As seen on Geraldo Rivera and other natial TV programs, Dr. Shoshanna introduces new effective methods to reducing stress and anger in one's life, and to replace it with health and joy.

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Product Description

Road rage, school shootings, workplace violence, domestic abuse, drug addiction, and even the national obesity epidemic are manifestations of an overarching problem gripping our society: anger. Other books about anger are on the market, but this is the first and only "diet" from anger: a practical, step-by-step 30-day program designed to help readers cleanse their lives of the toxic effects of anger. As Dr. Shoshanna points out, "It is one thing to have an intellectual understanding of what is harmful. It is something else to know how to actually get rid of anger in your life." The Anger Diet is the book that bridges the gap between intellectual understanding and practical action. The practical actions correspond to the 24 forms of anger, many of which are hidden; each form is identified and addressed in its own chapter. Each day readers are asked to give up one form of anger and are given a replacement for it. One chapter per day, one day at a time, readers will learn how to loosen anger's hold on their lives and gain greater happiness, health, and peace. "I just finished reading "The Anger Diet." Wow! Dr. Deepak Chopra once told me that he thought the single most common and direct cause of illness was anger. If this is true, Dr. Brenda Shoshanna has got to be one of the great world class healers of all time. In her book, "The Anger Diet," not only does she present the most complete and compelling description of the many forms of anger, but she also tells you how to treat each of them. If you suffer from any form of anger, and who among us does not, then you must read "The Anger Diet." It's a life changing experience." (R. Winn Henderson, M.D., Host of the International Radio Show "Share Your Mission" and author or co-author of 24 books, including national best-seller "The Ultimate Secret To Happiness".)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409014 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780740754920
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Dr. Shoshanna is a psychologist and a longtime Zen practitioner whose previous books include Zen and the Art of Falling in Love, Zen Miracles, Why Men Leave, and What He Can't Tell You. A frequent media guest on national television, she is the relationship expert on iVillage.com and an instructor on BarnesandNobleUniversity.com. She lives in the New York City area.

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Customer Reviews

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.

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.