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 expressingThe depression, numbness, lack of confidence, shame, physical illnesses and other symptoms that happen when we repress our angerGlobal and community repercussions of not claiming our own angerHow to work with your own anger to discharge the energy, use it intentionally and constructivelyRespecting the power of anger and it’s true desires: to protect our creative freedom, safety, and where we need to growCheck 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. Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode📝 https://CandiceWu.com/anger Podcast Homepage🎧 https://candicewu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community💌 https://candicewu.com/embody-communityDonations – Your Support Means So Much!💝 https://candicewu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook👫 https:///EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by My Personal Healing Immersions and RetreatsIf the Embody Podcast, my writing, or guided healing meditations have inspired you, helped, or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you would show your support through a small donation.Each creation is lovingly made from my soul and takes anywhere from weeks to a few days to develop and produce. I gladly pay an editor who supports me in polishing and creating high quality content.As little as $1 a month would nourish my podcast and other creations to continue to have life and cover costs. Plus you’ll receive some sweet personalized healing gifts from me that can deepen your embodiment on your own journey.Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am so appreciative.Visit my Support Page at CandiceWu.com/support Show Notes0:00 Intro1:19 Sponsored by YOU, my Patrons2:42 Disclaimer about Anger4:06 Connected to the Commitment & Conviction Episode4:41 My experience5:41 Story about Anger11:46 Reflection12:43 Anger Charged – but not expressed14:06 What is Anger?15:29 Energy of Anger – Physiologically16:12 The Amazing Thing about Anger16:39 Observations in the Animal World – How Anger is Used17:03 Let Anger Inform Us17:12 Anger = Divine Creativity / Energetic Channels that Anger Functions Through19:50 Anger & Depression21:00 We can reclaim our Power!22:42 The Destruction of Holding Anger Inside22:57 Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing24:07 Groups and Repressed Anger25:09 Anger in Groups – Tavistock Model25:30 In Family Systems & Constellations26:21 Shadow Work26:52 Terror Zones & Areas of Peace – Displaced Anger?27:56 Being Dependent on others taking their share28:46 Anger = Red Energy by Maggie Kline29:32 Messages I’ve received about Anger31:17 Just because you dismiss it doesn’t make it go away31:58 It can be Gendered32:39 Anger unexpressed – Even When Who you’re angry with is not in the room33:18 Ideas why Anger seems so threatening36:04 Has Been Paired with Aggression or Violence37:05 Anger and Shame37:39 Anger and Abandonment38:00 “Anger is Childish”39:16 Abandoning Children or Ourselves when we are Angry39:33 Videos of Parent staying with Child through tantrums40:11 Anger can be destructive, of course!40:56 Alternative Ways to Understand and Use Anger41:32 Working with Anger in a Loving Relationship42:13 Anger with a Stranger that’s attacking you42:57 Anger Energy Release (completing fight responses)44:25 Working with a Trained Trauma-Informed Professional45:27 Suggestion – look for professional that’s attuned to developmental dynamics46:13 When Working with Anger – It can get overwhelming48:11 What to do with Anger / How to work with it49:34 Some Basic Tips when working with Anger51:24 Tangible Tips to work with Anger51:57 Recommendation: Pendulation and Resourcing First55:59 Rage Rooms56:28 Controversy – Turning to Rage and Violence?57:58 In working through Anger, take off the social-appropriate-ness-lense59:10 Let’s make it fun!1:00:23 This Week’s Experientials1:01:14 Outro1:02:44 The Embody Podcast – More1:02:56 The Embody Community