Stop Hurting the Ones You Love…Including Yourself
Individual, Couples, and Family Counseling with Dr. Lonnie Bryant
Keller, Flower Mound, Watauga, HEB, and Fort Worth, Texas
Why do we hurt the ones we love most?
We want to love and treat others with respect, but anger takes over.
It controls. Makes you do and say things you don’t mean. Things you regret.
It affects your relationships, your job, or your peace of mind.
You want to do better.
You mean to do better.
You do your best to do better.
You just don’t know how.
When you least expect it, anger consumes you.
Rage takes over, and you lose control.
When someone hurts you, cuts you off on the freeway, puts you down, or takes credit for something good you did, the anger wells up. Affects your thoughts and emotions.
You deal with frustrations all day and somehow manage to keep the lid on. You know you have to, or you could lose your job. Or cause a car accident. But then you come home and BOOM!
EXPLOSION. All over the people you love the most.
And when rage subsides, you look around at the mess you made and are filled with shame and guilt.
If you have ever had to deal with the consequences of either losing control to anger or stuffing it down, now is the time to get help. Learn more about anger management.
The Two Most Powerful Emotions:
Anger and Love
It’s hard to think of anything else when anger has a hold on you.
The same can be true for love. With anger, the “red flags” set you off. With love, you can miss them.
When your emotional bucket is filled with love, there isn’t much room for anger. For those with an emotional bucket full of anger, love has a hard time getting in.
Love is powerful enough to forgive anger. But anger is powerful enough to keep you from loving.
If love rules the day, and you are looking for premarital counseling, click here.
Anger is destroying your life.
Your peace. Your happiness. Your relationships.
It causes pain for you and those around you.
You hurt the ones you love. Belittled your children. Cursed out your spouse. Lost friends. If you haven’t been arrested, lost a job, or caused a car accident thanks to road rage, you are on your way.
Stuffing your anger can also cause serious issues.
Things seem fine at your job and at home, but you’re hurting yourself.
The anger implodes, causing bitterness, depression, addiction, or lack of self-worth. Your body responds with high blood pressure and ulcers.
While you believe stuffing your anger only causes pain for you, your emotions and behaviors affect everyone around you.
Why is it so hard to get a handle on anger? To keep it in check?
Could you be justified in your anger?
Maybe.
Anger, in and of itself, is NOT a sin.
Maybe you wonder – if anger isn’t a sin, why am I so alone? Why have I hurt so many people I care about? Why do I feel so guilty and ashamed? Why have I lost so much?
The truth is, anger isn’t the problem. The problem is what you do when you’re angry.
Learn the Healthy Way to Deal with Anger
Wouldn’t life be easier if you could just get ahold of this powerful, painful emotion?
What if you could gain control of anger rather than let it control you?
What if, instead of exploding on others or stuffing your emotions, you could learn how to drain the anger and find peace?
It is possible. I’ve been there. I get it. I know the way.
And I want to teach you how.
Hi, I’m
Dr. Lonnie Bryant.
Over 30 years ago, as a young doctoral student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, my wife was unfaithful and wanted a divorce. An unfaithful spouse can stir up a lot of pain and anger. But I had even more reasons to be angry. My entire future, career, and even degree were on the line.
Anger consumed me. Unpleasant thoughts and desires swirled through my mind. To distract myself from the pain and rage, I began to run.
While I had been a short-distance runner in college, I’d never run distances. Even though my first time around the track was difficult, I became like Forest Gump. I ran. And ran. And ran some more. I figured out how to drain the anger with each lap around the track.
Four months later, I completed a full marathon in under four hours. And in the meantime, I found peace and forgiveness.
Rather than give in to the destructive nature of anger, I learned how to constructively drain it. But it took a lot more than just running. I learned the secrets of gaining control over the extremely powerful emotion of anger.
Now I want to share those secrets with you.
Are you ready to gain control of your emotions?
There is hope. You can be transformed.
You can find peace, restoration, and joy.
You can improve relationships and become successful.
Schedule a Call
It all starts with a phone call.
If you want to stop hurting the people you love, including yourself, call (682) 365-2099 today.
Schedule your FREE 20-minute phone consultation to see if we have what it takes to journey this together.
