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In this article, I want to talk about something I’ve been struggling with myself: anger, especially in the season of spring.

 In traditional Chinese medicine, spring is the season of the liver, and the liver is the home of anger, frustration, and the impulse to move forward in life.
When the liver energy rises, so do these emotions.

The challenge is not that we feel anger.
The challenge is that we were never taught how to handle it.

Why Anger Feels So Difficult

For many of us, anger was not welcome growing up.
We learned:

“Don’t behave like that.”
“Be nice.”
“Smile.”
“Good children don’t get angry.”

So what did we do?
We pushed it down.
We internalized it.
We smiled when we wanted to shout.
We stayed calm when our body was screaming for movement.

But emotions don’t disappear because we ignore them.
If anger isn’t expressed, it settles into the body.
Where there is no flow, water stagnates, and so does energy.
That’s when blockages form, toxins accumulate, and your system feels heavy.

Anger is not the enemy.
Blocked anger is.

So let’s explore healthy, healing ways to work with this powerful energy.

How to Work With Anger

According to the five elements, anger belongs to the Wood element, the element of growth, movement, and bursting through the soil like a sprout.
This is why spring carries so much pressure and momentum.

And that energy can go two ways:
destructive or creative.

Let’s turn it into something that supports your system instead of overwhelming it.

1. Use Anger as Creative Power, Fuel for Manifestation

Anger is movement.
It is fire.
It is pure momentum.

Instead of punching someone (tempting, sometimes), you can ask:

“What can I build with this energy?”
“What can I create?”
“What walls can I walk through now?”

Anger can help you:

• start a project 
• set boundaries! 
• take action 
• break through resistance 
• manifest something you’ve wanted for a long time 

Wood feeds fire, and fire creates transformation.

Use this energy.

2. Release It, Physically, Clearly, Without Shame

If the anger becomes too much, if it overflows and you feel like you’re going to explode, then the body needs movement.

Healthy release looks like:

• dance 
• run or walk fast 
• shake your body 
• scream into a pillow 
• stomp the ground 
• punch the air or even better with a stick 
• wrestle with a friend or your girlfriend (yes, really, we do that) 

Do something physical so the energy doesn’t get stuck.

And remember:
Children know exactly how to do this.
They cry when they need to cry.
They scream when their body needs to release.
They move freely because they haven’t been conditioned out of it.

Let them be your teachers.

3. Clean Up, Outside and Inside

Anger is also a destructive force, but destruction is not always bad.
Destruction clears space.

If you feel the urge to throw everything out, to reorganize your life, to say “no more”, then follow it.

Spring is the perfect time to:

• declutter your home 
• let go of old belongings 
• clean your environment 
• end habits you’ve outgrown 
• create space for new beginnings 

Let the fire burn what no longer belongs in your life.

4. Clean Your Liver, Support Your Body

Spring is the season when the liver is most active, so it needs support.
And the liver loves:

• sour foods (lemon, lime, vinegar, fermented foods) 
• green foods (leafy greens, herbs, green tea) 
• warm lemon water in the morning 
• light, fresh meals 

I start my mornings with warm lemon water, and throughout the day I eat more sour and green foods. It makes a huge difference for clarity, mood, and energy flow.

These help detoxify the liver and move stagnant emotions, but please do this in spring time and give your body and liver the needed rest in winter time.

 

5. Stretch the Liver & Gallbladder Meridians

Every morning I also stretch the meridians that belong to the Wood element:

• Liver meridian (inside the legs) 
• Gallbladder meridian (side of the body) 

You can find simple yoga routines for these, and they help release the physical tension that holds emotional tension in place.

Bringing It All Together

So here it is, a simple, embodied way to work with anger during spring:

1. Use it to create 
2. Release it through movement 
3. Clean up your life 
4. Support your liver with food and detox 
5. Stretch the meridians and keep the energy flowing 

Anger is not a problem.
It’s communication.
It’s energy.
It’s potential.

When we work with it consciously, anger becomes fuel for growth instead of something that burns us from the inside.

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