Reacting to another person’s anger hands them the steering wheel of your nervous system. When we react, the amygdala fires, survival takes over, and our capacity for choice, empathy, and perspective goes offline. That is not strength. That is biology running the show. Bottling anger up through passivity does not work, and exploding through aggression does not work either. Both keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode. What actually helps is learning to express anger intentionally and with