Hi Reader,

A few years ago I was preparing to host a private retreat for a client in Glastonbury. I needed someone who really knew the land — the sacred spaces, the ceremony, the energy of that place. I found Erika Tourell online. She had no idea who I was, but she showed up with so much generosity and wisdom that I never forgot her.

I followed her work from that moment. And every time she appeared — holding a moon circle, guiding a somatic session, writing about grief or rage or what it means to truly come home to yourself — I thought: she needs to be on this podcast.

What I didn't expect was the topic we'd land on. Or how much I'd need to hear it myself.

Have you ever swallowed your anger to keep the peace?

Felt rage rise in your body and immediately tried to push it back down?

Told yourself, "I'm not an angry person. I don't do that."

This episode is for you.

Because here's what Erika taught me: that anger isn't the problem. Suppressing it is. When we shut down our rage, we don't just lose the anger — we lose the creativity, the aliveness, the life force that comes with it. It festers. It shows up as illness, resentment, exhaustion, creative paralysis. And it disconnects us from our calling.

As she says: "There's so much power in our rage and anger. And that's the thing that we want to truly harness because I think our sacred rage is also connected to our sexuality."

In this conversation Erika shares her own journey — nearly 40 years of healing work, her reckoning with trauma and menopause, and the moment she realized that healing isn't just personal, it's political. She talks about where anger lives in the body (the liver, the jaw, the pelvic floor), how to move it through your system, and how to channel it into your purpose rather than let it quietly destroy you from the inside.

This is one of those episodes I think you'll be thinking about for days.

🎧 Listen here:

• Show Notes: Read Here​
• Spotify: Listen Here​
• Apple Podcasts: Listen Here​

Hit reply and tell me — what do you do with your anger? Do you let yourself feel it, or does it tend to get buried?

With love,

Amanda

P.S. If someone in your world has been carrying a lot of rage lately and doesn't know what to do with it — please share this with them. It might be exactly what they need.