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I had no idea how angry I was - part 2
Updated: Oct 1
There was a time when I genuinely had no idea how angry I was.
I knew I was hurt. I knew I had boundary issues. I knew I was sensitive and that certain things affected me deeply. I had spent years learning about myself and collecting tools to help me navigate life.
But anger?
That was different.
I had learned how to understand what happened to me without necessarily allowing myself to fully feel what it had done to me. I could explain my experiences. I could make sense of other people’s behaviour. I could hold space for everyone else.
What I hadn’t learned was how to recognise what was happening inside me when something crossed a line.
Eventually, my body made that harder to ignore.
This became a much bigger journey than I expected, and honestly, it changed the way I understand emotion, boundaries, the body and healing.
I’ve shared the beginning of that story before, but in this video I go deeper into what happened, how I started recognising my anger in my body, and what that journey taught me about what can happen when emotions we’ve learned to suppress finally have somewhere to go.
It’s personal, but it’s also the foundation of so much of the work I do today.
So rather than give you the whole story here, I’m going to let you hear it from me.
And if anger, powerful emotion, boundaries or the habit of holding everything together is something you’re exploring in your own life, you can also find out more about my Get It Out! working with Anger self paced online course here.
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One love,
Juel
Juel helps people return to the intelligence of their bodies—so they can lead with presence, resilience, and truth.
Her work is somatic, trauma-informed, and rooted in nervous system awareness, guiding real change where the body still carries what the mind has tried to move past.
FAQ
What does it mean to return to yourself?
Returning to yourself is the process of reconnecting with parts of your experience that may have been pushed aside through adaptation, survival, conditioning, or the demands of everyday life. It is not about becoming someone new, but about deepening your relationship with who you already are beneath habitual patterns and protective strategies.
How does the nervous system affect personal growth?
The nervous system shapes how we perceive safety, connection, stress, and possibility. Many of the patterns that influence our behaviour are not conscious decisions but embodied adaptations developed over time. Personal growth often involves becoming aware of these patterns and creating new experiences that support greater flexibility and choice.
What is embodiment?
Embodiment is the practice of being in relationship with your lived experience through the body. Rather than relating to life only through thoughts and analysis, embodiment includes sensation, emotion, breath, movement, and presence as sources of information and wisdom.
Why is awareness not always enough to create change?
Awareness can help us understand a pattern, but understanding alone does not necessarily transform it. Many habits, fears, and protective responses live within the nervous system. Sustainable change often requires practice, repetition, relationship, and embodied experience so that the body can learn something new.
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