Is Your Anxiety Actually Suppressed Anger?

If you've been living with low-grade anxiety that nothing seems to touch - therapy, meditation, all the inner work - this episode might give you the answer you've been missing.

Today we're talking about the connection between suppressed anger and anxiety. Specifically, why people pleasers are so afraid of their own anger, what that fear is doing to their nervous system, and how years of keeping the peace might be the very thing quietly running your anxiety in the background.

In this episode:

• Why most people pleasers learned that anger wasn't safe — and where that belief came from
• What suppressed anger actually does to your nervous system and your energy body
• The anger-anxiety cascade: anger → guilt → anxiety → fear (and how to recognize it in your own life)
• Why you can't selectively numb — and what that means for your joy, love, and aliveness
• Three accessible entry points for starting to process anger in a way that actually works
• Journal prompts to help you go deeper after the episode

Mentioned in this episode:

• Previous episode: Feel it to Heal It — where I read directly from Chapter 7 of my book and share the full acupuncturist story
• Confessions of a People Pleaser by Lisa Kern — available on Amazon
• When Panic Attacks by Dr. David Burns

Ready to go deeper?

If this episode resonated and you're ready to stop carrying this alone, my one-on-one coaching program Choose Yourself is designed for exactly this. We work with your whole self — nervous system, patterns, and energy body — to get to the root of what's keeping you stuck and come back to yourself.

Send me a DM or email and just say "tell me more." I'd love to connect.

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