Dr Gabor Maté: How to Release Anger You've Held Since Childhood

When someone crosses your boundaries, why do you freeze or laugh uncomfortably instead of defending yourself? In this conversation, Dr. Gabor Maté explains the vital difference between healthy anger and suppressed rage. Discover how childhood survival mechanisms rewire your nervous system to swallow anger, why that trapped emotion erupts as uncontrollable rage decades later, and the somatic steps to safely feel, process, and release it. Timestamps: 00:00 - The Difference Between Healthy Anger and Suppressed Rage 00:30 - The Mammalian Brain & The Biological Purpose of Anger 01:25 - How Childhood Survival Forces You to Suppress Boundary Defense 02:05 - Why Trapped Anger Becomes an Emotional Volcano in Adulthood 02:58 - How to Somatically Experience & Process Rage (The RAIN Method) 04:07 - Why You Freeze and Laugh Nervously When Boundaries Are Violated 05:22 - Rewiring Your Default Response to Protect Yourself Today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 RECOMMENDED BOOKS & RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The Myth of Normal — Dr. Gabor Maté: https://amzn.to/3PJgf3G • The Body Keeps the Score — Dr. Bessel van der Kolk: https://amzn.to/45cRl46 • Healing Trauma — Dr. Peter Levine: https://amzn.to/3TKjlYs 🌱 My Book — Reclaiming You: https://mybook.to/YourInnerChild 🎧 Prefer listening? Try Audible: https://amzn.to/4wFrs4 💙 Looking for Online Therapy? https://onlinetherapy.go2cloud.org/SHEL 🧠 For Licensed U.S. Therapists (Work Online): https://go.online-therapy.com/SHoL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMERS & CREDITS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. I may also earn commissions from other qualifying referrals. Thank you for supporting this channel. Fair Use & Copyright Disclaimer: This video contains material used for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research under Section 107 of the US Copyright Act (Fair Use). All rights and credits belong to their respective owners.