How To Harness Your Anger

How To!

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Contemporary women are primal-screaming and hitting rage rooms, but are these really the solutions to our personal and political anger? On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin talks with Soraya Chemaly, journalist and author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, about her own recent upsurge of anger. Soraya explains how to identify, understand, and harness what’s bottled up inside you—and use it for change. If you liked this episode check out How To Make Imposter Syndrome Your Superpower and How To Be Lonely. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Sophie Summergrad. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Get more of How To! with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of How To! and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the How To! show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus for access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	Okay, babe. Friday night, 904 p.m.
1:09.0	It's been a long week. I've got a question for you.
1:09.6	Yes.
1:13.8	What do you think about my relationship to anger?
1:20.6	I would say your relationship to anger is seasonal.
1:24.1	What does that mean?
1:31.3	Just like certain seasons are kind of like chapters of life. I think I enjoy at least when it's directed at me.
1:35.3	Any surprises here?
1:39.3	No.
1:41.3	Okay.
1:42.3	Do you think there's relationship between personal and political anger?
1:46.0	Oh, sure.
1:48.0	I think we probably take, like, political frustration, anger, and we project it onto people we love.
1:57.0	This is how to. I'm Courtney Martin. I think it's safe to say this year has been my toughest ever.
2:08.2	My dad has been living with dementia for a while now, but its impact on him has reached acute and cruel new depths.
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