The Five Stages of Waking Up: Anger

Welcome to week two in our series called "Waking Up," the process by which we become aware of our conditioning and begin to make conscious choices about who we are and how we live. Anger is the essential, terrifying step of the journey in which we finally allow ourselves to feel our self-worth and the assaults we've experienced against it. Some of those assaults came from others and some from us. This week, we're going to take a good look at anger: what it is, what it's not, how to use it, what it's for, and why it's such an essential part of our lives. Anger gets a bad rap; we confuse it with aggression. This week, let's learn the difference so we can allow our anger and allow it to do what it does: point us in the direction of living a life with the boundaries in place that keep our self-worth, self-respect, and dignity intact.