Anger, I was told was a very bad thing. I was taught that only those who had not fully given themselves to God, had it! Sadly, for quite a bit of my life, I carried so much guilt and shame around that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What I’ve since learned is:<\/p>\n
Anger isn’t a waste of energy; it isn’t worthless; it isn’t bad or negative; it simply<\/em> is…<\/p>\n We are alright to get angry…to allow ourselves to feel<\/em> anger. Anger is an emotion.<\/p>\n It is our action\/choices when angry that can be negative. May we not cause ourselves, or others, harm.<\/p>\n Anger is valid. Anger serves a purpose: it typically highlights something that needs our attention.<\/p>\n Find healthy ways for your mind, body, heart to process anger: therapy, spiritual guidance, a support group…<\/p>\n Almost always, anger is a secondary emotion.<\/p>\n Find out what’s behind that anger. Is it hurt, sadness, disappointment, fear…childhood trauma?<\/p>\n Take time to process and talk through the anger. You’re not alone in it. We’re on this journey together: processing, learning, growing – on the daily.<\/p>\n Common Day Hero:<\/span><\/strong><\/em> You are faithful in the small things. Even when life threw so much negative your way, you remained steady, especially in faith. Grateful for your words of truth always. Sharonda, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anger, I was told was a very bad thing. I was taught that only those who had not fully given themselves to God, had it! Sadly, for quite a bit of my life, I carried so much guilt and shame around that.\u00a0 What I’ve since learned is: Anger isn’t a waste of energy; it isn’t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,232,8],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anger","tag-emotions","tag-selfcare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/annie-spratt-tyayair6xHo-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}