The Anger Myth: Understanding and Overcoming the Mental Habits that Steal Your Joy is a step-by-step guide to help readers address their anger in all its forms for a happier, healthier, and more productive life. Whether it manifests as incessant complaining, jealousy, disappointment, impatience, frustration, resentment, or annoyance, anger lies. It brings destruction, stealing time, money, creativity, and joy. Anger has a profound emotional cost. It prevents people from living the life they really want. The Anger Myth confronts the problem of treating anger as a valid emotion. It exposes the faults and uselessness of this dangerous approach, offering readers a proven strategy to address and control anger and all its manifestations from their lives. It lays out the financial and emotional costs of anger and provides techniques, strategies, and real-life case studies to reframe and redefine triggering events, acknowledge underlying pain and turn the reactions into productive and constructive actions. The Anger Myth will transform readers from rigid to resilient; from egocentric to empathetic; from limited to creative; and from indifferent to joyful. Building on the tradition of bestsellers such as Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Anger Myth will change the way people approach anger in today's overheated cultural climate.
Trish Ahjel Roberts is a Transformational Coach, Inspirational Speaker, and Soul-Healing Retreat Leader. She is the founder of the Mind-Blowing Happiness (TM) coaching company and the Black Vegan Life (TM) event brand. She is the author of the acclaimed self-help memoir, Thinking Outside the Chrysalis: A Black Woman's Guide to Spreading Her Wings and the #1 Amazon bestseller, 12 Steps to Mind-Blowing Happiness which was endorsed by Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, and Iyanla Vanzant. In them, she teaches her proprietary 12-step path to a life of deep joy and fulfillment. She is a certified life coach, registered yoga and meditation instructor, and reiki practitioner with over a decade of Buddhist study. She has been featured on CBS46-TV in Atlanta, WBLS-FM New York, and many other media platforms. She also hosts her own Mind-Blowing Happiness (TM) Podcast. Trish was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, she spends her time between Atlanta, GA and Tampa, FL. When she's not writing, speaking, or leading retreats, you can find her on the hiking trail, at the beach, in the yoga studio, or curled up on the sofa with her dog, Cooper.
Get rid of anger in all its forms for a happier, healthier, wealthier, and more productive life.
I met Trish Ahjel Roberts in 2021 when we worked together on her previous book, 12 Steps to Mind-Blowing Happiness, and I'm so impressed with her work. Picking up where that book left off, The Anger Myth highlights the perils of anger and offers creative and powerful solutions. With compelling stories and deep wisdom, Trish presents life-changing lessons on managing negative emotions. Given all the fear and unhappiness in the world today, The Anger Myth should be on every bookshelf. -- Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author, Happy For No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul I have known Trish since she first started her Black Vegan Life(R) group on Meetup back in 2014. She would bring a bunch of folks to my vegan cooking class in Atlanta just about every month. She always sat in the front and asked questions, clearly curious and wanting to learn. It's such a pleasure seeing her spread her wisdom in The Anger Myth. She has taken so many different wisdom philosophies to create her 5-step Tame and Reframe technique to transform anger. She incorporates breathwork from yoga, philosophy from Buddhism, compassion from veganism, positive psychology, habit theory, and more. The Anger Myth is chock full of powerful information and techniques to make your life more peaceful and purposeful. -- Neeta Sanders, co-founder of Soul2Soul Educare in Atlanta, GA The Anger Myth is a transformative program that equips individuals with effective strategies to manage their emotional states and take control of their lives. Through the Tame and Reframe method, Trish breaks down a practical five-step approach to transforming negative emotions. With The Anger Myth, individuals can experience breakthroughs in their emotional and mental well-being, as they learn to overcome negative thought patterns and cultivate a more positive and empowered mindset. -- Michelle Young, CEO of My Vinyasa Practice in Austin, TX The Anger Myth is a refreshing guide on how you can remove anger from your life. We all just need a little courage to start the process. If you are looking to evolve to a happier and more peaceful life, The Anger Myth is for you! -- Natasha Brewley (Chef Beee), MBA, PhD, HHC, owner of Essentially Chef Beee and Nyansapo Wellness Institute, Inc. I met Trish at a mastermind with my business partner in 2021. She stood out of the pack with her desire to help people grow and her passion for her work. The Anger Myth is a balm in a chaotic world. Trish teaches the reader how to transform negative emotions like anger, jealousy, and frustration into peace and positive action through her brand of mindset-shifting techniques. Everyone can benefit from reading The Anger Myth and incorporating the 5-step Tame and Reframe technique into their lives. -- Patty Aubery, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Permission Granted and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul (R)? brand I've known Trish for years as part of her Black Vegan Life(R) community. The Anger Myth teaches you how to develop empathy as part of her 5-step Tame and Reframe method to alleviate anger and increase happiness. Trish goes even further by explaining the difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion, so you can move from "feeling bad" to "doing good." The Anger Myth will help you relieve the frustration, worry, and guilt that weigh you down while giving you ideas and education to lift you up, including information about a cruelty-free lifestyle. -- Christopher Eubanks, Founder and CEO, Apex Advocacy To Thich Nh?t H?nh's Anger: Cooling the Flames, we must add Trish Ahjel Roberts' The Anger Myth to the list of Buddhist-inspired books addressing this most destructive of human emotions. The title of Roberts' book reveals the first, most important truth about anger that most people not only don't understand, but misunderstand-anger is 100% destructive by nature; it has no redeeming qualities. After establishing that perspective, with the assistance of the Buddhist teacher we share, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Roberts launches into her five-step process for addressing and diminishing one's anger. For someone like myself, who constantly struggles with violent reactions to injustice, expanding one's toolkit for grappling with this ruinous mental action is a welcome balm in an oft-times ugly world. -- Paul B. Chen, Publisher, Natural Awakenings Atlanta
