From anger to action. Honouring your rage.
Imagine feeling your anger and knowing how to harness that power to serve your needs (instead of freezing up, getting explosive, or crying.)
Imagine knowing the difference between righteous, instinctive anger and sour, muddy, resentful anger.
Imagine being able to catch yourself instead of getting stuck in passive aggression or overwhelming rage.
Imagine being able to trust your instincts when protective wolfmother anger roars forth, instead of getting scared or worried that you’ve overstepped your boundaries.
Imagine embracing your anger as a barometer of truth, an indicator of how well you’re tending to your boundaries, and those of your loved ones.
Imagine how it would feel to let yourself express your big emotions with clarity and power without scaring yourself (and others.)
Imagine learning all of these things by working with unique, creative, healing themes (drawn from mythology, anatomy and anthropology.)
So many contemporary cultures deny us our anger.
From a very young age we’re taught that anger is ugly, scary and so powerful it ought to be bottled up and held in tightly, because ‘nice girls aren’t angry women’ and angry men are violent.
But our anger is a neccessary and healthy guide in life, when felt and acted on wisely.
Yet, how do we know we’re angry when we’ve been taught to suppress and shut it down our whole lives?
How do we know how to differentiate between wholesome righteous anger and resentment, passive aggression and frozen states of ‘I’m not angry’ denial when we don’t see healthy anger modeled anywhere?
And when anger stops being controllable and spills out everywhere, on every occasion, how do we get a lid on the anger and keep from hurting ourselves and others?
How do we feel and tap into anger, and move from anger into action, when we don’t know how?
If you’re reading this and saying “yes, I have those questions!” I want you to know that becoming intimate with your anger and reclaiming it’s power in service of yourself is possible.
I want you to know that getting intimate with your anger(s) is the key to solid boundaries and a healthy sense of personal power.
Honouring your anger is about feeling. It’s about allowing.
And then learning to contain it and use it, in a healthy way.
Introducing
From Anger to Action, Honouring Your Rage
A 10-module online journey in which you’ll move through frozen, furious rage into healthy self-awareness and powerfully set boundaries.
Healing via 10 modules containing stories, insights, body-based learning and writing prompts, as well as plenty of tools and techniques that offer eclectic ways of understanding and being in relationship your wild and holy rage.
Honouring your anger is about clarifying.
It’s about burning through the nonsense and confusion to cultivate a relationship with your anger that will fuel you (in the most powerfully supportive ways.)
Course breakdown
A 10-module journey into reclaiming and harnessing your fierceness and fury
Each module includes:
A story theme accompanied by a unique teaching to help you understand and deepen into your fury
Accessible creative and/or body-based action to unravel, unwind and soften your anger responses
Playful and thoughtful writing prompts designed to deepen you into greater understanding of your anger
A resource list with optional extra resources for learning and deepening
Delivered twice-weekly via e-mail (also accessible in an all-in-one webpage.)
How many of us can say that we’re connected to our anger in a healthy way?
That we can feel it, and more importantly, differentiate between healthy righteous anger and seething resentful bottled up anger?
How many of us can say that we were taught how to express and identify anger in healthy ways.
In this self-directed course you’ll walk through your anger and rage into your fiery power
You’ll nurture a deep appreciation for anger, for the fierce, the furious, the phenomenally powerful rage that lives in each of us
You’ll explore the mythic gods, goddesses and idols that embody anger
You’ll cultivate an appreciation for the destroying and generative forces of anger
All in a safely guided and self-paced, contained space.
From Anger to Action is an exploration of what anger means, and how it can be felt and expressed and honoured as power.
It’s an exploration of anger as a guidepost to tell us clearly and firmly what is important to us, when our boundaries are being violated, and when we need to voice our limits.
Module 1: softening to receive sensation
with your hands
Foundations for feeling the feelings. Building a capacity to receive.
Module 2: the Wolfmother and righteous instinctual anger
Discerning between different kinds of anger, learning to trust the protective instincts within.
Module
3: control, surrender and the pelvic floor
Building a connection to the embodied states of anger and the relationship to control, surrender and your pelvic floor.
Module 4: levity and laughter
Finding ways to appreciate the ridiculousness of anger, and laugh about it.
Module 5: the ‘it’s not fair’ wail!
What’s not fair? And what are you going to do about it? Taking anger into action.
Module 6: the importance of rest, reflection and integration
Reclaiming space for rest, why it’s so important, and what rest and anger have to do with boundaries.
Module 7: anger and the nervous system
On being (almost) run over by a big truck, and how to support the release of adrenalized anger (or reclaim anger from a state of freeze.)
