Dealing with Anger and Emotional Constipation — Alyson and Tripp Lanier

If you’re angry, is it better to bottle it up or lash out in retaliation?

Do you get stuck in a loop thinking of things you should say to that jerk who pissed you off?

And how is emotional constipation draining our aliveness and motivation?

In this conversation, Alyson and I discuss the problems that arise with anger. For many, we feel stuck — if we say something with anger it might make the situation worse. But if we bottle it up, we become a toxic balloon that could burst at any moment. So today we explore what really drives our anger in hopes that we can find a more productive way to deal with it.

In this conversation:

  • Dealing with emotional constipation
  • What’s really causing our anger
  • Feeling stuck because we don’t know what to do with anger
  • That danger of bottling up our emotions
  • Metal and aggressive music

Plus:

  • Can anger be expressed in a healthy way?
  • The difference between anger and aggression
  • Rumination
  • Learning to see our assumptions
  • Why it’s not okay for your partner to be mean just because she’s a woman

About Tripp Lanier

Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.

Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.

If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.

About Alyson Lanier

Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.

If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.com