Have You Been Silenced?
In some form, at some time, we have all been silenced. We all have felt that our voice had no value, that we were invisible.
In some form, at some time, we have all been silenced. We all have felt that our voice had no value, that we were invisible.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
Fighting it doesn't work, but paradoxically, once you accept the anger, it's easier for it to pass. This, I think, is a taste of freedom.
Colleen Perry | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
The only thing we need to change about ourselves is to stop holding ourselves to unreasonable standards and begin to risk ourselves by being honest with those we love.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
Why was I angry at my fellow yogis for what their conditioning caused them to do? And, perhaps even more importantly, why be angry at myself for being frustrated?
Yahoo! News | Patricia Reaney | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
New York has overtaken Miami to be voted the U.S. city with the angriest and most aggressive drivers, according to a survey on road rage released on T...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Betty and I spoke the same language; a language of survivors who turned their personal stories into something more collective to change the world.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living
Hah. It's really quite preposterous for me to offer up a tips list on this subject. A tendency to fly off the handle is one of my most disagreeable an...
Jason Mannino | Posted 05.18.2009 | Living
While our youth silently protest violent homophobia, I implore you to take a moments to ask the tough questions: "Where in my own life do I harbor hatred, fear, anger, and what steps can I take to begin to resolve it?"
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living
Furious, angry, incensed, you name it, we're feeling it. This idea of retroactively demanding a giveback could catch on and if it does, I've got a list of other things I want to get back -- damn it.
John Marshall | Posted 04.22.2009 | Comedy
One day there will even be nostalgia for the disaster we're in right now. Someone will sell credit default swap lunch boxes and make a movie about the fall of AIG starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Natalia Rose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living
Typically, once you detoxify your relationship with yourself, you will be able to elevate your other relationships with ease.
Karen Salmansohn | Posted 02.24.2009 | Living
Having trouble with a colleague, paramour, parent, sibling, friend - imaginary friend? Here are eight quick constructive criticism tips which work acr...
Natalia Rose | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Anger is the desire to protect. It is not some dark, evil emotion that we should shun. Yet, when we suppress it, anger waits for an opportunity to express itself out of its original context.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Some will say "No Name-Calling Week" is more accurately called "PC Police Week." After all, an offensive term over the dinner table might be applauded in a rap song.
Keely Field | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
I was one of the thousands of purple ticket holders who survived "The Tunnel of Doom on 3rd Street," as it's known to those of us who suffered through the most disappointing day of our lives.
Helen Benedict | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living
I have a very hard time being criticized, corrected, or accused - even of the smallest mistakes - and I react very angrily. I've wrestled this instinc...
Laurie Nadel | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living
These days, most of us feel some resentment towards something or someone: the economy, the President, employers, all the usual suspects. You may even feel angry at God for not intervening.
Michael Sigman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living
The agitated mind, if allowed to fully run its course without suppression of any thought or emotion, may simply exhaust itself and give up, revealing an underlying, more equanimous state.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
I have worked in theaters, as a cab driver, in small companies, large corporations and mega-watt global behemoths, and they are all the same. They are people working for a living.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The level of anger nearly always rises in the closing weeks of a national election. Elections are hard fought. But this year, the financial crisis is adding a whole new level.
Grande Lum | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
Each reaction to a difficult person is a learning opportunity. If rage overwhelms you, then you can learn to control rage. If fear paralyzes you, then you can learn how to gain safety from that fear.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...
John Morton | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living
Anger goes with the human condition. It's a misunderstanding to think we're not supposed to have anger. Anger goes with the territory of being human...
Robert Greenwald | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
"I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interes...
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living