What Is Your Name For Anger?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet....

William Shakespear

Anger is a difficult emotion, and one of which many people are afraid. I find in my work that most people are hesitant to use the words “angry” or “mad” to describe their feelings. They use substitute words or slang expressions to describe how they feel; thereby avoiding the word “angry”. This creates a situation where their feelings are being mislabeled.

I cannot stress enough the importance of properly identifying your emotions in the moment. As I said in an earlier article, we have feelings for a reason. They are clues to tell us how we are responding to a situation, and how we need to act so that we can take care of ourselves. The action you take when you feel angry needs to be different from when you ar