When I Screamed in the Kitchen and Then Pulled Weeds

Last week I dropped a container of food while cleaning out the fridge. It hit the floor, spilled everywhere, and I just screamed.

I was home alone. My daughter wasn’t there. There was no one to hear it but me and the leftovers.

It wasn’t about the food.

It was about the stress. The pressure. The loneliness. The invisible work of parenting and keeping a home and trying to heal and hold it together at the same time.

That scream let something move that needed to move. And I didn’t judge it. I just let it happen.

A little while later, I went outside and started pulling weeds out of my landscaping like my life depended on it. (If you’ve ever rage-cleaned or rage-yard-worked, you get it.)

It helped.

As women, and especially as moms, we’re not really taught how to feel anger. A lot of us learned that it was unsafe—or made us unlovable. We were told to calm down, be quiet, stop overreacting. And now? We hold it all in. Until it leaks out.

What I’ve learned (and what I now help clients with) is that there are safe, supportive ways to feel and release anger—without hurting yourself or anyone else.

You don’t have to be “fine” all the time. You get to feel what’s real. And when you move that energy, you actually make more space for peace, connection, and clarity.

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