Dallas Bragg tells people in recovery that suppressed anger often leads to relapse. Instead of bottling it up, write it out, scream, dance, or move your body to let it pass through. Use the energy as fuel for healing rather than a trigger to use again.
If you paused on this reel, this message is for you. It is okay to be angry. You were taught from childhood that it is bad to show anger, to release your emotions. You were told to sit down and shut up, but you have plenty to be angry about. The way you were brought up, the way you keep relapsing, how you were treated by your own culture. It is okay to be angry as long as you lean into the emotion in a way that allows your body to express it. What we tend to do is become overcome by anger. Then we think and behave from a place of anger, which is not in alignment with your true self. Take some time to give yourself permission to feel the anger and validate it, but don't become a victim by turning the anger toward others. Just sit with it. This is such an underrated healing technique in recovery, to allow yourself to feel anger Anger so that it passes through you. Write it down, scream it out, dance it out, whatever you have to do, but use that anger as fuel for your healing instead of a reason to relapse.
