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Letting Go of Anger: The Eleven Most Common Anger Styles & What to Do About Them

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I was pleased to find out about this book from a review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It categorizes anger into anger styles and tells what to do about them. A quiz with 30 yes or no questions helps you figure out your style.
Many of us have learned unhealthy ways to deal with our own anger or that of others. The book advises letting go of our anger, and to clearly express our wants and needs. Don't just vent your anger, channel it to make needed changes. Maybe it's road rage or seething over an injustice or whatever triggers your anger, you don't want to lose control and let the anger rule you.

I read this book in 2 days. It was amazing and I highly recommend it for anyone 15 and older. The content is succint, thorough, and insightful. It addresses many types of anger and provides you with cues to when you might blow your temper and how to control rage. Then it will cover issues like hate and resentment found in people who bury their frustrations over time and how they start to resent someone becuase they are not releasing that anger. This book is excellent and my comments are trivial compared to the insights. Pick it up and you will be surprised. It is the one anger book I would recommend out of the numerous choices available.

Enjoy and learn!

On the advice of a friend, and during a particularly stressful period of my life, I read "Letting Go of Anger: The 11 Most Common Anger Styles..." I found it helpful to be able to identify what I was feeling and what to do to make me not feel that way any more. Since being angry (afraid?) is proven to have an effect on a persons overall health, I found this book to be very helpful in returning me to a homeostatic place. I have already loaned my copy of "Letting Go..." to another friend. This author has other helpful books on the same subject out there. I highly recommend them all.

I found the book very helpful. It's always nice to be able to read something and say that you see yourself in it. Makes you realize that you're not the only one and that there is hope. After reading this, I have decided that I'm going to follow some of the suggestions and see if I can learn to change my anger problems.

I just started reading this book and already I'm impressed with the tools for understanding my own Anger Style. I'm currently reading about typical reasons for my Anger Styles & then will move on to self-management techniques. I knew I carried around a lot of Anger from childhood traumas, but until you recognize how your body processes frustration it cannot control, you don't know how to manage your anger or prevent it from getting out of control. I was tired of being at the mercy of my own emotions and this book has helped me to understand myself better. I always avoided dealing with the anger thinking fixing all the other things in my life would magically make it better. But that hasn't worked. So, starting from square one again, I downloaded the Kindle version of this book. Am very impressed! Highly recommend it from anyone who feels Angry most of the time or has overwhelming, hot flashes or rage. This helps you understand & work with your body, rather than resisting the critical messages that Angry Feelings are telling you.

This book is more Dr. Phil-ish then Dr. Freud. It came across to me as a typical "think positive" and all will be well book. To be fair, after I read thru the first few chapters I only breezed over the rest of it. To say "anger is a gift", and then say it causes alot of trouble in our lives, is a simply ridiculous, thoughtless statement. This book will work well for Dr. Phil or Oprah fans who (unknowingly) only use these mediums for a temporary escape from their problems. Once the show is over or reading the book complete it's quickly back to the reality until the next fix.

The book was recommended by our counselor for the step children. It is an easy read and is broken up by chapters. Each chapter is a different type of anger.