WHOLEHEARTED RAGE
ANGER & FORGIVENESS WORK
This guided space is dedicated to the exploration of rage as a powerful and essential emotion that can be used to cultivate aliveness, clarity, and the ability to use one's voice.
We’ll use solo practices, guided rage exercises, and relational group work to practice feeling, expressing, and holding space for rage in ourselves and others.
If you are a coach or facilitator, you will expand your own range, practice holding others in their anger, and learn a set of skills and exercises that you can use with your clients.
This workshop is for all genders.
FOUR SUNDAYS ONLINE
This class is for all genders
July 12, 19, 26 + August 2
1:30 - 3:30p PT / 4:30 - 6:30p ET
*YOU MUST ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS TO PARTICIPATE
WHEN YOU THINK OF "RAGE WORK", YOU MIGHT JUST THINK OF RAGE...
but there’s so much more here, like the beautiful forgiveness work and the unmixing of emotions, so I could feel one feeling fully.
The variety of tools you shared, using speaking, writing, and somatic work, showed me all these different parts of myself and let me experience my emotions in new ways.
—GINGER
RAGE IS ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD EMOTIONAL FORCES
In its simplest form, it is one of the four basic feelings: sad, mad, glad, and scared. It shows us where our edges are, where our boundaries lie, reveals our passions, and who and what we deeply care about.
In its complexity, anger is labeled as dangerous, bad, wrong, out of control, or too much. Our own feelings of guilt and shame can easily get kicked up when our anger is directed at the people we love most, and yet, we do get angry at the people we love sometimes!
The issue is not rage itself, but rather how we judge ourselves and others for having it and then all the ways we contort, suppress, and bargain our way out of feeling this super-charged emotion.
Denying anger can also lead to explosive outbursts, which can feel scary and unexpected. If we grew up in an environment where someone expressed explosive rage, we may have unconsciously made an inner agreement to "never be like them", avoiding it at all costs.
It's time to rewire our thinking about anger, forgive ourselves for the judgments we have placed against it, and discover how it can be used for growth, upliftment, and in service of our own hearts.
THE BIGGEST GIFT I RECEIVED FROM THIS COURSE
was the way it was held with compassionate curiosity and informed experience, such that I felt like I could see something that I had been missing my whole life.
—A.W.
WHOLEHEARTED RAGE
was created to give individuals the opportunity to develop a new relationship with their anger, one of permission, approval, and responsibility.
This series will introduce you to the range of anger available inside, from 0% - 100%. We will explore lower levels of anger, find the power that lies within them, and then build each week to touch new ground in a way that feels digestible and can be integrated.
IN THIS 4-WEEK SERIES, YOU WILL:
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Expand your emotional range so anger feels more useful, calibrated, and conscious
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Practice safe, embodied rage exercises that build your capacity to feel, express, and speak when you are angry
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Learn how to work with guilt, shame, and fear around feeling rage, especially toward people & situations you care about
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Discover how to move anger through to completion, not just expression
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Engage in Self-Forgiveness Practices for clarifying misunderstandings and updating out dated beliefs
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Build your capacity to stay present while others express big emotions
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Cultivate greater self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-love
AFTER EACH CALL, I LEFT FEELING SATURATED IN MYSELF IN AN EFFORTLESS, EFFERVESCENT WAY.
I could physcially feel energy moving and flowing through my whole body, and I got more access to myself, my heart, and my joy.
Rage became a doorway to all the other feelings.
—P.M.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
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Four, 2-hour group sessions
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One 60-minute coaching session and intake call with Anita (value $300) *scheduled before our June 6th start date
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Optional 20-min emotional release writing calls between sessions / 2 per week
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Group sharing and digestion of content + group thread for announcements and connection between calls
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Optional extra support for an additional fee: One-on-one coaching sessions available for the duration of the course.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY...
I AM NO LONGER DISEMPOWERED BY FEAR OF MY RAGE.
