Anger management self help is the name of the game in a new book by Spike Gillespie. She writes about being pissed off and encouraging women to let out their rage without feeling guilty. Actually, she assures us it’s healthy.
How often have you held in your anger because of social convention, because you’re not sure how to express it, because you’re afraid of the consequences, or because of a variety of other reasons?
Women, in particular, are reputed to keep their anger to themselves; women with eating disorders are even more thought to ignore it. But this suppression inevitably leads to unannounced outbursts that are surprisingly out-of-character for most.
Spike Gillespie writes about such rage in her fabulous memoir, "Pissed Off: On Women and Anger," which is like anger management self help. With witty, straightforward and intelligent writing, she manages to entertain while still providing a positive message to women: anger is only destructive if you allow it to consume you. By telling her own experiences with rage-ful outbursts, she infuses much humor into her tales.
If you struggle with holding in your own anger, this is a real treat in how to let it out as it surfaces. It also holds as a cautionary tale on what happens when you don’t. Rather than exploding at a situation a week later by taking it out on someone else, learn to see anger as an emotion that gives us a pretty clear idea of how we’re feeling.
Find the book at AMAZON.
