Keeping your cool-- when your anger is hot! by Hunt, June instant download

Keeping your cool-- when your anger is hot! by Hunt, June instant download

296 pages ; 22 cm, \"We all struggle with anger. Add a d in front of anger, and it spells danger! Unfortunately, most of us have been taught anger is always bad. So we stuff it and disguise it, mask it and medicate it, numb it and rename it. But that only fuels the fire within us...making an explosion all the more likely. Author June Hunt gives clear, compassionate counsel on this compelling topic, starting with the scriptural principles and then providing the practical steps that make change possible.\" -- Back cover, Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296), A view behind the interview -- Fanning the embers : the truth about anger and how it affects our lives. The anger bowl : the overwhelming pain of our anger ; Turning up the heat : the four intensities of anger ; Fuel for the fire : the four sources of our anger ; Ashes to ashes : the high cost of our unresolved anger ; The fire eaters : the harm of holding in our anger ; The flamethrowers : the damaging displays of our anger -- Detecting unquenchable fires : why we stay stuck in unhealthy anger patterns. Blast from the past : how childhood hurts kindle current anger ; Too hot to handle : how being defensive heats up past anger ; Fire and ice : how a controlling spirit fuels chronic anger ; Self-inflicted flames : how guilt and shame ignite harmful anger ; Fuming at the Father : how assumptions about God result in bitter anger -- Fighting fire with fire : how to use anger in healthy ways. Smoldering embers : how to extinguish the pain of unresolved anger ; Let cooler heads prevail : how to put out the flames of present anger ; Creative combustion : how to fight for right with justifiable anger ; Bomb squad basics : how to handle hotheaded people ; Quenching the coals : how to plan ahead for anger flare-ups ; The refiner's fire : how to respond to blowups by setting boundaries -- The fire extinguisher : how to \"act rather than react.\"