The Gift of Anger

Seven Steps to Uncover the Meaning of Anger and Gain Awareness, True Strength, and Peace

by Marcia Cannon, Ph.D., MFT

About The Gift of Anger

The Gift of Anger radically redefines anger as a positive emotion designed to bring you into deep connection with yourself. You’ll learn the true cause of your anger and how the very factors that elicit anger can themselves be used to help you heal from your experience and empower you to move beyond it.

You’ll discover how to:

• Dissolve your shame or fear of anger by defining this powerful emotion in a way that makes it safe and valuable.
   
• Turn any level of anger, from mild irritation to rage, into self-awareness, self-appreciation, and self-trust.
   
• Strengthen your ability to handle life’s surprises.
   
• Reduce your emotional pain and sadness and move more deeply into a state of personal and interpersonal peace.
   
• Forgive yourself and others so you can truly move beyond the negative experiences of your past.

In individual chapters, you’ll examine each step of a 7-step, research-based process for working with anger. You will gain detailed information about how and why each of the steps works so well, and read stories of others who have used the gift-of-anger process so you can see each of its 7 steps in action. Then, you can use the exercises at the end of each chapter to help you explore, understand, and make healing and strengthening use of your own anger.

Use your anger as the positive force it was meant to be, and your increased understanding and more confident sense of well-being will affect both you and those around you in ways that you may find as surprising as they are gratifying. That is the power of anger properly used. It can be your power. Just open your gift and you’ll see.