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What's Underneath Anger

Anger is almost always second

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Anger is almost always second. Under it: hurt, fear, shame, powerlessness. The soft emotion is the one that actually needs care.

The recent anger episode
What I felt in the 30 seconds before I got angry
If it wasn't anger, what would it have been?
What that softer emotion actually needed

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Conceptual background and further reading, not validation of this handout. Named instruments and methods belong to their original authors; custom prompts and trackers are not validated versions of those instruments.

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