Angry At The Right Things

Who knew empathy alone can be harmful, while compassion is life-giving? Bronwyn's conversation with psychologist and Duke Professor Dr. Noga Zerubavel enlightens us on the difference, which is vital for everyone with empathy -- not just those in the helping professions. We are empowered how to move toward compassion in practical ways. 
 
Noga’s Compassion Slogans as Micropractices: 
My calm is part of the healing
I meet suffering with steadiness and skill
Empathy is the doorway; compassion is the path.
From absorbing pain to offering care.
Active presence rather than immersion.
Care but don’t carry.
Stay open, stay grounded, move into helping
Compassion acts where empathy aches.
Hold the pain lightly, hold the person steadily.
Let empathy guide action, not paralysis.
Strong back, soft front (Roshi Joan Halifax)
Feel enough to understand; stay grounded enough to help.
I respond to suffering by offering care, support, or help.
Link to Noga's book: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781648484650/integrating-mindfulness-into-psychotherapy-for-trauma/
Noga Zerubavel, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and co-founder of Arise Psychological Wellness and Consulting. She is also Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, where she is involved in clinical education and research. She is author of the book Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy for Trauma. She is the former director of an adult psychotherapy clinic for trauma survivors at Duke, where she led a trauma consultation team and supervised clinical psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and psychiatry residents. Dr. Zerubavel regularly provides trainings for mental health providers, health care providers, and other organizations on topics related to trauma, mindfulness, clinical supervision, as well as issues of sustainable practice (clinician wellness, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, empathic strain, and trauma-informed organizations).

Humans are springs that become blocked when we don't allow painful feelings to flow through us. When we judge our anger, relating to ourselves as our parents related to us, it causes us to invert anger we feel toward others onto ourselves, fueling perfectionism and self-harm.
Bronwyn's CE trainings for mental health professionals: https://www.integrateanger.com/
 

We were designed to blossom, and this starts when we see the goodness within us, becoming for ourselves the mirror we never had. This creates a strong energetic biofield emanating from us, which repels parasitic people and elicits respect from others. The outside mirrors what is within.
Bronwyn's CE trainings for mental health professionals: https://www.integrateanger.com/

Meditation can create dissociation and anxiety, but reflection brings closure to inner chaos by seeking understanding. Ruminating thoughts are evidence our brain is stuck on a problem needing our attention. Our mind is brilliant, and we can learn to work along the grain of it's design.
 
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When we stop judging our painful emotions like anger and hate, but instead seek to understand them, we master them vs. allowing them to master us. Bronwyn gives practical examples of how we can pivot from seeing our emotions and bodily pain as problematic, to recognizing the brilliant wisdom they communicate.
 
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Understanding Toxic People 
Many people whose behavior we don’t understand want us to nurture them with our attention. Once our eyes open to this, everything makes sense, and we have wisdom for how to deal with such people. 
In this therapy session-style episode, Erin serves as an illustration for how we enable toxic people by unwittingly nurturing them. We see how perfectionism is often rooted in children turning their anger at attachment figures onto themselves. In this episode, Bronwyn leads Erin in a differentiation exercise to wake up to her mom – so she can awaken to the truth of her ex-husband, do right by herself. 
 
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ThERINpy podcast with Erin Washington

In an interview with Kristen Boice, from Close the Chapter podcast, Bronwyn shares how to differentiate from our parents and give ourselves the approval we need, moving toward Self-attachment. This allows us to surrender false hope for relationships that harm us, and to live like we matter -- because we do.

Dr. Derrick Hines from the Pain & Performance Podcast shares listener questions for Bronwyn, including:
- The difference between anger & hatred
- How men are more likely to dissociate from feelings than women
- Which emotions are most linked with the use of pornography
 
Bronwyn's CE trainings for mental health practitioners are available at https://www.integrateanger.com/ 

Bronwyn talks with Dr. Ali Najafian Jazi, psychiatrist and psychotherapist about the power of experiencing and expressing all emotions. We discuss how emotions don't dissipate when ignored, but stagnate within our body, making us sick, and how healing and closure comes through listening to our body, and responding with compassion.
Dr. Jazi can be contacted at: www.drjazi.com, and info@drjazi.com

Psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Giroux joins Bronwyn in a rejection of the conventional,  masculine-driven understanding of therapy, based solely on objective metrics, for an embodied and integrated approach. We discuss how to listen to the body, and what it might be communicating during menopause. Caroline allows Bronwyn to lead her in two powerful integration exercises, modeling for listeners. 
 
If you are a therapist or health professional, you can find my CE trainings on this material at Integrateanger.com