In season two’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss anger as a stage of grief. Leaning into and allowing the often rejected emotion as an important part of the grieving process is explored as a particular challenge for women in the patriarchy. The two demonstrate the usefulness of songs as a vehicle for healthy expression of rage and conduit for healing.
Features original songs, Mother and Line of Fire in relation to the topic.
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19:33- Katie’s song, Mother
38:28- Karen’s song, Line of Fire
Episode Resources:
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JOURNAL PROMPT: What makes you angry? To the best of your ability, don’t censor yourself! This is a great one to express through motion, through using your voice in not pretty ways, to letting yourself just rant and rave into a voice memo, scream in your car, or big letters across your journal.
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