How to handle difficult emotions - with Dr. Anna Colton
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English - June 10, 2022 10:30 - 45 minutes - 82.9 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture Health & Fitness Mental Health #health #happiness #advice #behaviorchange #psychology #behaviourchange #resilience #connection #inspiration #lifestyle Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We also discuss the subtlety of understanding our mental health and emotions. Giving in too much can actually lead to a dangerous negative spiral, but how it’s equally damaging to ignore our distress or negative feeling feelings or not have any support in processing them. Psychology, the brain and behaviour are incredibly nuanced. Anna explains how being able to name our emotions and have a broad vocabulary for them can be surprisingly effective. She for example took it upon herself to find an array of words for anger (which by the way it’s OK to feel, just not to act on – another nuance we chat about) which you can find below. Anna also explains how critical it is to build our own personal toolkit so that we have the right tools for different emotional responses in different contexts.
Dr Anna Colton, is a chartered clinical psychologist and executive coach, specialising in the Adolescence, Eating disorders, the Bar, elite performance and stage fright.
In addition to her adolescent, coaching and legal practices, Dr Anna has worked with the leads and casts of many West End shows, is the psychologist on Matilda the musical and consults to many other theatre companies. She also works with TV companies to ensure the psychological safety of participants in their shows.
She can often be seen or heard on the TV and radio discussing a range of mental health and well-being topics.
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Anna’s list of angry words are below:
Angry
Annoyed
Affronted
Agitated
Antagonised
Bitter
Cantankerous
Cross
Chafed
Convulsed
Choked
Choleric
Churlish
Crotchety
Disagreeable
Displeased
Enraged
Exasperated
Furious
Fuming
Ferocious
Fiery
Fractious
Fretful
Galled
Grumpy
Grouchy
Huffy
Hacked off
Hot
Heated
Impatient
Incensed
Incandescent
Indignant
Ill-humoured
Ill-tempered
Irritable
Irate
Irritated
Irascible
Inflamed
Infuriated
Ireful
Irked
Livid
Mad
Maddened
Miffed
Narked
Narkey
Nettled
Outraged
Offended
Peeved
Petulant
Pissed
Pissed off
Piqued
Provoked
Put out
Raging
Ranting
Ratty
Raving
Resentful
Riled
Sore
Splenic
Snappy
Storming
Sullen
Sulky
Stewing
Tetchy
Testy
Turbulent
Terrifying
Tumult
Wrathful
Vexed