Module 8: goddesses of rage and fury
Learning from the mythic and marvelous goddess archetypes of female anger.
Module 9: anger and the liver
How anger affects us physiologically (and how we can make room for anger from a body-based perspective.)
Module 10: fury and the bone-dry burdens
Feeling all the feels, then practicing letting go of those old, tired, dried-out anger burdens.
From anger to action: your journey begins here
Work through the 10 module course at your own pace.
2 payments of
$45
- From Anger to Action: Honouring Your Rage.
- Includes 10 modules
- Lifetime access
Pay in full
$80
- From Anger to Action: Honouring Your Rage.
- Includes 10 modules
- Lifetime access
$10 total savings!
Hi there. My name is Janelle and I’ve got a particular passion for anger-work.
My own initiations into rage and fury were catalyzed by a plunge into, paradoxically, deep grief.
The grieving unearthed pits of fury I’d been entirely unaware were living within me.
And the more I dug, the more I found to fuel my anger - injustice, cruelty, environmental degradation.
The more I dug, the more it also became clear that I’d been socialized into a ‘nice girl’ role, one in which anger was never ever allowed.
Never allowed because being ‘nice’ typically means putting everyone elses’ preferences above yours, and enduring and accommodating that which you do not want. Being ‘nice’ means not having healthy boundaries.
But oh, how rage and fury teach you of your boundaries, and when and why and how they’re being transgressed.
It’s for this reason, among many, that I’m a huge fan of anger-work. Because in my experience, grief and rage go hand-in-hand. Our individual and cultural healing requires relationship with both, as we live in contemporary cultures that work hard to cut us off them.
So I help people like you work with their big feelings and their lifestories.
I’ve been working as a trauma-informed Structural Integrator doing one-on-one hands-on healing bodywork for 13+ years, and teaching individuals and groups for even longer.
I’m skilled in braiding our creativity and our body-wisdom together with our deep cultural knowing and self exploration (and grief is a great catalyst for self-exploration) to create spaciousness, ease and joy in our lives.
So join me in honouring your anger. Reclaiming your rage. Harnessing your fury and reclaiming yourself.
It’ll be rich, healing, and, ultimately, very empowering.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to participate?
An email account.
Access to the internet.
Time. Each e-mail lesson will take between 20 minutes to a couple hours (which you can space out during your week, as needed.)
Why does this course have 10 daily lessons? And no videocalls?
Good question!
Working with our anger is an ongoing process, so I designed these 10 lessons to contain ideas, concepts, exercises and prompts that will spark the most shift for you, with the least time and financial cost.
I’m also delivering them to you daily so you can self-pace. It may be that you move through the material swiftly, and it may be that one lesson takes a month to digest and integrate. You’ll have all of the lessons on hand in your in-box, able to work with the next lesson as needed.
You can trust that this process is a good one, and if you engage with each of the 10 lessons, there will be plenty of transformation for you.
Can I get more services added to this? I want to work with you more/work with my whole lifestory.
Absolutely. You can also take my grief course.
I also offer an online 13-module transformational memoir-writing course The Art of Personal Mythmaking. It’s rich, deep and wonderful.
How are you qualified to teach anger-work?
Thanks for asking.
I’ve got 13+ years experience doing hands-on healing work, 4+ years experience facilitating group healing processes (my Art of Personal Mythmaking course) and I got almost all of my Hospice Yukon volunteer training done (all about death, dying, grief and how to accompany people in their grieving.)
The only reason I didn’t finish the Hospice Yukon training was because in 2010, after 4 years living with leukemia, my father died. At that moment I left the anticipatory training grounds of griefwork and I began my experiential apprenticeship with death and grief.
You may think that griefwork has nothing to do with anger-work, but I assure you, the two emotions go hand-in-hand. One is needed by the other, and both are states that are discouraged in many contemporary cultures.
I’ve gone through my own initiation into my anger and fury, learning, over many years, to shed the stiff and rigid good-girl-agreeableness that masked an overwhelming reservoir of anger (and grief.)
Learning to really and truly feel, and to discern between righteous protective anger, healthy boundaries and my own sense of self-worth was pivotal to understanding anger as a force for protection as well as destruction.
From anger to action: your journey begins here.
Work through the 10 module course at your own pace.
2 payments of
$45
- From Anger to Action: Honouring Your Rage.
- Includes 10 modules
- Lifetime access
Pay in full
$80
- From Anger to Action: Honouring Your Rage.
- Includes 10 modules
- Lifetime access
$10 total savings!
