by Deborah Cox | Sep 8, 2025 | anger, Becoming More of Your True Self, body psychotherapy, Feel Better, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, religion, religious abuse, Women
In his groundbreaking book When the Body Says No, physician Gabor Maté describes how suppressed emotions can lead to real, physical illness. His research and clinical stories show us that when we consistently silence our anger, grief, or frustration, the body...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 7, 2025 | anger, Becoming More of Your True Self, body psychotherapy, cultural healing, dissociation, Feel Better, getting grounded, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, religion, religious abuse, Wife Material, Women
In When the Body Says No, physician Gabor Maté reveals a hard truth: when we silence our emotions, our bodies eventually speak for us—through illness. Autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, even cancer often emerge in people who have spent years denying their own anger,...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 12, 2021 | anger, cultural healing, Relational Cultural Theory, religion, religious abuse
So Many Sick People A sea of sick people. Not bad people. Just regular people who’ve joined at least one cult. I believe that bad religion, religious abuse, and spiritual trauma hurt the individual, the community, and the world. Right now, the United States has...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 12, 2020 | anger, child maltreatment, Connect, cultural healing, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships
Sibling Political Anger I just spent a Saturday with my brother – after years of unspoken anger, political divisions, and very little contact. Three years my junior, he lives just twenty minutes away, Yet, we see each other perhaps once or twice a year. Michael and I...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 1, 2020 | anger, Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, cultural healing, Feel Better, parenting, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Uncategorized
Mindful anger means experiencing the emotion in an: 1. awake, 2. deliberate, and 3. self-nurturing way. Let’s break this down a bit so we can see how to love ourselves through difficult moments. Last week, I had an experience that allowed me to practice this. The...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 17, 2020 | anger, Becoming More of Your True Self, cultural healing, Feel Better, parenting, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Uncategorized
How does anger help with compassion? Yesterday I talked with a friend who grasped, for the first time, how a family member had emotionally abused her. In about five minutes, she went from confused and ashamed . . . to angry, as she pieced together an incident in which...
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