Dr. Tony Fiore
How to Deal With Difficult People Part 2 - The Bully
Sixty-four year old Bill was a married retired executive who sought anger management help on the insistence of his wife Ann. After 24 years Ann could no longer tolerate his bullying behavior toward her, their children, and their friends.
Date Posted: November 26, 2005
4 Steps to Being More Assertive
45 year old Judy revealed in an anger management class that she was constantly angry at her husband. When asked why, she revealed that her aged mother lives next door and she always felt conflicted whether to spend time with her husband or her...
Date Posted: September 18, 2005
4 Steps to Teaching Your Family to Treat You Better
Case #1- Elizabeth, a 40 year old homemaker was always feeling angry and used by her family, constantly saying that everybody took advantage of her.
Date Posted: August 27, 2005
5 Steps to Stress-Guard Your Family
Part 1: Recognize the importance of family stress management Joe and Emily live in Southern California with their three young children. Both work and must commute 2 hours daily on busy freeways, often not getting home until 7:30 PM, exhausted and...
Date Posted: April 20, 2005
Three Tips to Forgiveness: A Key Factor in Anger Management
Elizabeth, 32, cried during anger management class as she told how one year ago - her 19-month-old girl was permanently brain-damaged as the result of a medical error at the hospital in which she was delivered.Elizabeth had a legitimate grievance...
Date Posted: February 16, 2005
Learn to Responding Rather than Reacting To Anger
Think of your brain as a juke box where most of your records your reactions to different situations were recorded well before your reached adolescence.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005
Change Your Inner Conversations to Control Your Anger
Every Holiday season Vicki found herself angry and silently seething at her older sister, Susie, and mother as they were merrily chatting about Susies successful life.Thanksgiving was no exception.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005
5 Steps to Adjusting Your Expectations
Dateline: January 4th. Orange County Anger Management class participants review anger triggers of the week.Jane, age 23, engaged to be married: My boyfriend openly flirts with other women in front of me.Jim, age 40, an IT professional:...
Date Posted: January 20, 2005
4 Steps to Assertive Communication
Dr. Fiore, my 42 year old married patient (Mary) began, once again my family expects me to host Christmas dinner and I am simply too exhausted; what should I do? Why not tell them how you feel? I asked.
Date Posted: January 20, 2005
How Empathy Can Reduce Your Anger
Jim, a 42-year old engineer was teaching his eight-year-old son how to fly a radio-controlled airplane. As the airplane was taking off, Jim instructed his son to push the control stick on the radio to the right.
Date Posted: September 22, 2004