The Soul's Work Podcast
The Soul's Work Podcast is the show about uncovering our authentic selves through doing both light work and shadow work. Host Janice Ho shares her life experiences and resources on topics such as healing from trauma and addiction, connecting with our intuition, navigating our relationships, and more. This podcast is not meant to give professional advice, but to share personal experiences and help others feel less alone in their own journeys.
The Soul's Work Podcast
Fearing and Befriending Anger
This episode is all about anger! How many of us come to fear, and then disown, this core emotion. And the ways we adapt to our uneasy relationship with anger, including avoiding conflict, people-pleasing, and being passive-aggressive.
Janice talks about her own experiences repressing her anger for many years, and why she had come to see anger as a threatening emotion that had to be sent to the corner of her internal world.
She shares about the therapy work (Internal Family Systems Therapy) she did to befriend her anger, and how it helped her to better clarify her needs and set boundaries.
Janice also discusses the importance of looking past the individual/family situation to understand how our broader cultural, social and political environment influences how comfortable we feel with our anger and that of others (or not).
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- The Soul's Work Blog: "Letting Anger Come Out of the Corner"
- Dr. Jennifer Mullan: @decolonizingtherapy (IG) / Decolonizing Therapy
- Jordan Pickell: @jordanpickellcounselling
- Susan McConnell: Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Laurence Heller & Aline LaPierre: Healing Developmental Trauma
- Prentis Hemphill: What It Takes To Heal (my apologies, I called Prentis' book "How to Heal" in the episode!)
- Arturo Baiocchi (thesocietypages.org): "The Racialization of Mental Illness"
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DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for working with a professional mental health or healing practitioner.