Anger Is a Compass, Not a Confession
When anger flares, most of us assume something is wrong with us. Shadow work asks a different question: what need is this feeling pointing toward?
Most of us learned, early on, that anger was evidence. Evidence that we were difficult, unreasonable, too much. So we got very good at managing it — suppressing it, apologizing for it, or turning it inward where it could do its damage quietly.
Shadow work asks us to pause before we manage the feeling away. It asks: what if the anger is telling the truth?
The Story We Tell About Anger
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