Anger

[caressa]

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.
--Maggie Scarf

Anger can multiply our difficulties in many situations. All of us can look back and remember times when we only made our problems worse because we stepped on the gas and lost all ability to use the brakes.

You are reading from the book: Wisdom to Know by Anonymous

Have had this experience lately, was determined to stand up for my rights and what I believed in. After reading this, I am thinking "How Important Is It?" It is important for my sobriety but it can't come from a place of anger. It has to come from a place of peace within myself.

It isn't about Stepping on the break and stopping or stepping on the gas pedal and going full speed, it is about 'steady as you go and know your own truth."

When I come from a place of anger it is danger. Not only to my sobriety but to my peace of mind and sense of self. I allowed it to undermine my self-confidence and thinking if three people see this, is it true. That is the scary part that the three people could be right. I was not willing to accept that. they say I haven't done the Steps and that I am not an Alcoholic. They say that my outside issues delute my program. If this is true, then to my reasoning, I should just go out and drink. Nope, anger is not healthy.

[majestyjo]

Like the last line of this, needed the reminder.

[majestyjo]

When I processed the anger I had when I quit smoking, anger covered up a lot of other feels that anger had covered up. Under the anger was sadness, rejection, abandonment, and other emotions that cigarettes covered up. i never realized how much they blocked my emotions. i had been in recovery for 7 years.