Project last updated: April 7, 2025

Kourtney Kovanis is the Director of Content at Tendo Communications, a content and UX agency. She’s the mom of a super energetic toddler and super lethargic senior dog. 

Get in touch: kourtney.kovanis@gmail.com

Kayleen Schreiber is an information design consultant and science communicator. But most of her time is spent as chauffeur, butler, and chef to two young children.

Get in touch: kayleen.e.schreiber@gmail.com

In putting together this project, Kourtney and Kayleen met several times with a group of like-minded ladies to discuss mom rage, irritability, general frustrations…but also how helpful it is to discuss marriage, family, life struggles with a group that is both encouraging and genuine. We worked together on the anger tracker for two weeks, exposing our more vulnerable moments for the sake of data and insights into whether there were commonalities to our anger outbursts. We learned a lot from each other and grew closer as friends and sisters in Christ.

Videos

• Dopamine: The Thrill and the Lie
• How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children
• Kids (And Employees) Know More Than You Think
• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Articles

• Hey, Did I Tell You?
• Mother Rage: Theory and Practice
• On Pessimism
• The Dark Side of Anger: What Every Couple Should Know
• The Effects of Anxiety and Depression on Your Physical Health
• The Lost Daughter Understands That Womanhood Is Profoundly Complicated
• The Mother Trap: “Mom Rage” reviewed
• The Perpetual Rage of Motherhood

Sermons

• Love Is Not Provoked: Agape Love Series, Part 8

Podcasts

• A Bit of Optimism
• Good Inside
• Unlocking Us

Apps

• Bible Project
• School of Life

Books

• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
• How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2–7
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Never Get Angry Again: The Foolproof Way to Stay Calm and in Control in Any Conversation or Situation
• No More Anger: Hope for the Out-of-Control Mom 
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
• Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction
• She’s Gonna Blow! Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger
• Shift: Managing Your Emotions​​—So They Don’t Manage You
• Well Said: Choosing Words that Speak Life, Give Grace, and Strengthen Your Faith and Family

Studies

• Correlates of Canadian mothers’ anger during the postpartum period: a cross-sectional survey
• The Importance of Emotional Regulation in Mental Health