q: what do you do with righteous anger?
I feel like someone has wronged me out of their misguided righteousness. I now feel (righteously) that they have wronged me, and want to act...
I see that this is a loop, but I still feel like I deserve to be angry. any ideas?
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i like to get clear on what the anger is protecting. there's also often grief around the feeling wronged to look for. you can talk to an imaginary version of the other person. then decide after all that if there's something you'd like to say for reals
also worth looking for resonances from past hurts, when have i felt hurt like this before, what feels unresolved about that, etc.
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oof. thanks for this, QC, it brought up a lot.
specifically asking "who is this protecting" brings up both someone who was hurt, and also another version of myself who is protecting that someone.
righteousness feels like a younger self, protecting an even younger self
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