Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Unlock Your Inner Peace: Confronting Anger and Finding Yourself #shorts

17 Jul 2026 · 2 min

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In this short therapeutic dialogue, a coach/therapist works with a client who recounts feeling abandoned and unheard during a traumatic birth experience. The client expresses fear of future childbirth and lingering anger toward the medical staff. The therapist uses guided questioning to reframe the event, asking the client to imagine the situation as orchestrated to bring her to a moment of choice. This leads the client to recognize that letting go of anger could open new possibilities. The conversation then shifts to exploring the client’s broader pattern of enmeshment—her need for similarity and external validation to feel safe. By examining how she perceives safety as dependent on others mirroring her, the therapist helps the client see that safety can exist even when others think or act differently, allowing her to feel secure while embracing diversity in relationships, including with her husband. The dialogue ends with the client beginning to feel emotional release and a new perspective on safety and self‑acceptance.

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She said, I was mistreated in the hospital. You know, the nurse abandoned me, the midwife, you know, I was birthing with a midwife and she abandoned me. And I just felt like no one heard me, no one understood me. I said, okay, you know, and she said, I want to give birth again. I just don't want, I just feel like I'm too scared to do it. I just don't want to relive that experience. And I said, I totally understand. And so I said, what would it mean if that experience happened and everybody was actually there to serve you? They were there to bring you to this moment where you were deciding that you wanted things to be different, right? Like, what if all of that was orchestrated so that you could connect with me and I could ask you this question? What would it mean if all that were true and now you're making a different choice? And she said, that would mean I'd have to stop being so angry. And I said, yeah, yeah. And then what would happen if you weren't so angry? And she started crying and just started— some things started coming up about her experience. You know, what would it mean if they didn't hear you and now you can hear yourself and you can see yourself? And where else have you not felt seen or heard? And so we started to really explore the kind of enmeshment that happens where it's like, I needed to look that way in order for me to feel safe, you know, which is huge for us when we're seeking safety. We need similarity. We feel that we need similarity in order to maintain that safety and that security. And so she started to see all the areas in her life where everything, including her husband, could be different from her. He could think differently than her. He could have different preferences and she would still feel safe and secure and she could still, you know, thrive and flourish.