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Book Club: Boundaries, Anger, and Forgiveness (Ch. 12, Women Who Run With the Wolves)

April 20, 2021 Emma Veritas and Caitlin Bosshart Season 1 Episode 30
Full Heart Free Voice Podcast: reading inspiring books, one chapter at a time
Book Club: Boundaries, Anger, and Forgiveness (Ch. 12, Women Who Run With the Wolves)
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This is our Book Club episode where we discuss a chapter from our current book choice: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In this episode, we discuss chapter 12: "Marking Territory: the boundaries of rage and forgiveness”.

Summary:

This chapter is an exploration of anger. It focuses on learning how to use rage as a teacher, and it looks at how forgiveness can be a healing process for when you are stuck in old rage. This episode is for you if you want to learn more about anger and how to work with it. It’s for you if you want to use your anger as a powerful emotion to help you create boundaries and transformation in your life or in the world. It’s also for you if you ever find yourself stuck in old resentment, replaying tapes of grievances, and feeling like this no longer serves you or helps you to develop personally or to create new things.

In this episode we discuss:

  • The difference between clean anger and old rage
  • How to use anger as a teacher to create boundaries
  • How to transform old rage through forgiveness

Resources mentioned in the episode

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Attributions:

Theme music: Wally Ingram, Stevie Blacke and Tom Freund. You heard portions of their tracks “Shine a Light” and “Udu ULove” from their record Spadé.

Fairy tale music. Keven MacLeod, found on YouTube Studio

Original cover art created by: Caitlin Bosshart

Disclaimer

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Chapter synopsis
Beginning of chapter discussion
Caitlin on anger as a teacher
Emma on the victim-persecutor triangle
What Emma and Caitlin are up to
Emma on forgiveness being a complicated word
Caitlin on the shades of gray of forgiveness
Quotes