Angry At The Right Things

Bronwyn Schwaggart, a licensed psychotherapist and anger expert, shares her insights on managing anger without losing control. She discusses the dangers of suppressing emotions and how childhood experiences shape our responses to anger. Bronwyn describes anger as a crucial signal that deserves our attention and offers practical steps for channeling it positively. She emphasizes the importance of modeling healthy emotional responses for children and explains how adults can express their feelings to foster understanding.

Meghan is an extreme example of what humans do when we abandon ourselves. As much as we want to hate her, it’s not her that’s evil, it’s the insatiability inside her, and we can all relate to that.

Oral greed is everywhere, and it is detrimental. It is the opposite of nurture, and often creates mental illness in our children. To the contrary, a listening parent creates powerful children.

Bronwyn shares true ghost stories of dissociated hatred to encourage us to own our feelings. Feelings are like limbs, and if cut off, we find ourselves haunted by phantom limb syndrome. Reality truly is stranger than fiction. 

We humans tend to outsource our nurture to others, which makes us betray ourselves. Yet when we give ourselves the approval and nurture we need, we're finally free to disappoint the hell out of everyone else, in order to be true to ourselves.

This is a profound discussion and interview I did on the Untethering Shame podcast with therapist Kyira Wackett about how to integrate with our Core Self. Learn what it takes to find yourself and come alive.  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untethering-shame/id1691795543 https://open.spotify.com/show/2AouludJr7EweOkMIN9s42?si=d371f8692f83410d&nd=1&dlsi=4eb4c019afde4e2b  

Dissociated feelings of hatred haunt us like ghosts, until we start to attune to them and express them into healthy words and actions. Here's how to exorcise spooky things from your presence, replacing them with life.

When we choose to nurture our parents we end up losing our soul. Here's how to reclaim our lives by surrendering denial and false hope, and taking up self-nurture.

Bronwyn Schwaggart, a licensed psychotherapist and expert on anger, dives into the complexities of painful emotions. She explores why society teaches us to suppress anger and highlights its physical and mental health implications. Bronwyn emphasizes the healing power of expressing anger and reframes hate as a protective signal. She shares practical strategies for processing these emotions safely and leads a powerful inner-child exercise to aid integration. Ultimately, she encourages self-responsibility as a path to healing for ourselves and those around us.

Denial and dissociation from feelings make us sick, and dis-integrated. Let's learn how to coordinate our feelings, thoughts and body in an integrated way so we live in reality, being true to ourselves.