What Is Anger Trying to Tell You?
Anger is powerful. It can tighten the body, change posture, influence decisions, and shape the way we move and respond. Yet anger is not necessarily something to suppress. What if it is information?
In Episode 6 of Emotions & Healing, Dr. Michelle Greenwell is joined by Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, and Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, to explore the Wood Element through the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians.
The Wood Element: Growth, Vision and Direction
Wood energy is associated with growth, expansion, planning, vision, decision-making, and forward movement. When balanced, we may feel clear, decisive, motivated, and flexible. When challenged, we may experience irritability, frustration, resentment, impulsive decisions, indecision, stagnation, or the feeling that we cannot move forward.
Liver and Gall Bladder: Flow and Choice
Within Five Element Theory, the Liver is associated with the smooth flow of energy, vision, planning, and emotional regulation. The Gall Bladder is connected with decision-making, courage, and action. Together they offer a useful framework for exploring what happens when we feel blocked, pushed, uncertain, or unable to choose a direction.
Through Touch for Health®, this episode also explores the Anterior Deltoid, Popliteus, Pectoralis Sternal, and Rhomboid muscle relationships and how emotional stress may be reflected through posture, coordination, movement, performance, and recovery.
From Frustration to Purposeful Action
Kate brings her experience with athletes, performers, and professionals to explore how frustration and anger can influence decision-making, performance, recovery, and confidence. Denise brings decades of experience in muscle monitoring, meridian balancing, and movement education to help us recognize how emotional stress may be reflected in the body.
The goal is not to label an emotion as good or bad. Instead, we can ask what the emotion may be pointing toward. Perhaps frustration tells us something needs to move. Perhaps resentment reveals something that needs to be acknowledged. Perhaps anger illuminates something we value deeply.
When we listen rather than immediately react, we create the possibility of transforming frustration into movement, resentment into clarity, and anger into purposeful direction.
Tea with Intentions: Releasing the Warrior
Our Tea with Intentions for the Wood Element is Releasing the Warrior from the Cape Breton Tea Company, chosen to accompany the transformation of anger into purposeful action.
Dandelion — Resilience and Release. Dandelion invites us to consider resilience, clearing, and release, reminding us that letting go of stored frustration can create room for a new direction.
Juniper Berry — Protection and Clarity. Juniper Berry invites protection, clarity, and refinement of direction. It reminds us that moving forward does not need to come from force.
Together, these herbs offer the central reflection from this episode: strength is not about force—it is about clarity, direction, and release.
As you sip, consider: Where am I holding tension? Where am I pushing too hard—or not moving at all?
Practical Awareness for Everyday Life
Wood invites us to notice how we respond when plans change, decisions feel difficult, or frustration begins to build. What happens to your breath? Do your shoulders tighten? Does your movement become forceful or hesitant? Do you become more impulsive, or do you stop moving forward altogether?
These observations are opportunities to become more familiar with your own patterns. Touch for Health® and BioEnergetic Wellness provide practical ways to explore movement, meridian tracing, muscle monitoring, intention, and simple balancing techniques while remaining curious about what changes.
Meet Kate Montgomery and Denise Cambiotti
Kate Montgomery, HHP, ND, is a Holistic Health Practitioner, Naturopathic Doctor, Certified Sports Massage Therapist, BioEnergetic Wellness Professional, and author. With a background in respiratory therapy and decades of experience working with athletes, performers, and professionals, Kate brings practical insight into emotional resilience, performance, movement, and recovery.
Denise Cambiotti, HCD, CIH BioEW, is a BioEnergetic Wellness educator and founder of Muscle Tuners International. Through Touch for Health®, muscle monitoring, meridian balancing, and movement education, Denise helps people understand how emotional stress can influence posture, movement, and wellbeing.
Reflection for the Week
Where in your life are you pushing too hard? Where might you need to soften, redirect, or release?
Continue Your Wellness Journey
Explore the Movement Mastery Program under the Wellness Training tab at GreenwellCenter.com to deepen your understanding of integrated movement assessment, posture, and self-awareness.
Join the Artfilled Wellness Retreat to experience movement, music, creativity, nature, Tea with Intentions, and BioEnergetic Wellness in an immersive setting.
Or begin developing practical skills through Touch for Health® Level 1, learning accessible approaches to muscle monitoring, meridians, movement, goal setting, and emotional balance.
Anger is not something to suppress. It is a signal. When we listen to the signal rather than react to it, we create the possibility for clarity, movement, and purposeful change.