Your husband chews too loud and you have to leave the room. The cashier is slow and you feel actual murder in your hands. A song on the radio makes you cry for fifteen minutes in the car. You apologize to your kids for snapping and an hour later snap again. You scare yourself with how much fury lives in you now.
This is the rage room. The room nobody warns you about because nobody wants to admit they have one.
Hormone fluctuation directly affects serotonin, dopamine, and GABA — the chemicals that regulate your mood. The feelings are real, but the volume knob is broken. You are not a bad person. You are not failing. You are running on a chemistry that has changed without your permission.
What lives in the rage room with you. For the nervous system that needs putting down.
The thick kind. For floor breathing, stretching, or just lying flat when the world is too much.
See yoga matsAn amino acid that takes the edge off without making you sleepy. 200mg as needed for the spike.
Find L-theanineThree pages, every morning. The Julia Cameron technique. Catches the rage before it lands on someone you love.
See journalsSometimes you don't need a solution. You need the chewing to stop.
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