Episode 183: What About Anger?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We asked, you answered! Of all emotions, anger might be the least acceptable for Latter-day Saint women. Many of us are not comfortable being around it, expressing it, talking about it, or even feeling it. But when we choose silence over healthy dialogue, what’s the toll on our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being? In Episode 183, Cynthia and Susan share listener voicemails about anger. Can we create space in our church culture for women to both experience and express this natural response?

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0:00.0	I only have one thing to say after Rachel's voicemail and that is wisdom.
0:11.1	And I have one thing to say about it too and also empowerment.
0:15.0	Ah, I can't love it enough.
0:17.0	Yeah, same.
0:19.0	The idea of Latter-day Saint women learning to grab hold of their anger, to empower them, to do things
0:27.3	like set boundaries and redefine their roles, that's thrilling to me.
0:32.3	That's incredible.
0:36.0	Hello, I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:38.0	And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:40.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:42.0	We are women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:44.8	And the title of this week's episode is, what about anger?
0:51.0	What about anger, Cynthia? We have come to the time finally. If we're in season 8, we've finally come to the time, or we're going to have another anger episode.
1:00.0	Yeah, it's true. Yeah, we had it way back in season one, episode 43.
1:05.0	No, it would have been season two or possibly three, I think.
1:09.0	Oh, you're right, yeah.
1:10.0	Episode 43 would have been way later, not season one, and we called that episode
1:15.1	women are not Switzerland because we're not neutral. We have actual feelings that lean one way or the other,
1:22.0	regardless of what some maybe people think in the church like
1:25.9	we shouldn't but we do we have all kinds of complicated feelings and anger is one of them. We do but a lot of us aren't that good at showing it Cynthia or don't
1:37.3	feel a lot of space to show it which brings me to my first question that I want to
1:41.9	kick off introducing this episode with which
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