Beauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode 5

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between the WOOD element in Chinese Medicine and the emotion of anger, featuring a conversation with coach and doula Jessie Harrold.

This episode of the Element Sessions podcast uses the WOOD Element as a jumping off point for a conversation around ANGER. In Chinese Medicine each of the Five Elements has an emotion connected to it, and for the WOOD element (which is also connected to the season of Spring that we are stepping into right now on this side of the globe) the emotion is ANGER. There is no emotion that does not have its place, and there are times when appropriate anger is a really important catalysing force. There is also, from a Chinese Medicine perspective, times when anger and frustration surface because we are out of balance or feeling blocked or prevented from moving forward in the way we need to. My good friend coach, doula and writer Jessie Harrold recently wrote a newsletter all about her own feelings of anger and how she was trying to deal with them and after reading it, I really wanted to dive even deeper and unpack a lot of what she touched on more. Jessie is a coach and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transformations and other rites of passage for over fifteen years. She works one-on-one with women and mothers, facilitates mentorship programs, women’s circles and…

People in this episode

Host: Layla O'Mara

Guest: Jessie Harrold

Topics covered

• anger
• Chinese Medicine
• emotions
• personal transformation
• women's circles
• balance

Keywords

• anger
• Chinese Medicine
• WOOD element
• emotions
• Jessie Harrold
• personal transformation
• women's circles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Becoming Podcast

Books & works: Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage, Project Body Love: my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead

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