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
Check out the Healing Experientials to support a completion of your anger/fight responses, feeling more ease in your body as you release the tension of the “red energy.”
This episode comes with three additional experientials which are released in the week following this podcast.
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Show Notes & Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:57 Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons
02:09 Where in the World is Candice Now?
04:15 Disclaimer about Anger
05:39 Connected to the Commitment & Conviction Episode
06:14 My experience
07:14 Story about Anger
13:19 Reflection
14:16 Anger Charged - but not expressed
15:39 What is Anger?
17:02 Energy of Anger - Physiologically
17:45 The Amazing Thing about Anger
18:12 Observations in the Animal World - How Anger is Used
18:36 Let Anger Inform us
18:45 Anger = Divine Creativity / Energetic Channels that Anger Functions Through
21:23 Anger & Depression
22:33 We can reclaim our Power!
24:15 The Destruction of Holding Anger Inside
24:30 Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing
25:40 Groups and Repressed Anger
26:42 Anger in Groups - Tavistock Model
27:03 In Family Systems & Constellations
27:54 Shadow Work
28:25 Terror Zones & Areas of Peace - Displaced Anger?
29:29 Being Dependent on others taking their share
30:19 Anger = Red Energy by Maggie Kline
31:05 Messages I’ve received about Anger
32:50 Just because you dismiss it doesn’t make it go away
33:31 It can be Gendered
34:12 Anger unexpressed - Even When Who you’re angry with is not in the room
34:51 Ideas why Anger seems so threatening
37:37 Has Been Paired with Aggression or Violence
38:38 Anger and Shame
39:12 Anger and Abandonment
39:33 “Anger is Childish”
40:49 Abandoning Children or Ourselves when we are Angry
41:06 Videos of Parent staying with Child through tantrums
41:44 Anger can be destructive, of course!
42:29 Alternative Ways to Understand and Use Anger
43:05 Working with Anger in a Loving Relationship
43:46 Anger with a Stranger that’s attacking you
44:30 Anger Energy Release (completing fight responses)
45:58 Working with a Trained Trauma-Informed Professional
47:00 Suggestion - look for professional that’s attuned to developmental dynamics
47:46 When Working with Anger - It can get overwhelming
49:44 What to do with Anger / How to work with it
51:07 Some Basic Tips when working with Anger
52:57 Tangible Tips to work with Anger
53:30 Recommendation: Pendulation and Resourcing First
57:32 Rage Rooms
58:01 Controversy - Turning to Rage and Violence?
59:31 In working through Anger, take off the social-appropriate-ness-lense
01:00:43 Let’s make it fun!
01:01:56 This Week’s Experientials
01:02:47 Outro
01:04:17 The Embody Podcast - More
01:04:29 The Embody Community
