Module 5b: Anger
The art of holding and letting go. | Module 5 - Power and Anger | Somatic Essay
The road we’re on so far is moving from hope to love, from love to resilience, and from resilience to anger. That might seem like a dramatic shift, but as I alluded to at the end of the last somatic essay for hypertrophy, when our suffering becomes our identity, it builds resentment.
Resentment is a fickle bugger because it’s a combination of anger towards someone or something else and sadness or pity towards yourself. From a clinical perspective, this is where discussions about forgiveness and apologies are relevant. They both require each other to function, yet are fundamentally “not about” each other.