Healing Rage by Ruth King

Author:Ruth King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

When you have rested enough, light a candle, take several deep breaths, and take a few moments to write about this experience in your rage journal. As you journal your experiences from your rage release rituals, write down in full detail what you discovered about your rage child. For example, what did she feel like inside your body? What did she feel like coming out of your body? Describe her size, shape, taste, smell, color, gender, and age. Did she change during your release? What was she saying? What was she doing? What did you discover about her pain? What stories did she tell? What did she want? What was she enraged about? What was she afraid of? What was she ashamed of? Does she have a name? If you were to describe her as an artistic expression, what would it be? Capture these reflections and any other key details about your experience in your rage journal as clearly and in as much detail as possible.

After your ritual, expect to feel a bit vulnerable and tender. Try to arrange things so that you have some time alone, without needing to explain yourself or focus too much on the needs of others. Also, be patient with the people around you.

Don’t worry if during your ritual you don’t do what you had planned, or you don’t feel what you expected to feel. Edith’s release was only tears. Barbara mumbled like an infant and could not speak words. Deborah never stopped screaming. Alice’s ritual was full of elaborate goddess-like gestures, all in silence. Many women wonder if they have done it right, but there is no right way or right outcome from a release. Patricia shares:

I really didn’t buy into all this. I didn’t think for one minute that if I followed these suggestions I’d actually have a release of rage. Was I surprised! I started off being upset about how silenced and stuck I felt in my dead-end job. I walked around in my room cursing and blaming folks at work. I then started stomping and I found my lips mimicking my mother who used to say to me as a child: “The military takes good care of us so shut up and be grateful!” And before I knew it, I was raging at her and every other SOB who felt they had a right to silence me. And it felt great! Afterward, I felt lighthearted and tired, but also clear. I regained the strength I needed to defend myself. When I later read what I had written in my journal, I realized that my job was similar to my childhood, only this time, I could complain, and I could also leave. I’ve always known this, but now I feel this truth in my body and can act on it.

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