Do you find yourself bristling at comments during the holidays that would otherwise roll off your back? \u00a0Do you get tense or sleepless just thinking about listening to a particular person at the holiday dinner table? \u00a0Do you surprise yourself by slamming doors or snapping at loved ones over the simplest of holiday stressors?<\/p>\n
You may wonder why this angry side comes out at this supposedly joyous and peaceful time of year. \u00a0Anger is present in many people at the holidays because of old family hurts, \u00a0resentments and strains that were never healed and are now literally on their doorstep, come to spend time over presents or turkey or midnight services. \u00a0Families often seem to exist in this strange void in human nature where it is supposed to be okay to take out aggression on each other, be rude or cruel, or neglect one another’s needs, because \u201cit\u2019s family and families love each other\u201d despite normal evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n
But deep inside, it is never okay to endure poor treatment and emotional abuse, no matter who is delivering it. \u00a0So resentment and frustration build up without a means of addressing the issue and resolving the conflict. \u00a0That buildup results in the confusing outbursts of anger and feelings of pressure and irritability. \u00a0It\u2019s ok, anger is a natural way of letting us know something is wrong. \u00a0But anger can be unhealthy if left unaddressed or expressed in the wrong way. \u00a0This year, take advantage of this resource<\/a>, learn how to take a look into your anger, understand more about its origins and develop new skills and techniques for managing it.<\/p>\n Unresolved Anger can rise your stress levels as the holidays make impossible to avoid sharing the dinner tables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,39],"tags":[40,15,6,4,17,42,21,22,24,25,34,5,29,41,37,32,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-76","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dealing","7":"category-holiday-help","8":"tag-anger","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-dealing-with-a-passive-aggressive-marriage","11":"tag-definition-of-passive-aggressive-behavior","12":"tag-dread","13":"tag-emotional-abuse","14":"tag-expectations","15":"tag-family","16":"tag-family-situations","17":"tag-grinch","18":"tag-hateful-relatives","19":"tag-hidden-anger","20":"tag-relationships","21":"tag-resentment","22":"tag-snippy-comments","23":"tag-spending-time","24":"tag-time-of-year","25":"entry","26":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JT10-1e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passiveaggresive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}