Coaching practices for How Do I Deal with Holding Onto Anger and Resentment

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• The same old grievance keeps surfacing on its own
• I thought I’d let it go, and then weeks later the old anger floods back out of nowhere
• I keep telling myself to just move past what they did and not make a big deal of it, so I never actually look the hurt in the face
• I believe I have to let the anger out
• There’s one person I keep replaying with a knot of resentment, and they’re living rent-free in my body even when they’re nowhere near me

Practices that may help

1. Memory cleaning (releasing the past)
   Identify a grievance you are still carrying and practice releasing it rather than replaying it.
   Ho'oponopono: Hawaiian Forgiveness and Reconciliation
2. H — Hold on when the hurt comes back
   When resentment returns, don’t take it as proof you failed — recall your commitment and re-choose.
   Forgiveness: The REACH Model
3. R — Recall the hurt
   Face what happened deliberately and calmly, without minimizing it or replaying it as a victim.
   Forgiveness: The REACH Model
4. Soften when anger says attack
   When unjustified anger urges attack, gently avoid, withdraw, or take the other person’s side a little.
   Opposite Action: Acting Against the Emotion’s Urge
5. Loving-kindness toward a difficult person
   Deliberately offer goodwill to someone you struggle with, to loosen resentment’s grip on you.
   Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation
6. E — Empathize with the offender
   Try to understand the pressures, fears, or story behind what they did — without excusing it.
   Forgiveness: The REACH Model
7. Work the difficult-person stage without forcing
   Extend metta to a difficult person not as approval of their actions but as unconditional goodwill for their wellbeing.
   Metta Bhavana: The Practice of Loving-Kindness
8. Map your anger triggers
   Build a personal inventory of the situations, people, and thoughts that reliably ignite your anger.
   Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical
9. Mindful awareness of suffering
   Hold painful feelings in balanced awareness — neither suppressing them nor being swept away by them.
   Self-Compassion, Made Practical
10. Graduated anger inoculation (stress inoculation exposure)
    Practice coping with anger in imagination — from mild triggers to intense ones — before you face them live.
    Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical

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