Angry At The Right Things

Our triggers present us an opportunity to heal, as we learn to understand and integrate with our Inner Child. Learn how to stop dissociating from your feelings, and how to cultivate your Self. 

Learn how to attune to what your body is speaking to you, dismantle shame, and in the process, reunite with yourself. 

Therapy shouldn't reinforce or perpetuate the ultimate trauma, which entails making us second-guess ourselves. Learn how to pick a great therapist from inside information, and trust yourself in the process. 

Learn what our bodies are communicating through our relationship to food, as well as what makes us susceptible to cult personalities. Also, learn savvy to know what is not a coincidence, but a type of abusive communication. 

We remain undifferentiated until we unravel all knots of enmeshment with our parents, which are often hidden and unconscious. Learn the real root of OCD-like symptoms, and how profoundly simple it can be to undo. 

Boundaries create order out of chaos, and are needed for us to flourish. Learn what your body is speaking, and how to externalize it out of your body, so you can have peace. 

There's no such thing as an angry person, because all humans have anger. What matters is our relationship to our anger, and that of others. Learn how to create a healthy relationship to anger that brings healing to you and your relationships. 

Mental illness stems from suppressed anger from a betrayal that's usually out of our awareness. The journey of awareness can lead to becoming a new person -- a stronger, wiser person who has safer relationships. A person who no longer betrays herself. 

Perspective literally means to "grasp thoroughly." Perspective is powerful when it's rooted in reality, in fact, it could save your life. Learn how to tame mental illness with a bird's eye view. 

Pertinent info for those of us who suspect we have a BPD parent. This episode was inspired in part by psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson, as interviewed on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. Also -- re-examining what it means to honor our parents in light of Biblical tradition.