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Anger Is A Choice

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           Anger is an emotion we all experience. My spiritual and secular study, as well as my own life experience, has taught me of the reality of the fact that anger is not considered a primary emotion or instinctive response. It is a choice.  Many people, myself included, have at one time or another felt that anger is a primary emotion as it is the first response we have to negative things that happen to us. Everybody feels anger at different times, to varying degrees. Indeed, this opinion is so common in modern society that new programs are created in anger management, and articles written on the upsides of anger.     In his blog entitled “Anger Problems: A Smokescreen for Fear-Shame Phobia” posted in January 2009, Dr. Stosny broadly depicts anger problems as "a smokescreen for fear-shame phobia." The problem of anger is of vital importance not only in our daily emotional life, but in the genesis of most mental disorders, violence, spiritual development, and creat

My Message to New Students at BYU Pathway Worldwide

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I just can't believe that my husband Anatolin and I just finished the Fall 2019 Semester at PathwayConnect Worldwide with an "A". Personally, I enrolled in the BYU PathwayConnect  Program because I want to become a more delightful wife to my husband and an exemplary mother to my four home-schooled children who grow up way too fast. A delightful woman should be developing the sacred qualities that God has given His daughters to excel as a wife and mother: patience, kindliness, a love of children, and a desire to care for them.  She should be acquiring a good education to keep with the demands of motherhood. President Russel M. Nelson taught, “We need women who are organized and women who can organize. We need women with executive ability who can plan and direct and administer; women who can teach, women who can speak out. ... We need women with the gift of discernment who can view the trends in the world and detect those that, however popular, are shallow or dange