Lessons Learned: How to Work through Rage
I get angry sometimes. Sometimes that anger turns into rage. For two weeks, I walked around seething and feeling disconnected, lost, and well, lonely. Those big feelings are hard to articulate and it's a challenge for me to feel someone's compassion in those moments. No response is ever really good enough, and I need time to work through it. Seriously, I'm a moody middle schooler forever.
With lots of journaling, friend time, conflict, and alone time I feel my body is beginning to recover from the physical toll rage can take on your body. I'm on that other side of the rage and took some time to journal about the strategies that got me through. I'll be here again, next time I'm hoping it takes a little less time to work through it.
- Reset: It’s never too late to start over. Rethink your strategy. Change your approach. Everyone gets a second chance in your world, you deserve one, too.
Connect through the work. Bring people into the core of the work you inhabit for most of your days. Invite them into the big ideas sketched in your notebooks.
Start earlier and give yourself time to settle into the space before others arrive. Fill the building with your energy.
Eat lunch somewhere other than your desk.
Drink a beer after work. More than one if you’re with a good friend who will love you even after your tongue gets slippery.
Work through the anger and don’t let yourself bury it. Let it simmer and then let it boil into your creativity until it spills into the work. It’ll be messy, but oh so delicious and rich. Your passion lives in the mess.
Paint your nails the color of the sun.
Enjoy a pastry slowly and without a deadline.