Janice Ho
Janice Ho
Fearing and Befriending Anger
Fearing and Befriending Anger
Fearing and Befriending Anger
Friday 7th November 2025
Explore how embracing anger can transform relationships and self-understanding in this engaging episode of The Soul's Work Podcast.
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38 minutes
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Episode Overview
- Anger is a valid emotion that communicates unmet needs.
- Societal norms often demonise anger, leading to its repression.
- Internal Family Systems Therapy helps reconnect with repressed emotions.
- Understanding cultural influences is crucial in emotional healing.
- Embracing anger can lead to healthier boundaries and self-advocacy.
"Anger is a core emotion, a valid emotion. It carries with it a message that is trying to communicate something to us."
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? This episode of The Soul's Work Podcast, titled 'Fearing and Befriending Anger', tackles the complex relationship many of us have with anger. Host Janice Ho candidly shares her personal journey of understanding and embracing her anger after years of repression. She delves into how societal and cultural norms often demonise anger, leading many to disown this core emotion.
Janice opens up about her own experiences growing up in a patriarchal family environment, where anger was seen as destructive and something to be feared. Through Internal Family Systems Therapy, Janice learned to reconnect with her anger, recognising it as a valid emotion carrying important messages about unmet needs and boundaries.
She discusses how this therapeutic approach helped her to understand the protective mechanisms she developed to cope with anger and how she learned to listen to and validate these feelings. Janice also explores the broader cultural and systemic factors that influence our perceptions of anger, emphasising the importance of acknowledging these influences in our healing journeys.
By sharing her story, she hopes to inspire others to reconsider their relationship with anger and to view it as a powerful tool for setting boundaries and advocating for oneself. This episode is a heartfelt invitation to explore the ways in which we can befriend our emotions, rather than fear them. So, how do you relate to your own anger? And what might it be trying to tell you?