The Sacred Fire: Rage, Trapped Emotions & the Path to Wholeness

There’s a fire we’ve been taught to fear — a heat inside the body, ancient and wild, that most of us learned to bury before we ever understood what it really was:

Rage.

We’re told it’s dangerous. Unbecoming. Too much. So instead, we swallow it. We wrap it in layers of shame and silence. We smile when we want to scream. We numb when we want to howl.

And that fire? It doesn’t disappear. It waits. It tightens. It becomes tension in the jaw, a knot in the gut, a tremble in the hands, a hidden grief we can’t name. But rage — true, sacred rage — is not the enemy. It is a messenger, a guardian of boundaries, and a fierce advocate for what is just and what has been violated.

Most of us were never given safe spaces to feel the full spectrum of our emotions, especially the ones that threaten to disrupt the status quo. And so the body becomes the vault. Locked tight with years, even lifetimes, of unfelt fury, injustice, heartbreak, and grief. Rage becomes trapped. Not because it’s wrong, but because we were conditioned to believe we were.

This trapped energy can manifest in a thousand silent ways — chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, autoimmune responses, overthinking, addiction, burnout. It leaks out in sarcasm, passive aggression, martyrdom, or explosive outbursts we later regret. It is the residue of unmetabolized experience.

But here’s the radical, liberating truth:

You don’t need to be afraid of your rage. You need to meet it. Listen to it. Let it move through you — not at others, but with conscious intention, breath, and reverence.

There’s a reason animals in the wild shake after trauma. The body knows how to discharge what the mind can’t make sense of. Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s holding stories — stories that want to be witnessed, honored, and completed. And when you do? When you let that sacred fire move through your tissues, your breath, your bones — something miraculous happens.

The rage transforms.

It softens. It alchemizes into clarity, power, and sovereignty. You reclaim pieces of yourself that got frozen in time. You begin to feel safe in your own body again. Not because everything is perfect, but because you're no longer abandoning your truth to make others comfortable.

This work is not performative. It’s cellular. It’s ancestral. It’s revolutionary.

You do it for yourself, yes — but also for the lineage that came before you and the ones yet to come. Every time you choose to feel instead of flee, to breathe instead of brace, you rewrite the script.

So if there’s rage in your body… good. That means there’s life! There’s a pulse. There’s a sacred fire still burning inside of you that refuses to be extinguished.

Your job isn’t to extinguish it.

Your job is to learn how to tend it.

To become the kind of vessel that can hold that intensity without being overtaken by it. To let it carve you open so something new can emerge.

This is how we heal — not by pretending we’re fine, but by honoring what’s been hiding in the dark, and letting it come home.

You’re not too much. You’ve just been holding too much, alone, for too long.

It’s time to let it move.

If you'd like to explore sacred rage a bit further, you are invited to check out my mini-course: Sacred Rage, Tender Power. It is geared toward a feminine audience but the foundational information is applicable to all, independent of gender.