Yep. It’s you.
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You can stop being a powerless complainer and start actively taking control over your own life. Complainers continuously fuss about a situation without doing something to solve the problem. You might love complaining in the moment, but people aren’t going to love listening to you over time.
Complaining might feel good in the moment but it isn’t great for your health. It raises your cortisol levels, increases anxiety, makes you feel stressed or depressed.
Besting What Annoys You
- Discover your triggers. Figure out what sparks your inner complainer.
- Interrupt the pattern of habitual and unconscious complaining. Do you complain as small talk or have gripe sessions with a certain group of people? Determine how to have the relationships you want without the complaining.
- Recognize it’s a lifelong habit. The world will give you plenty of frustrations. Build your own personal, emotional resilience so you can recover more quickly when things go off the rails.
- Complaints often stand in for other emotions. Think about what is prompting those complaints.
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About ten years ago, documentary film maker and author Cianna P. Stewart reached a breaking point when she realized that she was complaining all the time. Over the decade that followed she moved from being a powerless passive complainer to actively taking control over her life and getting more out of all aspects of it along the way. For several years, she’s been running workshops in “Going NoCo” where she helps people learn the skills needed to successfully change their own pattern of complaining.