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My daughter was in preschool, was building castles every morning with flocks and ribbons,

and there was just one child who would every morning come in and knock it down over and over again.

His parents were always there and they never stopped him.

They would just come at after and their comment was just a litany of platitudes and stereotypes.

Boys will be boys, they're so destructive, he can't control himself.

My daughter tried saying no and then she tried body blocking him and asking him nothing worked.

And so then she got really angry and I realized that if she acted out in that anger, she would become the problem.

What happens when we suppress anger and what would happen if we try to work with it instead?

Welcome to the Science of Happiness.

I'm Serena Chen, Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley, filling in this week for DAC or Keltner.

Today we're going to explore how the practice of self-compassion can help us stand up for ourselves after we've been wronged.

Our guess is Soraya Shameli, an award-winning writer and activist, an author of Rage Becomes Her, the Power of Women's Anger.

Soraya joins us after trying a practice to help identify and channel feelings of anger rather than suppressing or feeling bad about them.

Soraya, thanks so much for joining us today.

Thank you, Serena.

One of the big themes in your book, Rage Becomes Her, is how women and men are perceived so differently when they get angry.

People don't tend to look at the source of women's anger.

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