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What if anger wasn’t something to fear or suppress—but a vital signal from your body calling for truth, boundaries, and healing? In this powerful episode of the ANEW Insight Podcast, Dr. Supatra Tovar sits down with psychotherapist, speaker, and anger expert Bronwyn Schweigerdt to explore the surprising connection between suppressed anger, depression, and physical health.

Bronwyn’s groundbreaking work challenges the myth of the “angry person” and reframes anger as an essential, healthy emotion that protects us from self-betrayal. Drawing from her own personal journey through severe depression, disordered eating, and psychosomatic illness, she reveals how unprocessed emotions—especially rage, shame, and betrayal—can manifest in the body, leading to anxiety, autoimmune conditions, and even chronic disease.

Together, Dr. Tovar and Bronwyn dig into:

• The difference between healthy anger and reactive anger—and why knowing the distinction can change your relationships.
• How suppressed emotions show up in the body as depression, panic attacks, or physiological illness.
• Why women are often conditioned to silence their anger, while men may be encouraged to externalize it.
• The science of alexithymia (difficulty naming emotions) and its connection to autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
• Real-world tools for integrating past trauma, honoring anger, and transforming triggers into self-awareness.
• How unresolved attachment wounds from childhood often resurface in adult relationships—and how to break the cycle.
  

Bronwyn shares her own stories of depression linked to unacknowledged anger and offers practical methods for emotional integration. From guided inner child exercises to embodied self-reflection, she shows that healing doesn’t come from avoiding anger, but from listening to it.

Dr. Tovar and Bronwyn also discuss why therapy is essential for uncovering hidden emotional patterns, how unprocessed anger creates physiological stress through elevated cortisol, and why repressed emotions are often at the root of mental health struggles.

This episode will leave you rethinking everything you thought you knew about anger—and empower you to embrace it as a force for growth, authenticity, and connection.

🔑 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why anger is not a character flaw, but a healthy boundary signal.
• The dangers of reactive anger vs. the power of embodied, healthy anger.
• How unprocessed emotions can fuel depression, anxiety, autoimmune disorders, and even cancer risk.
• Practical tools for emotional integration and healing from triggers.
• How attachment wounds from childhood shape adult relationships—and how to break free.
  

🕒 Timestamps
00:00 – Welcome & introduction to Bronwyn Schweigerdt
02:00 – From nutrition to psychotherapy: Bronwyn’s personal journey
05:00 – Depression, disordered eating & the cost of suppressed anger
09:00 – Anger as protecti

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