Recent Certification Training Big Success
The Anger Coach, in partnership with Century Anger Management, conducted a certification training class in Laguna Beach March 30 and 31st. It was our first class using our new 40-hour training model in anticipation of future state requirements for anger management training certification. Our reviews were excellent! One trainee even flew in from Taiwan to…
Quick Anger Tip 8 – Manage Your Time Better
Anger is an emotion that is often triggered by a common malady of modern life-time stress. When you think about it, you may see that time is the original equal opportunity employer. We all get the same amount of time to work with-60 minutes an hour, 24 hours per day, 168 hours per week, 8730…
Quick Anger Tip 7 – Watch Alcohol Use
Many people who are court-ordered to anger management admit that alcohol (or other substances) was involved in inappropriate expression of anger. For some people, alcohol brings out rage and irrationality. This is because it can easily pass what is called the “blood-brain” barrier and thus literally goes right to our heads. In many people this impairs judgement, lowers…
Quick Anger Tip 6 – Just Say No Sandwiched Between Yeses
Saying no can be awkward, guilt inducing, nerve racking, embarrassing, even risky to friendship and and career, says William Ury, author of a new book, The Power of Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get To Yes. Not saying no when you hold resentment can also lead to angry outbursts. To say yes…
Anger Coach Achieves BBB Reliability Seal
The Anger Coach is proud to announce that The Better Business Bureau of Southern California has awarded Dr Fiore & Associates a reliability seal. This means that the site meets internet member standards for reliability. Details by clicking here.
Quick Anger Management Tip 5 – Support Partner’s Good Fortune
Want to tighten the bond with your partner? Try emotionally joining your partner in his or her good fortunes in addition to supporting them in their disappointments and life challenges. This is based on a new study of couples in a short-term relationship reported by Dr. Steven Hendlin. “The way you respond to your partner’s…
The AngerCoach ShowEpisode 4 – Perpetual Issues
This episode is based on marital research performed by the famous Gottman Institute. According to their findings, a high rate of issues that occur in marriage and relationships are insolvable. These issues are called: “Perpetual Issues”, since many couples become gridlocked on them. Find out how to deal with these issues and how both partners…
Quick Anger Tip 4 – Change Your Self-Talk. Lessons from San Diego
In many ways, what you think is what you feel! To be less angry, challenge “automatic thinking” and replace with realistic self-talk. Case in point: Recently I had occasion to be in San Diego for a business meeting at a hotel on Mission Bay. Driving from Orange County, I missed my exit and wound up in downtown San…
Anger Coach Increasingly Influential on Web
Dr Tony Fiore announces that his company, The Anger Coach, is showing an increasing internet presence and saturation,according to recent statistics provided by Alexa.com and other search engine ranking sites. “It is gratifying to see the increase in usage of our site,” said Doctor Fiore. “Nearly 8000 new people are now visiting our site monthly,”…
Anger Tip 3 – Avoid Toxic People In Your Life
Sometimes, a trick to anger management is to avoid toxic people in your life – or at least minimize their presence or influence. You can tell if someone is toxic for you if: they have the ability to consistently trigger anger in you, when other people don’t. you don’t like who you are or who…
Is empathy important for anger management?
In a recent anger management class, a guy had a struggle understanding what empathy was and why it is important in anger management. The specific issue involved learning to listen with more openness to what was being said rather than listening defensively, or through mental “filters” which distort the message. For instance, wife says: “Our…
The AngerCoach Show Episode 3 – Retreat and think things over
We are taught that we should never go to bed mad or avoid dealing with an issue. Actually, research shows that most couples are incapable of resolving conflicts when their stress levels get too high. That is because high stress levels impair our memory, our reasoning ability, or judgment, and our perspective of things. In…
Quick Anger Tip 2 – Recognize Perpetual Problems
Marital research shows that 69% of the time in marital conflict is spent arguing about “perpetual” issues – issues that are never going to change. Trying to “solve” unsolvable problems (like character or personality differences between husband and wife) creates stress, anger, frustration and conflict. Instead, find a way to accept and live with each…
Anger Tip 1- Add Gray To Your World!
Tonight in anger management class, two new enrollees admitted they were there because they see the world as “black and white” with nothing between. “Things are either right or wrong…this way or that way,” one of the participants insisted.” “What is wrong with this concept”, I asked? More experienced class members chimed in that the…
Outwardly Expressed Anger AffectsSome Women’s Heart Arteries
In The Science Daily: “While previous studies have shown that anger and hostility, in and of themselves, can increase risk of heart disease in men, little of the research has included women. Results of a new study, conducted exclusively with female subjects, suggest that anger and hostility alone are not predictive for coronary artery disease…
Good Reviews For New Online Anger Program
The Anger Coach published its new online program in November, 2006, allowing adults and couples to learn the eight tools of anger control from the convenience of their computers. Many people across the USA (and in other countries) have now completed the 10-hour program and rate it highly, making comments such as “I wish my…
Professional Certification Training Huge Hit
The Anger Coach, in association with Century Anger Management, recently completed a very successful training at the Rescue team Ministry in Riverside, California. Participant feedback was excellent, praising our 8 tools model of anger management and our new certification program. Next live certification training will be in San Diego on Feburary 9th – 10th, 2007….
Cell Phone Use Increases Stress
From The American Institute Of Stress: “One might think that cell phones would reduce stress by facilitating contacting someone in an emergency or transmitting time urgent information but a recent study suggests otherwise. A sociology professor who followed more than 1300 people found that those who regularly used cell phones or pagers “experienced an increase…
Spousal Anger May Shorten Life
In a recent edition of “Stress Scoop”, research shows that happily married couples are healthier and live longer, possibly because they have less stress. “…a recent study showed that even if spouses usually get along well, the stress caused by a brief argument can slow healing of a surgical wound by as much as a…
Assaulted Teacher But Walks Free
Recent Article in news.com.au “A SYDNEY school student has avoided a custodial sentence for choking a female teacher in a classroom, after a court found he was deeply remorseful. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded guilty at Bidura Children’s Court to assaulting the teacher at Randwick Boys High School on…
Holiday Stress Leads to Anger
Learning to deal with stress is one of the eight tools that is needed for anger control. Learning to deal with holiday stress is even more challenging because of the time crunch around the holidays and the need to deal with relatives who might not always be exactly at the top of your Christmas list….