Part 1: Suppressed Anger - The Silent Fire

Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions, especially for women and trauma survivors. We’re conditioned to avoid it, apologize for it, or turn it inward. Anger is not a flaw; it is sacred life force, a fire, moving through us with purpose. It brings clarity, revealing what feels misaligned or unsafe, and it rises as the energy that protects, defines, and honors our boundaries. When we learn to understand its message rather than silence it, anger becomes a powerful guide back to truth. It becomes a fire that burns with us all. It is the fire that says:

• This is not okay.

• My needs matter.

• I deserve better.

• Something is out of alignment.

When anger is honored, it becomes power. When anger is suppressed, it becomes pain.

Anger is a life force that we deny ourselves. Anger is raw, direct, and honest. It’s the spark in your chest that refuses to let you shrink, the pulse that rises when something violates your truth. Unlike the heaviness of fear or the collapse of shame, anger is movement. It activates the body, sharpens the mind, and awakens the parts of you that are tired of being quiet, overlooked, or dismissed.

This life force doesn’t come to make you reckless; it comes to make you real. It floods your system with the energy you need to speak up, to step away, or to take action and stop what is harming you. Anger reminds you that you are alive, that you deserve to be safe, and that your needs, feelings, and boundaries matter.

When you stop treating anger as a defect and start seeing it as sacred energy, something shifts. You begin to recognize it as the fuel that powers self-protection, transformation, and truth. Anger is your internal uprising—the life force that pushes you toward a life that actually honors who you are.

What Happens When Anger Is Pushed Down

The statement, “what the mind forgets the body remembers.”  That is true when it comes to anger too.

Anger doesn’t disappear when suppressed, it turns inward, finding a home in the body and mind. Stored anger can show up as chronic tension in the jaw, throat, shoulders, or ribs. It can cause digestive issues and gut inflammation, elevated heart strain, or immune depletion from ongoing stress. It can also surface as resentment, burnout, numbness, or emotional shutdown. Your body remembers what you don’t express.

The longer anger goes unacknowledged, the more it transforms into exhaustion, self-doubt, or mysterious physical symptoms that seem to have no medical explanation. In essence, unexpressed anger is energy that wants to move—ignored, it turns against you instead of serving its sacred purpose.

Energetic Impact on the Chakra System

What are some signs of how anger energetically affects the chakra system? Anger affects each chakra point differently which can lead to long term physical issues if it is not addressed or a blockage removed.

Solar Plexus — Your Power Center

Suppressed anger dims your personal authority. This is where your worth, autonomy, and inner fire reside.

Signs of blockage:

• low confidence

• indecision

• chronic self-doubt

• difficulty asserting yourself

  
  

Throat — Your Voice

When anger is swallowed, the throat constricts.

Signs of blockage:

• fear of speaking up

• people-pleasing

• jaw tension

• chronic silence or self-censorship

  
  

Heart — Your Emotional Core

When anger is unexpressed, the heart becomes heavy.

Signs of imbalance:

• sadness

• numbness

• emotional shutdown

• resentment

• difficulty giving or receiving love

Releasing anger is not losing your heart — it’s freeing it.

Practices to Release Suppressed Anger (Safely & Soulfully)

 Within you burns a quiet fire, sometimes fierce, sometimes smoldering, always alive. When it lingers unseen, it can weigh on your body, cloud your mind, and hush your voice. These practices - breath, sound, movement, and ritual- invite that fire to move, to speak, to transform. Whisper, exhale, shake, and honor what is within. This is not about rage; it is about tending your inner flame, freeing what has been held, and returning to yourself lighter, brighter, and fully present.

1. Breathwork for Clearing Heat

Gentle fire-breath, lion’s breath, or deep exhalations help move stagnant energy and soften internal pressure.

Lion’s Breath (Simhasana) – Example

1. Sit tall, either on your knees, cross-legged, or in a chair.

2. Inhale deeply through your nose, filling your belly and chest.

3. As you exhale, open your mouth wide, stick out your tongue, and let the breath rush out with a strong haaa sound.

4. Let your face soften afterward.

5. Repeat 3–5 rounds, or until you feel heat, release, or a softening inside.

   
   

Lion’s breath helps melt internal pressure, release heat, and create space for emotional release, especially anger, frustration, or stuck energy.

2. Primal Sound Release

Sound helps open what silence has stored.

Try the following:

• Whispering “no” over and over with an intent in your mind. For example, you really did not want to work late but you said yes when you should have said no. In your mind replay that moment and, in your mind, instead of saying yes, say NO. Say it over and over again until it feels comfortable.

• Releasing sound into a pillow. Screaming into a pillow is one of the best ways to release anger safely. When you are screaming imagine a particular moment, person or event that you are angry at.

Even subtle sound unlocks deep release.

3. Movement

Somatic movement is one of the best ways to release stuck energy – especially anger. Below are a few ideas to use to release that anger.

• Dance – Put on a song that makes the anger boil inside of you and just begin to move. With no thought, no agenda, and like no one is watching you. If you feel like screaming while you do it, DO IT. It is such a euphoric feeling to release.

• Beat something – Sounds strange but it is a great release. Grab a pillow and just start hitting the couch, the bed, or anything. Just hit it till you have no more energy inside of you.

• Break something – Go to your local Rage Room and just start breaking things. It is in a safe and monitoring environment. While you are hitting that glass, hit it with intent.

  
  

4. Ritual Release

Create sacred space to honor your inner fire.

• Write your anger on a piece of paper then burn the paper, releasing your anger into the universe.

• While placing your hands on your belly and say “I hear you”. Acknowledging the anger inside, acknowledges you as well. Allow it to be see and heard.

  
  

This is not about rage. It’s about liberation.

Your Anger Is Not Too Much — It’s Asking to Be Heard

When anger is met with intention, it becomes alchemy.

It softens into:

• Clarity that pierces through confusion.• Boundaries that honor your sacred space.• Courage that rises from your deep center.• Self-respect that cannot be shaken.• Alignment with the truth of your spirit.

To honor your anger is to honor the voice of your soul. It is the moment you return to yourself, unafraid and unwavering.

This is where healing begins, in the holy fire that purifies, awakens, and leads you home.