Sacred Rage. Holy Grief. What to "Do" & How to Use Our Deep, Big Emotions (Wisdom LIbrary)

Anger and grief are good human emotions. They have the potential to open up so much for us – individually and collectively – which can lead to healing, breaking down barriers, and breaking through to better realities.

The problem is that most humans weren't taught how to express anger or grief in healthy ways, so it comes out sideways in distorted ways, or it gets stuffed down until we blow up or get sick. Sometimes we are the receiver of that big emotional eruption and other times we are the "unleasher" or "erupter" on someone else.

This episode was originally released in July 2024 as part of our nine-part summer series, Stay Light, hosted by Christine Arylo & Jennifer Alexandar. We pulled it out of our Feminine Power Time Wisdom Library as part of our 4-part July 2025 series this year. Wisdom still so relevant for these times.    

We explore perspectives and practices around dealing with the kind of rage and grief that comes from our wounds or the wounds of others, and how to do it differently in ways that lead to wholeness, including how we can:

• Discharge anger and grief so that it doesn't build up inside us and leak out, or erupt in distorted ways
• Have big emotions like rage and grief about the world, about our reality, about other people's actions or choices, without them consuming us
• Use our big emotions to heal ourselves and ignite creative action that inspires
• Deal with other people’s misdirected rage and grief
• Respond to the things that enrage us, in powerful ways that make the world better vs. adding to the chaos

Between now and the next episode, we invite you to contemplate the two-part inquiry: What anger or grief am I holding on to? Where do I feel it in my body?

Bonus invitation: amplify your awareness and capacity to shift by SHARING this podcast with a friend and conversating on the inquiry together. Let’s Stay Light in community with fellow Wise Beings – join us!

 

Resources & Links:

Osho Dynamic Meditation 

Kundalini yoga: Kriya for Releasing Anger

"Wheels of Life" by Anodea Judith (book on chakras)

“Returning” by Jennifer Berezan 

 

What’s next?

• Tune in next week for our July Series ... Catalyze: Release the Comfortable. Embrace the Call to Shift. 
• Remember to SHARE this podcast episode with at least one friend or colleague. Then conversate on the emotions moving through you and how you are moving through them + then using them to fuel, focus and flow your creative energy.

Ways to Connect:

• Subscribe to Christine's Monthly Wisdom Letters 
• Connect with Christine and Jennifer on LinkedIn
• Join us in the Feminine Wisdom Cafe, our Mighty Networks community 
• Watch on YouTube