Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
Tara Brach
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Narayan's Memory Matches Mine
In bringing up Narayan, one of my biggest values was truth telling and I wasn't a super punishing mom like barely at all. So it wasn't really hard for him. You know, he was actually quite honest except once and he was nine or ten I don't remember but he and a friend stole some snacks from a snack bar at a swim club. When I confronted him he said, oh somebody's lying, it was just to make him look bad. In other words, he denied it. And I was filled with a rage unlike I was very unfamiliar with that level of rage. We both took a time out. During mine, I have no idea what he did during his
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