Angry At The Right Things

Bronwyn shares a key to how to understand what our bodies are communicating, which they often are. She leads us practically in how to respond, promoting healing and wholeness.

This interview with Dr. Christie McMullen of the Productive Joy podcast shares encouraging examples of how to take back the reigns of our body by being responsible for our emotions and doing right by ourselves.

Shame creates denial which shuts down the brain, causing a type of tunnel vision and narcissism. The antidote is mirroring the truth, which simultaneously binds a narcissist while setting ourselves free.

Our inner conflicts create schisms within us that only we can heal, by revisiting our childhood and questioning it, knowing our feelings are valid, and dislodging shame.

When we don't allow ourselves to feel our anger, we betray ourselves which makes us sick, resulting in anxiety, depression and many types of physical illness. Our anger protect us, and ultimately others. 

Please visit my interview hosts, Dr. Andrea & Jonathan Taylor-Cummings of The 4 Habits: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-4-habits-institute/

A true, cautionary tale demonstrating the danger of keeping feelings bottled up inside, known as alexithymia. Studies show alexithymia is linked with suppressed immune function, which can lead to cancer.

We all long for the nurture we didn't receive as children, which can entail much suffering. But that suffering can bring us to a place of rebirth and renewal. Hunger can lead to fullness.

Human-based institutions lose their humanity when there isn't room for critical thinking. Humans are meant to employ critical thinking every single day -- and when their voices are heard, the world becomes a beautiful place to live.

When we choose to not feel one feeling, we lose the ability to feel them all -- including empathy. Empathy guides us to live in ways that lead to life and flourishing, but this can only result when we dislodge all shame.

Uniting to others can cause us to lose a part of ourselves. The litmus test of a safe-enough person is if they are willing to bend when we push back.

Trigger Warning: includes topics of rape and incest. What makes humans inclined to transfer shame onto others, in the most horrific of ways? And how can we reclaim our our souls in spite of this propensity? Realizing our worth makes impenetrable.

A beautiful conversation between Bronwyn and MaryLayo from Beyond the Smile podcast about anger and resentment. The good, bad and the ugly about anger -- including it's multifaceted wisdom, when we start to listen to it. 

Reactive anger is rooted in shame and designed to fight truth. The reactive anger of others wants to intimidate us and make us second-guess ourselves -- but we can stand our ground and trust ourselves, even if we have to close our eyes to do so.

Many of us were conceived to fill a void within our mother, and that same inner emptiness was passed along to us. We may attempt to fill it with food, approval-seeking or connection, but only we can complete ourselves. Bronwyn leads us in an Integration exercise to that end.

Wisdom from Sarah's story: how codependency and enmeshment led to her death, because she never learned what constitutes healthy attachment. Learn how to be a secure base for our children, and for ourselves.

Trauma stems from a fracture in our brains, in which external phenomena causes an internal splitting - of our rational mind from our emotions. Feeling our feelings - no matter how illogical they may seem - is necessary for the processing of the events to be made complete.

Why is it that the people who could most benefit from therapy are the least likely to go? A good therapist is a good mirror, and many people are terrified to look in a mirror.

Newton's laws of physics give us profound insight for relational dynamics. Even a small change can create a cascade of beneficial results. Inertia also shows up in relationships -- until an outside force changes it for the better.

On this interview on the Emotion Well podcast Bronwyn addresses what happens when we keep our anger and resentment inside, as well as how to connect with our anger without becoming a "hothead." In other words, how we can be true to ourselves without hurting others.