June '24 Journal Prompts
“Anger calls for attention and a decision. You can use the energy of the feeling to effect a change.” Marlene Winell, Ph.D.
What if your rage was sacred? What would that mean?
What if your anger was trying to reveal something? What could it be?
What if your rage is not only for you? But for your entire maternal line… and all the women around the world who’ve endured horrors we can only imagine. What if their voices speak through us and will not be silenced?
What is an emotion you go to instead of rage? (I go to people-pleasing or a FAWN trauma response.)
Think of something you have recently experienced that made you angry or even irritated. What was your reaction (if any)?
Did this experience that made you mad threaten any of your personal values? If so, which one(s)?
Rage focuses our attention on threats to ourselves, our families, and our values, yet throughout history women have not been able to fight, so we have resorted to using “indirect aggression and back door manipulation to get what we want.” Name a time you have presented a false self instead of an angry self. Why did you? Was it to remain safe?
“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.” What was your inner child taught?
To love others from a place of integrated feminine, we must first love ourselves. "To do this we have to forgive ourselves for being human, because to be human is to have lots of faults; so you have to forgive, and then the love flows in." Can you offer yourself words of forgiveness for not harnessing your anger to speak up against a threat?
Think of the example you wrote earlier. Notice it. Trust it. Value it. How could you use the energy of the feeling to effect a change? Could you directly communicate your wound to your offender and offer them the opportunity to apologize? Or would you prefer to release this anger through a letter you write but never send, a dance in the rain, a moaning shower, a long sweaty walk, or a boxing class? How could you honor your rage instead of pretending to feel emotions you do not feel?
