Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Helior Soundboard.

This episode topic is one we could likely stretch into multiple episodes and may continue

on in some way that we wanted to at least begin a conversation today around anger, something

that we all experience as humans and something largely that we have learned to shun or

shove away or ignore.

I think one of the biggest reasons why it's quite a universal experience, whether or not

we're allowing it into our experience or whether or not we're suppressing it, shoving it away,

as you just said, is because anger results when we are violated, when our physical or emotional

boundaries are violated, or when our needs are going unmet, it's that physiological indicator,

as we often describe emotions to be, that either of those scenarios are either happening or we're

perceiving them to happen. So, saying that to say, I mean, I think quite universally, we've all

had those moments where we felt threatened or violated within our space or our thoughts or

our emotions, or, and I can just speak for my own personal journey, I know for me personally,

I've gone for quite so many decades with particular unmet needs. So whether we're aware of it or not,

anger for a lot of us is happening within our bodies. And while it's happening within our bodies,

we are largely unaware of it, which is why we get to a place later in life. I mean, I'm saying

later in life as a 36 year old, though I hope that this is still very early in my life. And even

at 36, I know that the anger that's within me and even new anger that has been surfacing recently

in the last few years is anger that has been there and been suppressed, been shoved down

four years, really decades now that hasn't dissipated or disappeared because I shunned it and

suppressed it so well, it's still there just in a lot of depths and dark corners. And the more

healing I do, the more conscious and aware I become and allow myself to accept that anger and keep

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