Making Peace with Anger

Understand what your anger is really trying to tell you and why it shows up the way it does. You'll learn to express it clearly, use it productively, and stop letting it damage the things you care about.

Making Peace with Anger journey overview: day list and Start Journey CTA
Day 1 opening lesson: Making Peace with Anger
Day 1 journal prompt with a written response
Day 1 Takeaway slide
Day 1 Tomorrow-preview slide with the Complete Day button
Day one complete! — next-step options after finishing the day

What you'll actually take away

Clearer language for what's been hard to name. A record, in your own words, of how your thinking shifts across the 7 days. And a practice you can keep returning to — the journey gets you started, your own journal keeps the work alive after.

Ideas you can actually use

You'll learn what your anger is actually trying to tell you (usually a boundary crossed, a need unmet, a grief unnamed), why it shows up the way it does, and how to express it without damaging what you care about. Drawing on Harriet Lerner's 'The Dance of Anger,' Gabor Maté's work on suppressed emotion, and research on anger as a secondary emotion. Not anger management. Anger literacy.

A Making Peace with Anger lesson slide on the journey's core approach.
A Making Peace with Anger prompt paired with a written response.

Where real change happens

Every day pairs short lessons with two to four journal prompts designed to pull the ideas into your own life. Writing is where research becomes change. Your entries are protected by zero-knowledge encryption, readable only by you, never by us. Be honest without a filter.

A space that keeps growing with you

The journey gets you started. After that, KindMind becomes a place you can keep returning to: an encrypted journal for working things out, guided reflections when you're stuck, daily check-ins to notice what's shifting, and lists for the messy middle of life. Stay as long as it helps.

A KindMind tool — journal entries, reflections, or check-ins — that pairs with the journey.
Garrett and Lindsay at the coast during sunset
Garrett and Lindsay under a willow tree
Garrett and Lindsay with champagne by the ocean
Garrett with his dog
Garrett and a friend zip lining in the trees
Garrett and a friend zip lining selfie
Lindsay kissing Garrett on a boat
Garrett in a leather jacket

Many of these photos co-star my wife, Lindsay.

12 years in, just getting started

I'm Garrett. Meditator, surfer, and software engineer based out of Oregon. I've been making KindMind since 2014, on a mission to help people understand their own minds and treat them a little kinder. Twelve years in, still indie, still personal, still all in. Read the story.

Making Peace with Anger, day by day

7 short daily sessions. Self-paced. Pause and pick back up anytime.

  1. Day 1Anger Is Information
  2. Day 2What Your Anger Is Protecting
  3. Day 3When Anger Is Old Anger
  4. Day 4Your Anger Signature
  5. Day 5From Exploding to Expressing
  6. Day 6Anger That Serves You
  7. Day 7A Different Relationship with Anger

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