The Winding Path

12/14/2025

Truth

12/14/2025

"While anger in girls and women is overwhelmingly portrayed as irrational, it is, in fact, completely rational," observes author Soraya Chemaly. Girls’ anger often grows as they reach their teens, because studies show that girls and women are more likely to feel anger about injustice, powerlessness, and other people’s irresponsibility -– all things they confront head on as they approach adulthood. “They begin to see the effects of gender–based double standards that fly in the face of everything they’ve learned so far about their abilities, equality, and potential,” she reflects.

Rather than fighting her own anger, as Chemaly says she did for many years, she now realizes that "it can be controlled, transformed, used. It can be a tool. Anger can inspire art, and anger fuels activism. What if we knew girls could be angry? What if we showed them how to use it? What if we let them know that they weren’t alone?... In dark times, our inner fire glows brightest."

To read more about why it's important to let girls be angry – and how to teach girls to channel their anger productively at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=23651

Soraya Chemaly is the author of the powerful book for adults "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger" at https://www.amightygirl.com/rage-becomes-her

For several excellent books for children and teens on understanding and expressing anger in healthy ways, we recommend "Anger Management Skills Workbook for Kids" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/anger-management-workbook-kids) and "How to Take the GRRR Out of Anger" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/grrr-out-of-anger)

For teens, ages 13 and up, we recommend the guides "The Anger Workbook for Teens" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-anger-workbook-for-teens) and "When Anxiety Makes You Angry" (https://www.amightygirl.com/anxiety-makes-you-angry)

There's also a fantastic card game on anger management for ages 6 to 12 at https://www.amightygirl.com/mad-dragon

For books for kids of all ages on better understanding and managing emotions of all varieties, visit our blog post, "Understanding The Way I Feel: 50 Mighty Girl Books About Managing Emotions,” at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11449

12/14/2025

✨💫⭐️ You’ve got this!

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12/13/2025

Happy Saturday 💕

12/12/2025

It’s not your fault. You don’t deserve this. And a stranger on the internet is thinking of you, rooting for you, hoping things get better soon. 💜

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so many rules.

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suicidal thoughts aren't about wanting to die - they're about wanting the pain to stop. there's a difference, and that difference is where hope lives.

12/11/2025

This time of year can be such a difficult time for so many of us. The holidays, whether you celebrate them or not, are all around us and may seem inescapable. December for those of us in the snowy regions sort of seems quiet in many ways when then snow is a fresh fallen blanket… but December also has a way of turning up the volume on so many things. If you are struggling, and finding the noise of it all overwhelming, please reach out… reach out to someone here on the page, to a friend, to a loved one, to someone safe in your life. If you know someone who may struggle during this time, please PLEASE reach out and check on them!! Anyone be it a family member, a friend or work colleague, even an acquaintance… if they seem distant, or appear off in some way, check in with them. Don’t pressure them to share, but offer to sit with them even if they don’t want to share. Just reaching out and checking on someone can make all the difference in the world. Be kind folks — to yourself and to others. Kindness is FREE!
~Deb 🩷