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My 5 favorite tools for processing anger
Let it out, don’t hide it
Happy Sunday, Soothers. I’m sure like many, if not most of you, I was furious, dismayed, terrified at the overturn of Roe vs. Wade. Horrible implications aside, this gave me a chance to think about how learning to better process our emotions is such an important part of being able to release, get grounded, and move forward in community with activism, solidarity and organization to keep building the world that many of us envision.
This isn’t easy to do with anger, in particular. I don’t know about you, but my anger is probably my most complicated, feared, scary, shameful emotion. I am angry like, all the time. I have been angry most of my life. I have had every right to feel this anger. Yet, I hid it. Yet, I suppressed it. Yet, I was shamed by others for it. So I shoved it down.
Never again.
Highly sensitive women can struggle to allow expression of anger. It can seem dangerous; it feels intense; we may have learned as a child it wasn’t safe or “proper” to express it.
But as sovereign adults, we must learn that anger is a righteous and important emotion. Suppressing it hurts our hearts and our health. Energy, and emotions, are meant to move through us. Our bodies are the physical vessel meant to express these visitors: through screaming, crying…