I CAN TOUCH IT NOW.
—AVA
THE SPACE YOU HOLD IS INCREDIBLY SAFE...
and your acceptance gave me so much permission to reach emotional levels I wouldn’t access otherwise. There’s a cheerleader in you saying, ‘Yes, go dig, I’m here for it all, give me your ugly cry, give me your everything.
—G.A.
I'VE DONE OTHER RAGE WORK THAT GOES TO THE EXTREME
but this workshop opened up a whole different world for me. It invited me into the subtler realms of my experience and helped me see that I have a lot of mixed emotions that keep me stuck. I learned practical tools on how to unmix them and come into clarity.
—Piney
I WAS SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH CLARITY I RECEIVED
from the 10-minute writing exercises. It helped me shine a light on the biggest piece I am working on right now, something that I’ve felt really angry and confused about. I gained a type of clarity that I could feel in my entire body.
—Nikki
YOUR COMMUNICATION IS SO CLEAR, ANITA.
You tell us what we’re doing, what’s coming, and then you actually follow through. It feels like the most beautiful parenting.
You say what you’re going to do and you do it, which builds so much trust.
—G.A.
THROUGH THIS WORKSHOP, I LEARNED TO GET CURIOUS
about my rage, to loosen the knot of fear, and to engage with it in a way that feels genuinely empowered.
—Ava
YOU’VE CREATED SUCH A SAFE SPACE FOR US TO PLAY IN THIS.
I've felt safe in all your containers, which let me go to the hard places and really let it rip. There aren’t many spaces where I feel this free.
—Jules
SEPARATING OUT MY MIXED EMOTIONS HELPED ME REALIZE
that what I’d been feeling all along was actually fear—and that insight was profoundly useful.
– R.H.
OTHER RAGE SPACES HAVE FELT LIKE WE JUST AMP EVERYTHING UP UNTIL WE BLOW THE LID OFF, WHICH CAN BE GREAT, BUT NOT ALWAYS USEFUL.
In Wholdhearted Rage, Anita knitted rage together with something much more rooted and tangible, which made it feel more impactful.
—Robert
I'VE BEEN RESISTANT TO DOING THIS WORK
but because you were holding it, Anita, I felt I could touch these things. You hold the space with such care and gently stepped me through places I dared not go before.
- Jenny
I PREVIOUSLY HAD GUILT AND ANGER LINKED TOGETHER.
Something shifted, and I don’t feel that guilt anymore. I experience anger in a much freer way, and I am very, very grateful.
- C.D.
AS SOMEONE WHO WASN’T ALLOWED TO HAVE CERTAIN EMOTIONS EXPRESSED GROWING UP,
this space has created a completely new association and relationship with anger. It’s become lighter, curious, playful, and even joyful to be with my anger.
-Jen
THIS CLASS HAD A DEEP IMPACT ON ME.
It helped me rewrite the story that it is dangerous to speak up.
—JENNY
THIS CLASS HELPED ME REFRAME WHAT ANGER IS
and all the gifts that anger gives me. I now see how anger links with joy and empowerment.
I feel blessed that I got to explore this and to have tools I can take with me and teach my kids."
- Camila
GROWING UP, I WAS TAUGHT NOT TO GO THERE
that rage should be avoided. Having this experience showed me how much my body needs this energy to move. My kidneys and liver just feel better.
I have more energy to hold my business and the things I need to lean into.
- J.R.L.
I'M GRATEFUL AND APPRECIATIVE ANITA,
of your beautiful space holding and for bringing yourself forward in this work.
You gave permission to touch into parts of myself that I was too scared to touch before.
-Jen P.
IT WAS DEEPLY MEANINGFUL TO USE ANGER TO SPEAK THE THINGS I WANTED.
I got to feel my desire and anger come together in a way that actually felt good.
I now see how I can use the clarity of my anger to get behind the changes I want to see in the world.
—R. DAVID
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