Anger doesn’t live in your words.
It lives in your body.
In your chest.
In your jaw.
In your racing heart and clenched fists and breath that forgets how to be steady.
And when it explodes?
It feels powerful.
Like release.
Like control reclaimed.
But afterward—
there’s always a cost.
What most people don’t realize is this:
Your body takes hours—sometimes days—to come back from anger.
Your nervous system floods with adrenaline.
Your heart rate rises.
Your digestion slows.
Your brain shifts into survival mode.
And even after the argument ends…
even after the apology…
your body’s still holding it.
That tightness?
That mental fatigue?
That crash you can’t explain?
That’s the cost.
Anger doesn’t just pass through.
It imprints.
And the more it happens,
the longer your recovery time becomes—physically and emotionally.
But here’s the good news:
awareness is the first reset.
I started noticing what my body did when anger showed up.
The signs. The slope.
And then, I started interrupting it:
- A breath before reacting
- A walk before responding
- A glass of water instead of a slam of words
I’m not perfect.
But I recover faster now—because I don’t ignore the ripple.
Anger speaks loud.
But your body whispers the aftermath.
Start listening.
That’s the Cushy way.
