I remember going to see my first therapist when I was 20 years old. Eventually, after learning more about my childhood, she asked me, "Rebecca, do you ever feel angry?" I had no idea what she was talking about or implying, or why she would ask me this. Of course I quickly answered, "No!" Today, I encourage the exploration of what I call 'righteous rage' due to the profound injustices associated with insidious forms of 'invisible' abuse (family scapegoating abuse/FSA, specifically, in my practice). A lot of energy is stored up in there - energy that can help us integrate and "heal what is split" once we access it. Thank you for this "sweary" article that brought back these memories of my early days in therapy, Aun!
I remember going to see my first therapist when I was 20 years old. Eventually, after learning more about my childhood, she asked me, "Rebecca, do you ever feel angry?" I had no idea what she was talking about or implying, or why she would ask me this. Of course I quickly answered, "No!" Today, I encourage the exploration of what I call 'righteous rage' due to the profound injustices associated with insidious forms of 'invisible' abuse (family scapegoating abuse/FSA, specifically, in my practice). A lot of energy is stored up in there - energy that can help us integrate and "heal what is split" once we access it. Thank you for this "sweary" article that brought back these memories of my early days in therapy, Aun!
Thank you for this Rebecca, I replied on the restack! :)
Oh this is FUN! So many things in here that got my spirit going. Thank you!
Haha thank you! 🙏🏽 more coming up soon!
Article you may be interested in, Aun. I'll be doing my own article on this soon: 'Swallowing Traumatic Anger': https://pubhub.lib.msu.edu/read/swallowing-traumatic-anger/section/a4d06ac2-edfd-41ec-b721-c2b327ff4616
Aun, your writing is fucking awesome! 🙂 Rooting for you and delighting in your every sentence 🐘
Thank you very much! Honoured! 🙏🏽