Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible

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Few recognise the enormous power of rage as a vehicle for healing or possess the skillful means to transform rage from a destructive to a life affirming resource. Rage is fuel, the source of our empowerment. When we embrace this brilliance respectfully, rage teaches us how to live, love and heal. Ruth King has devoted her career to exploring the subtle varieties of rage, while challenging the notion that rage is an "evil" emotion that must be eradicated. In HEALING RAGE, she gives all readers access to her pioneering, breakthrough programme, which has already changed thousands of lives through workshops. Rage, King explains that rage is not to be understood as a useless emotion but as clarity and untapped fuel. Embraced with compassion, the energy trapped in rage becomes an intimate and empathic teacher offering balance, integrity and inner peace to your healing journey, relationships and service. Many of us go through our lives maintaining a good front. We may have all of the trappings - good job, higher education and material gain - yet we have an inherent discontent with our lives that won't go away. Written for every woman-ranging from counselors and their patients to those who may not realise that rage is at the root of their unhappiness and have just begun to seek new paths of hope - HEALING RAGE is a unique invitation for transformation.

Ruth King, MA, is president of Bridges, Branches & Braids, an organization devoted to working with negative emotions in positive ways, notably the Celebration of Rage and Generational Healing retreats, and the audio CD Soothing the Inner Flames of Rage-Meditations that Educate the Heart & Transform the Mind. A respected authority on the topic of rage, she is also a life coach and team-development specialist. Her client list includes Kaiser Permanente, Intel Corporation, and Levi Strauss & Company. King works extensively with managers, counselors, consultants, psychotherapists, educators, trauma workers, practitioners of the healing and expressive arts, spiritual counselors, artists, activists, mothers, and other women and men who influence the lives of others, to transform the emotional body and mind. King works internationally and lives in Berkeley, California. Her website is www.HealingRage.com.

"Here is a book of enormous scope that helps us to become more curious about our rage and better equipped to use it wisely. Ruth King's compassion and generosity of spirit will leave you feeling like she's right there with you on the journey to a fuller and more courageous life." -Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger "This is a book that can change your life." -Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Color Purple "A wonderful, wise and inspiring book. I feel the heartbeat on every page. Ruth's compassion and generosity of spirit will inspire us to do our own homework toward a fuller and more courageous life." -Sue Bender, author of Everyday Scared "Ruth King has done the unthinkable. She has written a book that empowers women to embrace their pain, confusion and rage in a way that opens a pathway to liberation, healing, leadership and vision. This is a powerful, wise and timely message - a brilliant piece of work."-Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money "King has articulated the painful history, patterns, and traps of a raging heart and offers the skillful means for liberation in their very midst. This is revolutionary work. Jack Kornfield, author and co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center "The psychology of our age is characterized by aggression. The antidote is an experiential process that utilizes the energy for healing. This book provides methods for transforming vital energies into positive, creative, life-enhancing endeavors for individuals, institutions, and societies." -Cecile McHardy, Anthropologist and Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University