Dr. Robert Puff's Articles

Maximizing the Positive at Work
This article is about how to deal with a negative work situation: Should you stay? Should you leave? The article emphasizes that work situations are actually personal choices.
Strategies for Managing Relationships
This article discusses some forms of verbal abuse and how to manage it if you are the victim.
Taking Stock of Our Personal Relationships
This article is about making good choices of people with whom we choose to surround ourselves. Positive individuals enhance our lives while negative ones detract from it.
The Benefits of Doing Anger Work
This article discusses how Anger Work can change your life for the better. You can break out of the cycle of dysfunction inherited from your nuclear family, but you must be willing to put in the effort.
How to Love Your Children Unconditionally
This article not only says you should 'love your children unconditionally,' but it also gives specific advice on how to do that.
Anger Work Through Screaming
This article discusses how screaming can be very effective in Anger Work.
'Keepers' and 'Tossers'
This article describes the healthy way to pick and choose the people we spend the most time with.
The Side Effects Of What You Listen To
This article discusses how what we listen to has an impact on our well-being.
Inspirational Stories of Living in the Moment
This article describes two women and many children who inspire us to strive to live in the moment.
How to Implement 'Time-Out' with Younger Children
This article explains the reasons and methods for implementing time-out with young children.
Safe Anger Release While Driving
This article discusses different ways of expressing anger in your car.
Anger Work through Hitting, Shooting, and Throwing Things
This article discusses ways of doing Anger Work through hitting, shooting, and throwing objects without hurting yourself, another person, or valuables.
The Karma of Hurting Others
This article explains how abusive people, often victims themselves, have an even more difficult time being healed in therapy than do their victims.
The Harm in Hurting Others
This article describes how the perpetrator of harm or violence may have a more difficult time in healing and success in therapy than does the victim.
Overcoming Depression by Experiencing True Sadness and Using Anger Work
This article is about how true sadness heals. The danger, however, is that sadness can quickly lead to depression. True sadness and Anger Work are what are needed to heal trauma.
Avoiding Your Feelings through Non-chemical Addictions
This article discusses addictions other than the ones people usually think of. These addictions prevent us from experiencing our true negative feelings so that we can heal.
Four Lessons from Children Concerning Anger Management
This article describes how the two basic emotions-anger and sadness--that children use to heal can be understood as lessons for adults who are doing Anger Work.
Raising Healthy Children
This article focuses on how important it is to spend quality time with your children. Spending time and talking with your children is crucial to their emotional healthy and well being. Be active and involved with your kids, it matters!
How To Express Your Anger And Still Be Kind
This article explains the nature of anger work, what the term means, and what kinds of people could benefit from it. It will only focus on the first type of angry person, the one who is visibly angry.
Art and Creative Visualization as Forms of Anger Management
This article describes how patients can use both art and as well as creative visualization as 'Anger Work' for self-healing.

Dr. Robert Puff's Articles