Our chronic ill health is evidence that history has not emancipated us. Women still cannot recognise or permit their own rage. Micro and macro injustices are woven through our personal narratives, and we wear their imprint on our bodies and minds. This book is an urgent call to arms to identify these feelings and channel them for good. Before they destroy us.
What if you aren't depressed?
What if you don't have chronic fatigue?
What if you are just... angry?
What if a lifetime of being told to repress anger, hide it away and fear it, has shown up in your body in a myriad of ways you can't control? As a woman, when was the last time you were allowed to be truly angry? Have you ever?
The answer to this, argues Jennifer Cox, is never. Women are never allowed to really express their anger, and it is making us all mad. From toddlerdom when girls are conditioned to be 'good' and not make a fuss, to the sandwich years of midlife when the burden of myriad responsibilities is overwhelming, women's anger is hidden, repressed and toxic.
This book will show you where it is hiding and how to let it out.
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Jennifer Cox trained as a forensic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, and has a Masters in Neuroscience. Jennifer has an extensive international psychotherapy practice based in London, specialising in the experience of the female condition.
In 2024, she published Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage Is Hiding And How To Let It Out, which won The Times and Sunday Times Best Self-Help Book of the Year. She co-hosts the Women Are Mad podcast, a magnet for high profile guests from Elif Shafak to Jameela Jamil to Sophie Ellis Bextor, Kathy Lette and Nina Stibbe, as well as Philippa Perry, Stella Creasy, Hayley Morris and Jess Phillips MP. Jennifer's new spin-off podcast, Between The Lines: Writers On The Couch launches onto the WAM platform in the new year, and her documentary series - based on the themes of this book and Women Are Angry - is currently in development with Brian Cox's BBC producer. She is also involved in a TV project, co-hosting with writer and campaigner Jess Davies entitled Adolescence: A Year On, What's Changed? with the team behind Idris Elba's knife crime and Liz Carr's assisted suicide documentaries.
Jennifer is a regular contributor to both print and broadcast press, with weekly requests from diverse sources for both her social commentary and practical life hacks. She's also becoming firmly established on the speaking circuit, appearing this autumn at both the Forbes Power Women's Summit in Belgrade and the Exhale Festival alongside Julia Samuel, Donna Ashworth and David Larbi. She's also been invited to host her own Seed Talk in London, which is going ahead in November.