
09/02/2025
How often do we clench our jaws to avoid opening our mouths and letting truth come out?
How often do we bite our own tongue to avoid biting through the lies and harm around us?
How often do we swallow the acid of our bile, our words, to avoid causing someone else pain?
How much pain do we cause ourselves by repressing our anger and turning the fight in toward our bodies?
I'm not saying that screaming, biting, projecting or spewing out our anger is how we want to handle this emotion. But our bodies might have those impulses, and working against those impulses takes a lot of energy.
What if we could work with the impulses in a way that feels skillful and aligned? What if we could not just 'manage' our anger but actually leverage it with sustainable skill?
Anger has wisdom, there is medicine in it - it tells us what needs to change. When we bring awareness to that with presence and compassion, this is a powerful force. I believe we need folks to come into healthy relationship with anger right now. We need people who can say No, this is not ok. We need people who can stay with anger long enough to get clear on right action, to show up with love, & to do what their souls are asking them to do.
Have you ever really heard your own voice? Have you heard from the inside that something needed to be expressed, & then heard the power of it outside of you?
In this photo, my body told me it wanted to be witnessed in a scream. To hear myself & to be heard. No one made me do this. It wasn't for a staged experience that someone else guided. And it wasn't even about catharsis & trying to 'get my anger out'. This was about embodied, wild power.
Screaming can be a lot. It isn't something I typically recommend through somatic trauma healing, especially not in the beginning. You don't have to force this. It's not necessary for 'release' in the way you might think.
What's really powerful is going slow, staying with your body, & hearing your own knowing. The real relief and transformation come when you feel all the resistance in your body, give love to the protective patterns, & let it feel safe enough to follow your own voice.
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