What Is My Anger Trying to Tell Me? | Anger as Messenger, Not Enemy
One Question with Leah Farmer by Leah Farmer
Episode notes
What if anger isn't a lapse in your composure — but one of the most reliable signals you have about what you value? This week's episode opens with the new Netflix documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet, and the justified rage so many of us have felt watching it, as the starting point for a deeper question: what is my anger actually trying to tell me?
Drawing on Aristotle's ethics of anger, Myisha Cherry's philosophy of clean rage (building on Audre Lorde's landmark 1981 speech), and modern emotion research that treats anger as a moral signal, Leah explores how the emotion we're most often told to suppress can be our clearest compass toward what we truly love. This episode is an invitation to stop running from your anger — and start listening to what it's trying to name.