40: Anger: Our Innate Tool for Empowered Creative Life #AngerGetsABadRap

How can you harness the energy of anger to LOVE YOURSELF and feel confident?

We have been conditioned (and sometimes by experience) to believe that anger is a bad thing or that it is destructive.

While it can turn ugly, let’s get back to Anger’s TRUE intentions: to show us our deeper desires, to protect us, and to give us the embodied knowledge that we are powerful, capable and creative.

Anger gets a bad rap!

We need to reclaim it so we can truly heal and know ourselves, to be back in alignment with our ease and truth.

In this Episode, we explore:

• The messages we get about anger and what stops us from expressing
• The depression, numbness, lack of confidence, shame, physical illnesses and other symptoms that happen when we repress our anger
• Global and community repercussions of not claiming our own anger
• How to work with your own anger to discharge the energy, use it intentionally and constructively
• Respecting the power of anger and it’s true desires: to protect our creative freedom, safety, and where we need to grow

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Show Notes

0:00 Intro

1:19 Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons

2:42 Disclaimer about Anger

4:06 Connected to the Commitment & Conviction Episode

4:41 My experience

5:41 Story about Anger

11:46 Reflection

12:43 Anger Charged – but not expressed

14:06 What is Anger?

15:29 Energy of Anger – Physiologically

16:12 The Amazing Thing about Anger

16:39 Observations in the Animal World – How Anger is Used

17:03 Let Anger Inform Us

17:12 Anger = Divine Creativity / Energetic Channels that Anger Functions Through

19:50 Anger & Depression

21:00 We can reclaim our Power!

22:42 The Destruction of Holding Anger Inside

22:57 Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing

24:07 Groups and Repressed Anger

25:09 Anger in Groups – Tavistock Model

25:30 In Family Systems & Constellations

26:21 Shadow Work

26:52 Terror Zones & Areas of Peace – Displaced Anger?

27:56 Being Dependent on others taking their share

28:46 Anger = Red Energy by Maggie Kline

29:32 Messages I’ve received about Anger

31:17 Just because you dismiss it doesn’t make it go away

31:58 It can be Gendered

32:39 Anger unexpressed – Even When Who you’re angry with is not in the room

33:18 Ideas why Anger seems so threatening

36:04 Has Been Paired with Aggression or Violence

37:05 Anger and Shame

37:39 Anger and Abandonment

38:00 “Anger is Childish”

39:16 Abandoning Children or Ourselves when we are Angry

39:33 Videos of Parent staying with Child through tantrums

40:11 Anger can be destructive, of course!

40:56 Alternative Ways to Understand and Use Anger

41:32 Working with Anger in a Loving Relationship

42:13 Anger with a Stranger that’s attacking you

42:57 Anger Energy Release (completing fight responses)

44:25 Working with a Trained Trauma-Informed Professional

45:27 Suggestion – look for professional that’s attuned to developmental dynamics

46:13 When Working with Anger – It can get overwhelming

48:11 What to do with Anger / How to work with it

49:34 Some Basic Tips when working with Anger

51:24 Tangible Tips to work with Anger

51:57 Recommendation: Pendulation and Resourcing First

55:59 Rage Rooms

56:28 Controversy – Turning to Rage and Violence?

57:58 In working through Anger, take off the social-appropriate-ness-lense

59:10 Let’s make it fun!

1:00:23 This Week’s Experientials

1:01:14 Outro

1:02:44 The Embody Podcast – More

1:02:56 The Embody Community