Jennifer Cox: why women are furious (and getting angrier)

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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My guest today is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Jennifer Cox. She trained at the Tavistock and now has an extensive practice specialising in treating women with undiagnosed anger. As part of this work she developed the Women are Mad approach to help women who can’t afford therapy to “think below the surface” about where their rage might be coming from. Sounds like it might be useful? I thought so, too. Jen is also the co host of the Women Are Mad podcast and has written a book called Women Are Angry which is very much what it says on the tin. Her mission? To help us identify our rage and let it the hell out. Productively. Of course. Jen joined me for a fascinating conversation about the nature of female rage and why she thinks we’re seeing such a groundswell of fury now. We also discussed the impact of being a young carer, when and why we learn to “bitch”, why it’s easier to be a worried person than an angry one and the moment the anger penny dropped for her. CW: I should warn you that there’s passing discussion of suicidal ideation, eating disorders and depression Note: This was recorded before the November 5 election in the US. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including Women are Angry by Jennifer Cox and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * If you enjoyed this episode and you fancy buying me a coffee, pop over to my page on buymeacoffee.com. • And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls @ Pineapple Audio Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup.
0:32.6	Hello and welcome to the shift the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-barred truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:46.4	My guest today is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Jennifer Cox.
0:50.9	She trained at the Tavistock and now has an extensive practice specialising in treating women with undiagnosed anger.
0:59.6	As part of this work, she developed the Women Are Mad approach to help women who can't afford therapy, to think below the surface, as she puts it, about where their rage might be coming from.
1:11.3	Sounds like it might be useful?
1:13.2	I thought so too.
1:15.2	Jen is also the co-host of the Women Are Mad podcast and has written a book called Women Are
1:20.5	Are Angry, which is very much what it says on the tin.
1:24.0	Her mission?
1:25.0	To help us identify our rage and let it the hell out. Productively, of course.
1:32.2	Shutting yourself in the toilet cubicle at work and doing star jumps or running on the spot or kind of scream into a cushion at home, which is very muffling and people genuine, genuine you can't hear that.
1:43.8	And then letting your brain come back
1:46.9	online.
1:48.4	Jen joined me for a fascinating conversation about the nature of female rage and why she thinks
1:53.7	we're seeing such a groundswell of fury right now.
1:57.1	We also discussed the impact of being a young carer, when and why we learn to bitch,
2:03.3	why it's easier to be a worried person than an angry one,
2:06.9	and the moment the anger Penny dropped for her.
2:09.6	I should also warn you that there's passing discussion of suicidal ideation, eating disorders and depression.
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