Episode 659: Lesson 2 on The Four Holy Emotions: How Grief, Terror, Rage, and Shame Unlock Your Power

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

“Emotional fluency is your path to power.” Welcome to Lesson 2, where I explore what I call the four holy emotions—grief, terror, rage, and shame—and how they can unlock your power. But like any personal growth journey, we need to lay the groundwork first. I’ll share why we resist these emotions, explore how to stop resisting them, and finally, see them as sacred messengers rather than obstacles. If you’re new to my special 10-week “Coming Home to Yourself” podcast series leading up to my 50th birthday, welcome! Every Wednesday, I’m sharing a life lesson that has shaped my personal growth over the last 50 years. I put a lot of thought into what has truly propelled me forward. And because birthdays (and personal growth) deserve to be celebrated, don’t forget that I’m giving away a copy of one of my books each week on Instagram! 🎉 Each of the emotions I discuss in this episode has an unmet need, a truth, or a deep intelligence beneath it. When we meet them with curiosity instead of avoidance, they become portals to freedom, clarity, and self-trust. One more thing - grab this episode’s worksheet below! ⬇ What you’ll hear in this episode: Grief, Terror, Rage, and Shame: How each one, when met with curiosity instead of fear, leads us closer to personal power. How We Typically Resist the Four Holy Emotions: The coping strategies we develop: numbing, perfectionism, people-pleasing, workaholism, addiction, dissociation How to Work WITH These Emotions Instead of Against Them: Leaving you with the question, ”What if we started honoring these emotions instead of fearing them?" Resources from this episode: Write Your Way Through It Sign up to make sure you don’t miss any of my birthday episodes! Find me on Instagram @heyandreaowen Lesson 1: Self-abandonment, codependency, and self-trust How to Stop Feeling Like Shit Book recommendations: I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading! MSN is supported by: We love the sponsors that make our show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: andreaowen.com/sponsors/ Episode link: http://andreaowen.com/569 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	Your emotions are not the problem. Your emotions are never the problem. You're not the problem.
0:34.6	It's the resistance to them that is making you feel stuck. You're playing by the rules. And then we get to a certain point where it just feels like shit and we're like, what is the antidote? Sometimes it's the four holy emotions, grief, terror, rage, and shame. The more we suppress those emotions, the more they own us, the more we witness those emotions, the more we allow them the space that they need to be processed, the more they can serve as guides to us.
1:05.1	You're listening to Makes Noise Podcast, episode number 659.
1:20.3	Yeah. episode number 6.59. Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself. I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur,
1:27.0	life coach since 2007, an author
1:29.3	of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:35.8	Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable
1:40.4	confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.
1:49.8	Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of podcast. I'm so glad that you are here,
1:54.4	partly because this is episode two, lesson two, I should say, in the 10 lesson series that I'm calling coming home to yourself.
2:03.5	The reason that I'm calling it that is because all 10 of these episodes are weekly and they're
2:08.2	leading up to my 50th birthday, which is in April.
2:11.5	So this is lesson two.
2:12.5	If you didn't listen to lesson one, I highly recommend that you go back and listen to it.
2:15.9	It was my favorite one because it was my only one. But I wanted to kick it off talking about self-abandonment and
2:21.9	self-trust to things that are coming up in my life a lot lately over the last couple of years.
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