, we crack and lose our cool. Exactly what happened to me the other day. I thought I had lost my […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Choosing sadness over anger

We often rebel against sadness by becoming angry. Being angry entitles us to blame someone else for our misfortunes, while sadness allows us to accept and take responsibility for our feelings and ourselves. Acknowledging that we are sad about something helps us understand ourselves and our situation better and the tendency to blame is lessened. Anger […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

How I became chill

I’m chill, says my eldest niece. I don’t get angry or too excited. I agree, but it didn’t use to be this way. It’s taken a time to get to a place where I don’t have to control my emotions and go to extremes which, is very challenging and emotionally draining. I lost my anger at […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

How I lost my anger.

I learned the art of not becoming angry at a high price. Nothing is free and even less the lessons we learn. When we change it isn’t normally because we will ourselves to. Change comes about from either a traumatic experience or one that shatters our core so much that we are forever changed. In my […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Why we shouldn’t try to block pain.

In order to grow, learn and move on, there is no getting around pain. Pain must be experienced and felt, not avoided especially if we are going through a loss of some kind. If we don’t take the time to mourn our losses, experience them and process them, they will linger on longer and we […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Anger on the web.

If you have ever read the comments readers leave for an internet news story, a blog or even a product review, you may have noticed how angry some people are, and how rude their comments can be. What makes people lash out and in some instances be downright hateful? Has the anonymity of the internet caused us […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Never wish someone ill, except….

I’m not one to hold grudges. Treat me well and I am pretty gullible and fast to forgive. Yet, I find myself having a hard time not wishing someone ill. Honestly, right now, I wish this individual the worst.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Go ahead, allow yourself to be angry!

We live in a society were we label good feelings and bad feelings. Anger being in the “bad” list. We are not talking here about out of control or chronic anger. Just plain and simple anger we are all entitled to.