Strategies to Pull Yourself Out of a Bad Mood

How to take control of your emotions when things aren’t going your way

Cindy Lamothe
Forge
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6 min readMar 28, 2019

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The incident that ruined my day happened early in the morning: I was in my car and inadvertently cut off another driver, who then zoomed up next to me and yelled, “Idiot!” outside my window before hastily driving off. Frustrated, I yelled something nasty back, even…

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Cindy Lamothe
Forge
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