The Anger Diet: Thirty Days to Stress-Free Living

by Brenda Shoshanna

Book Overview

"Shoshanna extends an empty and richly filled hand, offering both the sublime and the practical," "Publishers Weekly" once noted of Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D. Now Shoshanna unites the sublime and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740754920
• ISBN13: 9780740754920
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent read

I wandered in life wondering what was wrong with me. About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with depression, not knowing that after reading only 1/2 this book, I found out that the root of my depression was anger. I have been looking for the tools for many years, but never able to find them until I bought this book. I have applied a few of the exercises to my every day life and they have made a phenomenal change in my world. Well worth reading if you're looking for those unanswered questions that noone has been able to answer.

It Worked for Me!

As I worked through all the manifestations of anger, some of which are quite original but accurate, I fought acceptance of each one; however, I did the exercises and spent much more than a day on each one - at least a month because anger is a real problem for me. Not until I approached the end of the book did I realize how full of hate I had been in the past because I had poorly processed past emotional injuries. By the end of the book, as I became increasingly skilled at processing past negative experiences, I realized that anger and hatred had been replaced by compassion and love for all.

Absolutely the best.

I have been buying books on 'anger' for a while. This one really helped me. I have read it over and over and did the exercises. She is so absolutely clear about all the ways anger expresses itself, illustrates it with easy 'real-life'examples, and then gives you all kinds of exercises and tasks. I am very grateful to have found this book. Very enlightening, but also very practical.

One Diet Everyone SHOULD Be On!

MARIE JONES, Book Reviewer, BOOKIDEAS.COM: Forget food-based diets and think "stress-reduction" as the real way to a healthy, happy life. Psychologist and therapist Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D. knows that a very important diet has been long overlooked and her book aims to set the record straight. "The Anger Diet" is a 30-day plan to help reduce stress and get to the root causes of anger. Why is anger so important to deal with? Because, as the author states, it's a powerful toxin with the ability to affect every aspect of health, and well-being. Anger often goes hand in hand with overwhelming stress, depression, social anxiety, eating disorders, rage and even suicide, and if we don't deal with WHY we are angry, we very well may not be able to control WHEN we are angry, or the damage anger does to our bodies, inside and out. Using her experience in private practice for more than 25 years, Shoshanna presents the twenty-four forms of anger and how they express their presence in your life. She also talks about how some forms of anger, say suspicion, can escalate into more extreme forms, say paranoia. Each chapter presents tools and exercises you can use to identify the anger and what initially caused it, then work to replace it with more positive, empowering emotions. The idea behind "The Anger Diet" is to free the body of the toxic diseases of anger, rage, resentment, depression and even boredom and take the steps to make the changes necessary for a happier, less stressful life. I found the information in this book to be comprehensive and useful, and I learned so much about my own battles with various forms of anger, many of it related to things that happened during childhood. Because the author is a therapist, she has a wonderful ability to treat the reader like a respected patient, and the tone is never condescending. She also presents plenty of personal cases of patients she worked with and how they overcame the anger issues in their own lives. This is one diet that will leave you empowered as it works to help free you of the habits, addictions and reactions that are associated with anger. Stress is crippling our society and anger is right there at the top of so much of our emotional stress nowadays, and until we treat the cause, we cannot ever hope to rid ourselves of the symptoms. "The Anger Diet" is highly recommended for anyone who wants to lose the weight of emotional negativity, disharmony and distress. And you don't even have to give up chocolate!

A Life Changing Experience

I never knew that it could be so easy to get rid of all my anger. Its been chewing me up inside. It relieved my stress and depression, the exercises were very effective and user-friendly. Dr. Shoshanna's writing is straightforward and easy to understand. Thank you Dr. Shoshanna. I recommend this to everbody.