Understanding the Roots of Anger

Understanding the Roots of Anger

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

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Understanding the Roots of Anger

This message is for you if anger feels familiar - even when you don’t want it to be.

If you experience moments where your reactions feel bigger than the situation…

If you are left afterwards with regret, shame, or the quiet thought, “Why did I do that again?”

If you know you are not an angry person, yet anger seems to take over your body at times.

You are not broken.

What you are experiencing is often a nervous system shaped by early emotional unsafety, now reacting automatically in moments of perceived threat. Anger, in this context, is not a character flaw, it is a learned survival response.

Working with Sue Leppan Transformation Coach (SLTC) supports individuals who:

• Feel trapped in reactive anger patterns
• Experience guilt and shame after emotional outbursts
• Grew up in emotionally unsafe environments
• Want to break generational cycles of anger
• Are ready to take responsibility without self-blame

This work is compassionate, structured, and grounded in neuroscience and emotional regulation.

Through this process, clients learn to:

• Understand anger as a signal, not an identity
• Regulate the nervous system instead of suppressing emotion
• Release stored emotional trauma from the body and mind
• Respond with clarity instead of reacting from survival
• Experience safety, control, and emotional freedom

The outcome is not the absence of emotion, it is the presence of choice.

Clients report:

• Fewer emotional outbursts
• Greater self-trust and confidence
• Improved relationships
• A calmer body and clearer mind
• Freedom from shame and self-judgment

Anger loses its grip when understanding replaces fear, and responsibility replaces blame.

You don’t have to live in reaction.

You can live in choice.

Understanding the Roots of Anger

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

Sue Leppan is a life, transformation and holistic wellness coach based in Sandbaai, Hermanus. Providing therapy for a range of challenges, Sue specialises in targeting and dealing with emotional trauma, self-doubt, depression, stagnation and self-centring. Whether you need help with personal issues ...

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