Embody Your Power
Embody Your Power is an integrative model that bridges science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to give you the resources needed to live your fullest potential. As a psychotherapist for over 16 years and now as a coach, I help people know, reclaim, and embody their power on all levels.
It is my mission to help you connect to your unshakable resilience, to know true power and freedom, to be sovereign and to remember your divine nature.
If you’re wanting to learn tools to release layers of conditioning, heal from trauma, feel at home in your body, have inner peace, expand your capacity for joy, connect spiritually, and take a journey with me to embody your power… then this podcast is for you.
Thank you for joining me.
Together let’s raise our consciousness to help evolve humanity.
Embody Your Power
Anger: Our Boundary Bodyguard
In Episode 8, I will explore the wisdom of anger as a boundary bodyguard and how to work with anger to embody your power.
Many of us have been on the receiving end of anger. We know how painful it is when someone else’s pain, discomfort, disgust, or even hatred is aimed at us. Anger is generally seen as a bad or destructive emotion, because of how much suffering it can cause.
Rarely, do we learn that anger has wisdom and how to work with anger in healthy ways.
Anger can be utilized to create healthy boundaries and restore our power. When we are able to create boundaries with others and others respect our boundaries, we feel a greater sense of safety and relaxation navigating relationships and the world. Anger is what will let us know if anyone or anything threatens or violates our boundaries. It’s like a boundary bodyguard. Anger looks out to the world for any threats to our boundaries. Anger also looks inward and sees our core self and knows that we are worthy of respect and protection and that our boundaries are essential for us to be true to ourselves and thrive.
What do YOU do when you feel angry?
Some of us vow to never express anger. Others may feel more comfortable expressing anger even if it’s destructive to our relationships. We can also turn our anger inward on ourselves.
Many of us will experience all of these ways of relating to anger and will express anger in various ways depending on the situation. However, If we are suppressing our anger, turning it inwards, or allowing it to take us over and drive us around we haven’t found a healthy relationship to it.
I explore how anger is a personal bodyguard and help you understand it’s wisdom. Anger orients around what needs be protected? And...what needs be restored? Boundaries are an important part of embodying your power. We'll look at how anger is asking us to assert our boundaries and repair our boundaries. We may have parts of ourselves that are allowing our boundaries to be overridden. Speaking up for your boundaries and not overriding them is essential for your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. When we assert our boundaries we Embody Our Power. We stand in our truth. We are sovereign. We’re not giving our power away nor are we trying to have power over others with our boundaries.
At the end of this episode I offer some things to reflect upon.
- Take some time to see if your anger is in response to someone crossing or attempting to cross a boundary. See if you can identify the boundary that was threatened or crossed.
- Work on separating from the anger part so that you can respond from your core self with integrity.
- Speak for the angry part rather than from it. Meaning, instead of saying I’m angry at you… Practice saying I have a part of me that’s angry. That helps you stay connected to your core self.
- Listen to and assert your boundaries. Practice respecting your boundaries as well as the boundaries of others.
Thank you for listening!
With gratitude, Danielle