Elizabeth Cush on Women & Anger
Everyone feels anger. In this episode of Woman Worriers, host Elizabeth Cush explores being angry, showing anger and why so many women find anger so uncomfortable..
“Angry women are not looked at very fondly, in a positive light, or even as ‘normal’.”
Show Notes:
Anger is a basic human emotion, but many people—especially women—find it uncomfortable to feel angry or express anger. However, we pay a high price for holding those feelings inside. In this episode of the Woman Worriers podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LGPC, a licensed professional therapist and founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., talks about why so many women struggle with showing their anger. She also explains what happens to the body when we repress anger and share some insights from her own journey with this difficult emotion.
Listen and learn:
Definitions of anger
The “upside” of anger and how it can be beneficial
Everyday anger vs. excessive anger
How society stereotypes and demeans angry women
How anger isolates women
Whether men get angry more often than women.
The three root causes of women’s anger
How expressing anger affects working women
How the anger double standard benefits men
How our own biases get in our way
How women’s anger is viewed differently than men’s anger
What chemical changes take place in the brain and body when we’re angry
How repressed anger can literally make us sick
Why expressing anger frightens us
Strategies for expressing anger in a healthy way
Learn More
> “Science of anger: how gender, age and personality shape this emotion” by Hanna Devlin in The Guardian
> Soraya Chemaly’s website
> Soraya Chemaly’s TED Talk on “The power of women’s anger”
> “Anger across the gender divide” by Melissa Dittmann for the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology
> “Can an Angry Woman Get Ahead?: Status Conferral Gender, and Expression of Emotion in the Workplace” by Victoria L. Brescoli and Eric Luis Uhlmann for Harvard Kennedy School’s Gender Action Portal
> How Anger Affects the Brain infographic
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