Let's talk about anger

Anger as information: what it protects and what it asks for. Anger is the emotion people most often apologize for in a first appointment. The clip's premise is that it is a messenger with a job, usually standing in front of something more vulnerable, and that the useful question is what it is guarding rather than how to get rid of it. Twenty-three seconds.

I gave a version of the same answer in a Tricycle Day column, about anger that arrives mid-session: where do you feel it in your body, and if it could speak, what would it say. That quote is in nine Fridays of reader questions. The clip is attached to therapy and counseling, where parts work and somatic attention are the tools for exactly this.

This video is educational and is not medical advice.