There’s a difference between frustration and anger.
Frustration can come and go in the moment.
But anger that creates a physical reaction in your body tight chest, racing heart, sweaty palms, shaking, sadness, the need to control the situation often means there is still a wound within asking to be healed.
And that’s okay. 💛
Healing is not pretending it no longer affects you.
Healing is being able to face it without it controlling your nervous system.
Many people think they healed something until life triggers that emotion again years later. That doesn’t mean you failed. It means there’s still a part of you asking for love, safety, understanding, and release.
So here is a practice I use:
Close your eyes.
Bring the experience to the forefront of your mind as if it’s happening right now.
Notice the sensations in your body without running from them.
Feel it.
Observe it.
Accept it.
Now instead of resisting the anger transmute it.
I often tell my daughter:
“Healthy angry determination.”
Meaning take that intense energy and move it through your body like an internal self-massage. Let it become awareness, wisdom, boundaries, motivation, self-respect, and self-love instead of destruction.
Thank the experience for revealing the part of you that still needs nurturing.
Your emotions are not your enemy. They are guidance.
And when you stop allowing anger to rent space in your mind, body, and spirit you reclaim your power.
Through your mind’s eye, extend love and compassion toward the people, experiences, or memories that triggered you. Not because what happened was okay but because you deserve peace.
You repeat this process over and over again.
Because healing is not instant.
It’s a process.
Just like watering a seed into a tree. 🌱