Anger and Stress Management Tips for Satisfying Relationships
Have you been the one to take care of family when others bailed out or abandoned you?
Are you the one that keeps family members together at the expense of your own life?
Perhaps you felt righteous, strong and saintly doing what needed to be done when everyone else behaved irresponsibly.
But you built up anger and resentment that grew inside you like a cancer, destroying the authentic part of you that the freedom to have your own life without feeling that you too abandoned your family.
Over time the anger turns to rage, and the rage burns you. It makes you want to inflict on your family members what you went through.
Suppressed anger makes you exhausted, stressed and unable to concentrate on your work or your routine tasks.
Buried anger affects your sleep and your eating patterns.
You can no longer live trapped and almost strangled to death by the anger that you have stored up against your family members you use you, abuse your sense of responsibility and take advantage of your saintliness.
You have avoided expressing the anger hoping that your family members will see your sacrifice and do the right thing. But nothing happens and you are left with a rage that is vengeful and punitive.
This video tells the story of one young girl, on the brink of adulthood feeling trapped by her care taker role but enraged with her family members to the point of running away in order to make them value and acknowledge her heroic contributions. I tell how I helped her express her anger, and recognize that the entire family had massive negative emotions that all needed to be aired and understood so that the family could function in a healthier way.
You too can do it. Watch and begin your journey to freedom.
copyright, Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D. 2014
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Disclaimer: this video is for informational and educative purposes only. Dr. Raymond is not responsible for any reactions you may have when reading the content or using the suggestions therein. Interacting with this material does not constitute a therapeutic relationship with Dr. Jeanette Raymond
