Sometimes owning our pain and bearing witness to struggle means getting angry. When we deny ourselves the right to be angry, we deny our pain.*
(Brené Brown)
sadness helps access joining, fear helps open perceiving, anger helps open knowing, and joy leads the way to drawing**
Sometimes, the thing that makes us angry or brings us pain is the thing that provides us with a trajectory for our lives. It is not where we stay but where we travel from:
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances but only by lack of meaning and purpose.^
(*From Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness.)
(**From Kelvy Bird’s Generative Scribing.)
(^Erich Fromm, quoted in Dan Ariely’s Payoff.)
